Bachelor's degree
Teaching Classes in the field of Environmental Protection:
- Waste management
- Environmental engineering
- Nanoparticles in medicine, cosmetology, biotechnology and environmental protection
Waste management
Forms and semester of classes: Lecture 15 hours, Laboratory Exercises 30 hours, 1st semester (winter).
Program contents:
Legal basis of waste management - Law on waste. Municipal waste management system: collection, segregation, equipment for mechanical segregation of waste, waste containers, waste collection vehicles. Basic methods of municipal waste disposal: composting, landfilling, incineration. Waste recovery: management of furnace waste, used car tires, used lubricating oils, electronic equipment, depleted motor vehicles. Mineral waste of mining, metallurgy and inorganic industry. Hazardous waste and its disposal: physical-chemical methods, solidification, incineration. Incinerators of hazardous waste. Methods of exhaust gas treatment systems. Management of medical waste.
Environmental engineering
Forms and semester of classes: Lecture 30 hrs; Auditing Exercises 15 hrs; Laboratory Exercises 30 hrs, 5th semester (winter).
Program contents:
Issues of the lecture: Principles of green chemistry and green engineering. Types and sources of water, soil and air pollution. Selected equipment used in water treatment processes. Parameters of water. Technologies for treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater. Methods of sewage sludge management. Classification of methods of soil remediation. Physico-chemical methods of soil remediation. Thermal methods of soil remediation. Dust removal methods for air. Dry dust collection. Wet dust collection. Control of odor emissions. Control of NOx emissions. Removal of NOx from flue gases. Flue gas desulfurization. Air protection by desulfurization of fossil fuels. Control of CO2 emissions.Photocatalytic methods of air purification.
Audit and laboratory exercises: Hardness, alkalinity, pH of natural waters, Aerobic parameters in the assessment of water and wastewater quality. Determination of pollutant loads. Mechanical treatment of wastewater; Oxygenation of water and wastewater; Physical and chemical study of compost. De-gelatinization of water. Application of sorption and decarbonation. A tour of a selected plant.
Nanoparticles in medicine, cosmetology, biotechnology and environmental protection
Forms and semester of classes: Lecture 15 hours; Laboratory Exercises 15 hours, 5th semester.
Program contents:
Methods of obtaining and plasmonic properties of gold nanoparticles. Nanoparticles used as drug carriers. Nanocarriers of active substances in cosmetics. Application of nanoparticles in medical diagnostics. Use of plant extracts for gold and silver nanoparticles. Nanoparticles vs. solar cells. Obtaining and applications of graphene oxide nanoparticles. Obtaining and applications of titanium dioxide nanoparticles. Nanoparticles in environmental technologies (water treatment process, wastewater treatment and air purification).
Issues of laboratory exercises: Preparation and characterization of colloidal solutions of gold, silver and copper. Preparation of cosmetic emulsion containing silver nanoparticles. Preparation of semiconductor nanoparticles. Fabrication of nanocrystalline cells based on the produced semiconductors.