COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEV 4029 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Environmental Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÖRKEM AKINCI

Offered to

Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering

Course Objective

The course aims to teach the assessment of economical issues related to the solid waste management due to the commonly used technologies

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Can order and classify the cost items related to the solid waste facilities.
2   Can discuss the technologies subject to the investments by considering tyhe cost items and comment the costs mentinoed in the literature.
3   Can use the knowledge related to the unit investment costs, and apply them to the new plants.
4   Can present the waste management components, compare their costs, and correlate the cost items with the waste properties.
5   Can formulate the costs of waste management systems and determine them numerically.
6   Can decide on the waste management systems by considering thye cost elements and can foresee the investment and operation costs.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Common waste processing technologes, genecar cost tables
2 Factors effecting the first investment costs
3 FActors effecting the processing costs
4 The first investment and operationg costs in the landfills
5 The first investment and operationg costs in the composting plants
6 The first investment and operationg costs in the incineration and pyrolysis plants
7 Midterm exam
8 The first investment and operationg costs in the anaerobic digesters
9 In class activities- Problem creation and solution
10 In class activities- Problem creation and solution
11 Collection/ Transfer/Transportation Costs
12 In class activities- Problem creation and solution
13 Student presentations
14 Student presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Görkem AKINCI
DEÜ Çevre Mühendisliği Bölümğ, 35160, Buca IZMIR

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 30

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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