GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS

BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Introduction to the circular economy

• Introduction to waste management (legislation, concepts, technical principles, etc.)
• Landfill (construction, landfill gas, leachate)
• Biological treatment of organic waste
• Waste pre-treatment in mechanical-biological treatment plants and incineration plants
• Collection & Transportation of municipal solid waste
• Recycling

Introduction to renewable energies

• Introduction to data, information, legal framework, and historical development.
• Policy instruments
• Potentials of alternative energy sources
• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Bioenergy
• Geothermal energy
• Energy storage

Introduction to environmental engineering (staff members of the professorship are involved in this course)

• Issues and solutions in applied environmental protection in the areas of infrastructure, water, soil, coastal flood protection, renewable energies, agriculture, etc.
• Occupational areas and required skills of an environmental engineer
• Scientific work
• Project organization
• Preparation of reports, scientific writing

Environmental Process Engineering (The module is carried out together with the Chair of Water Resources Management)

• Basics of system analysis (boundaries, material flow analysis, reactors, reaction kinetics)
• Basic technical operations and processes (mechanical, thermal, and biological processes, phases, and interphase)
• Principle environmental engineering methods and their applications
• Important parameters for the characterization of water, wastewater, waste, soils and their analytical measurement (design, operation, and control/regulation of processes)

MASTER'S DEGREE IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Circular economy

• Collection and transportation - waste logistics
• Treatment of solid waste
• Recovery of waste - recycling (DSD, collection systems; waste glass; waste paper; metals; waste plastics; RDF); recovery of waste electrical and electronic equipment; wood waste; construction waste)
• Handling of hazardous waste
• Sewage sludge treatment and recycling
• Agricultural waste and animal by-products
• Contaminated sites

Sustainable energy systems and energy efficiency

• Definitions, concepts, political frameworks
• Renewable energy sources (solar energy, wind energy, bioenergy, geothermal energy)
• Energy storage methods
• Technologies and measures to increase efficiency
• Field trips

Bioenergy

• Biogenic residues and the utilization of organic raw materials
• Recycling of organic waste (e.g. composting)
• Energy recovery from biomass (e.g. incineration, fermentation)
• Sustainability (e.g. material flow analyses, life cycle assessments)
• Laboratory practical course
• Field trips

Environmental protection in the industry

• Recycling of production by-products
• Environmental management
• Efficient use of renewable and non-renewable raw materials
• Recycling technologies
• Design of environmental protection in selected industrial sectors (e.g. cement industry, steel production, power generation, automotive industry)

Research projects (staff members of the professorship are involved in this project)

• lecture series (internal and guest presentations)
• Current overview of the state of research in the chosen field (short lectures)
• Literature research and review
• Concept development and implementation of the research project (measurement or laboratory work, experimental setups, evaluations, programming)
• Short presentation and disputation
• Scientific elaboration (paper draft)

MASTER'S PROGRAM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (IEF)

Module Bioenergy and Waste to Energy / Bioenergy and Waste to Energy

• Relation between insufficient waste treatment and climate change
• Possibilities of waste management on climate protection at the example Germany and international research projects/examples
• waste hierarchy and impact of recycling on energy demand
• Potential of organic waste and renewable raw materials (e.g. organic waste and residues from private households, industry and commerce, agriculture, forestry, residues of the energy crop cultivation) for bioenergy
• Technical processes for the material and energy utilization of biomass (conversion and utilization of solid, liquid and gaseous bioenergy sources)
• Possibilities of GHG (greenhouse gas) savings by waste management, WtE and bioenergy
• Technical processes of advanced waste management technologies related to energy
• Production of alternative fuels and their possible uses as waste fuels (high-caloric fraction, refuse derived fuel, solid recovered fuel) inclusive quality and performance characteristics
• Objectives and basic/standard processes of the thermal treatment of waste (e.g. hazardous waste incineration in a rotary furnace, sewage sludge incineration in a fluidized bed furnace) and thermal utilization of solid biofuels
• Role of CHP concepts and options to supply heat and electricity demand
• Ecological, economic and social aspects for the evaluation of the sustainability of the material and energy utilization of biomass (material flow analysis, eco-balance, bioeconomy, renewable energy concepts of communities/municipalities)