Agricultural Organic Waste Management

About this course

Expected learning outcomes

• Understand the nature and production pattern of agricultural organic waste, from all various relevant process, including the agro-industrial (food processing) facilities

• Understand the need of proper management of these wastes, regarding both the environmental, as well as, the economic aspects

• Comprehend how the related EU legislation and policies (circular economy, resources efficiency etc) have been developed and the opportunities that can be found towards their implementation.

• Comprehend aerobic digestion or composting, microbiology of the process, parameters that affect efficiency, pathogens and pollutants fate, use of compost, technology and methodologies.

• Comprehend anaerobic digestion, biogas and digestate production, microbiology of the process, parameters that affect efficiency, pathogens and pollutants fate, use of digestate and biogas upgrade, technology and methodologies.

• Understand the processes behind the production of “high added value products” from organic wastes, as for example energy, bioplastic and animal feed and the possible implementation onsite, where the wastes are produced.

Indicative Syllabus

    • Solid waste categorization, production, environmental and economic issues

    • Aerobic digestion: composting

    • Anaerobic digestion: energy production

    • Organic wastes and bioplastics synthesis and production

    • Animal feed production from food wastes

    • Incineration, pyrolysis and gasification of biomass for energy recovery

    • Onsite treatment of agricultural waste and high added values products

    Teaching / Learning Methodology

    • Lectures, field work, lab exercises and/or projects

    Recommended Reading

    • Solid Waste Engineering and Management. Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Yung-Tse Hung, Springer, Berlin, 2021

    • Science of Composting, Eliot Epstein, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019

    • Current Advances in Anaerobic Digestion Technology, Marcell Nikolausz and Jörg Kretzschmar, 2022

     

    Prerequisites

     

    Start Date

    2023

    End Date

    2024

    Apply

    2023

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    Local Course Code

    04105

    Cycle

    TBA

    Year of study

    TBA

    Language

    English

    Study Load

    5 ECTS

    Mode of delivery

    Written exams and/or project evaluation

    Instructors

    Dr. Thrassyvoulos Manios

    Course coordinator

    Dr. Thrassyvoulos Manios

    E-mail

    tmanios@hmu.gr