MJ2632 International Intensive Course in Solid Waste Management 6.0 credits

Municipal and industrial waste. Strategies to solve waste problems including the system analysis approach. Treatment systems. Recycling and reuse. Waste treatment processes such as incineration, aerobic and anaerobic biological processes. Landfills. Current waste related legislation.

Some parts of the course will be given at different waste treatment facilities.

After a passed course the student should be able to:

• Define and explain important concepts in the field of solid waste management, such as waste hierarchy, waste prevention, recirculation, municipal solid waste etc.

• Suggest and describe suitable technical solutions for treatment of municipal and industrial waste. The student should also be able to discuss the drawbacks and prerequisites for a chosen solution.  

• Describe the construction and operation of a modern landfill.

• From a given case, connected to a solid waste problem, suggest, motivate and describe a way to tackle the problem from a system analysis approach.  • Discuss social aspects connected to handling and recirculation of solid waste from a local as well as global perspective.
 
 • Analyse and describe the potential of solid waste as a secondary raw material, and thereby associated problems and possibilities in a sustainable society.  

• Actively participate and take responsibility in a group project work carried out on a distant basis over internet.

• Independently search for information connected to solid waste management, make a compilation of this, and analyse it in a written report.
 
• Make an oral presentation of an individual work and actively participate in the discussion of other groups work.

At least two years of academic studies in a program of engineering, or natural science or course MJ2611 or corresponding knowledge.

Bibliography will be handed out at the start of the course.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• ANN1 - Assignments and Study Visits, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO1 - Project, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Monika Olsson

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.