Intended learning outcomes
The curricular unit (CU) of WMMR aims to give students knowledge concerning:
- waste management, covering the entire waste life cycle, in the technological, economic, regulatory and industrial aspects;
- collection management, transportation and mechanical, chemical and biological treatments, design and implementation of management tasks to minimize environmental, economic and social costs;
- elimination and final disposal of waste through thermal treatment and landfill;
- mass and energy balances of treatment plants;
- material resource management.
After approval the students should be able to: conceptualize and evaluate physical, chemical and biological waste treatments; identify the appropriate processes for waste treatment and valorisation; select the operating conditions that allow to minimize environmental, economic and social costs, with recovery of materials and/or energy; understand and apply the regulatory framework; to assess material resources.