Waste Treatment
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sergiy Antonyuk
Description
The growing mountains of waste and the increasing scarcity of natural resources rank among the greatest challenges of our time. Every single day, more than 6.3 million tons of waste are generated worldwide, yet only a fraction is properly treated or recycled. The rest pollutes soil, water, and air, spreading across the globe and shaping one of humanity’s most urgent problems.
This course takes you on a journey through the fundamentals and technology of waste treatment. You will explore how waste is created along the entire value chain – from production to consumption – and discover cutting-edge methods to recover valuable materials and return them to the cycle. With a focus on mechanical and thermo-chemical recycling, the course highlights how modern engineering can turn waste into resources.
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Sergiy Antonyuk received his PhD in 2004 from the National Technical University of Kyiv in the field of mechanical recycling and preparation of waste for pyrolysis. His research focuses on the development and optimization of mechanical processes for recovering valuable materials from solid and liquid waste. He currently leads the DFG Research Training Group “Resource Wastewater – Recovery of Valuable Components Using Phosphorus as an Example”.
Syllabus
- Introduction: Waste Generation and Treatment
- Current situation in Germany, the EU, and worldwide
- Waste as a global challenge: historical development, causes, and treatment difficulties - Fundamentals of Waste Management
- Sources, composition, and classification of waste
- Political, legal, and regulatory frameworks - Treatment of Hazardous and Radioactive Waste
- Principles of handling hazardous waste
- Case studies: Chernobyl and Fukushima - Resource Recovery through Mechanical Recycling Technologies
- Sorting methods and facilities
- Material detection and separation using NIR and X-ray sensors
- Selective grinding and extrusion of waste
- Recycling of plastics, packaging, batteries, paper, wastewater, tires, etc. - Thermal Waste Treatment
- Fundamentals of combustion, pyrolysis, and combined processes
- Calculation and design of grate furnaces and fluidized bed systems - Special Topics in Waste Treatment
- Seminar series with students
- Discussion of current research results and practical case studies
Contact / Tutor:
Additional information:
- Number of SWS: 2
- Number of ECTS Credits: 3
- Course number: MV-MVT-86458-V-4
- Language: german / english
- Waste treatment II in KIS
- Registration for the course: Add the course to your calendar in the KIS Office. The link for the online lecture will be published via this registration. The access data for the OLAT course will be given in the first lecture. Link to the KIS Office: office.kis.uni-kl.de
- Examination Waste treatment II: oral examination by arrangement in the course area
Course documents:
The lecture Waste treatment II is available online via the learning platform OLAT.
OLAT Link: https://olat.vcrp.de/url/RepositoryEntry/4548625221
Dates:
| Lecture: | Mon. | 11:45 - 13:15 | Room | 44-466 |
Further dates will be published on OLAT.
Literature:
- A.I. Urban, B. Bilitewski: Thermische Verfahren in der Abfallwirtschaft, Springer Verlag
- R. Scholz, H. Beckmann, F. Schulenburg: Abfallbehandlung in thermischen Verfahren, B.G. Teubner Verlag
- Bernd Bilitewski, Georg Härdtle: Abfallwirtschaft, Springer Verlag, 2013
- Martin Kranert, Klaus Cord-Landwehr: Einführung in die Abfallwirtschaft, Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2010
- Ulrich Förstner: Umweltschutztechnik, Springer, 2012
- Hans Martens, Daniel Goldmann: Recyclingtechnik, Fachbuch für Lehre und Praxis. Wiesbaden, Springer Fachmedien WiesbadenImprint: Springer Vieweg, 2016