English title:
Composting technology
Course ID:
931306
ECTS credits:
3,0
Title in native language:
Kompostierungstechnik
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
• 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
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