73357 - Laboratory On Alternative And Renewable Raw Materials M

Learning outcomes

Provide fundamentals on the major waste streams and renewable and secondary feedstocks and on their current and potential industrial use as alternative resources to mitigate the current use of non-renewable, primary raw materials.

Course contents

Circular Economy: basics and application

Quantity and major features of most prominent waste streams generated in Europe by the conventional industry and the agro-food, forest and marine sectors, wastewater and municipal waste management.

Biowaste: their sources, features, potential use.

Biowaste biorefinery: concept, its exploitation in the sustainable production of biobased chemicals, materials and energy and its relevance in the frame of the European Biobased and Green economy

Case studies on the production of Biobased fine chemicals, ingredients, materials and polymers from agrofood effluents and wastes and on the production of biofuels from municipal and agro-food industry effluents and wastes

Wastewater Biorefinery, Marine residue Biorefinery and Lignocellulosic residue biorefinery: basics and applications.

The sea as a source of alternative and renewable resources

Mining and petroleum waste: major features and novel exploitation pathways

Construction, ceramic and demolition wastes: major features and novel exploitation pathways

Non ferrous, steel and electronic waste: major features and novel exploitation pathways

Fluent spoken and written English is a necessary pre-requisite: all lectures and tutorials, and all study material will be in English.

Readings/Bibliography

Material provided by the professor

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures and seminars

Assessment methods

The exam consists in an oral interview in order to assess the methodological and critical skills acquired by the student. The student will be invited to discuss the topics covered during the lessons. The achievement of an organic vision of the issues addressed during the classes and their critical use, which demonstrate ownership of a mastery of expression and specific language, will be assessed with marks of excellence. Mechanical and / or mnemonic knowledge of matter, synthesis and analysis of non-articulating and / or correct language but not always appropriate will lead to discrete assessments; training gaps and / or inappropriate language - although in a context of minimal knowledge of the material - will lead to votes that will not exceed the sufficiency. Training gaps, inappropriate language, lack of guidance within the reference materials offered during the course will lead to failed assessments.

Teaching tools

Power point presentations will be used; copy of them will be provided to the students.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Fava