WASTE TREATMENT
Conventional and separate collection of municipal solid waste: different systems, design criteria, calculation examples.
Municipal solid waste selection plants: technologies and mass balances.
Municipal and industrial waste incineration: characteristics of effluents, gaseous emission treatment technologies, design criteria, mass and energy balances, calculation examples.
Sanitary landfill: design criteria (impermeabilization, cover systems, biogas collection and recovery, leachate drainage and collection); calculation examples.
CONTAMINATED SITES
Contaminated site characterization: approaches, procedures, techniques
Health risk analysis: theory and calculation examples
Strategies for contaminated site remediation
Technologies to isolate contaminated sites: alternatives, design criteria, calculation examples
Remediation technologies: biological, chemical, thermal processes; design criteria; calculation examples