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English title:
Composting technology
Course ID:
931306
ECTS credits:
3,0
Title in native language:
Kompostierungstechnik
Term Semester:
Spring/Summer
Instruction language(s):
German
Course content:
• National and international rules and laws concerning composting

• Definition and types from input-materials (organic waste, bio-waste,

• agricultural manure,...)

• Biology and biological parameters of the composting process

• State of the art - process engineering

• Buildings for composting plants

• Mechanisation, technical equipment for the different steps of the

• composting process

• Costs of the production, financial success

• Quality of compost (nutrients, heavy metals,...)

• Planning and design of composting plants

• Steps for the permission and ways to get a licence for the composting plant
Learning outcomes:
Overview and presentation of agricultural composting technology (wind-row composting,...) opposite to industrial intensive technical composting (closed tunnel systems)

Organisation: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna

Country:
Austria
Acronym:
BOKU
ERASMUS+ code:
A WIEN03
Teaching period summer semester:
22. Feb 2021 - 30. Sep 2021
Teaching period winter semester:
13. Oct 2020 - 21. Feb 2021