The aim of the course is to gain knowledge in the field of solid waste management resulting from metallurgical, mining and energy activity.
- Introductory definitions – Categories of solid industrial waste (from metallurgical, mining and energy activity) – Principles of solid industrial and hazardous waste management.
- Environmental characterization of solid industrial waste: European and national institutional framework-European waste list- Tests to determine major physical-geotechnical and geochemical parameters-Evaluation of hazardous properties of waste-Classification.
- Environmental risk assessment from solid industrial waste facilities (definitions, methodology, identification, risk analysis and assessment).
- Industrial and hazardous waste management methods, including underground hazardous waste disposal
- Management of tailings: Characteristics of tailings depending on the type of ore- Tailings dam integrity failure – Improvement of physical and geochemical stability of disposal sites (treatment of tailings, bottom liners and covers) -Methods of waste utilization.
- Management of pyrometallurgical waste (slag, dust, etc.): Recycling / recovery and disposal methods.
- Hydrometallurgical solid waste management: Characteristics-Stabilization methods-Recycling / recovery and disposal methods.
- Economics of industrial and hazardous waste management
