Laboratory of Water and Wastewater Treatment and Waste Management Technologies

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Scientific domain PE4: Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences
Keywords Characterisation Waste Waters
Home partner institution (WROCLAW TECH) Wrocław University of Science and Technology
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Technical staff available Yes
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Remote access available No
Open to external users Yes
Equipment

cytometer, liquid chromatograph, ion chromatograph, total organic carbon analyzer, zetameter, flame photometer, Soxhlet apparatus, spectrophotometers

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Description

Forecasts of the quantity and composition of municipal waste; - Assessments and optimizations of the efficiency of treatment processes for all types of waste; - Development of municipal, medical and veterinary waste management programs for provinces, as well as for large and small agglomerations; - Development of concepts for the management of industrial and municipal waste by the following processes: biochemical, chemical, mechanical-biological, thermal, physical; - Development of technologies for remediation of contaminated soils and land; - Development of concepts for the energetic use of biomass; - Development of processes for the recovery of metals from polymetallic industrial waste, including hazardous waste by chemical metallurgy methods, with particular emphasis on waste from the processing of chemical energy sources; - Development of systems for the management of batteries and accumulators and their waste; - Development of technologies for stabilization/establishment of the following wastes: carbon black, refinery, oily, coke, tanning, electroplating and similar chemical mineral or organic wastes; - Development of concepts and technologies for the disposal of liquid, semi-liquid and slurry wastes containing heavy metals; - Development of technologies for processing and stabilization of waste from thermal processing of waste, waste from the power industry, waste from the metallurgical industry, etc..; - Development of technologies for processing and stabilization of all types of sludge from industrial wastewater treatment; - development of dosages/techniques/methods for agricultural use of municipal sewage sludge and similar sludge from mechanical-biological treatment of wastewater from food industry plants. - Granulometric and morphological studies of municipal and industrial wastes and soils with basic physicochemical analysis; - testing of fertilizer properties of wastes; - studies of the respiration rate of waste (AT4) and its susceptibility to decomposition under anaerobic conditions (GB21)/; - studies of the fuel properties of waste and waste fuels; - quantitative and qualitative studies of digestion gas (biogas) from waste; - studies of sequential extraction and mobility of metals and non-metals in soils and grounds. - determination of pH and electrolytic conductivity- Elmetron pH meters and conductivity meters; - determination of total nitrogen by the Kjeldahl method- Velp Scientifica DK6 mineralizer + Velp Scientifica UDK 149 steam distillation apparatus; - determination of chemical oxygen demand by cuvette method- mineralizer + UV spectrophotometer -Vis SpectroDirect Lovibond; - determination of fats by Soxhlet method- Buchi automatic extractor E 812; - determination of total phosphorus and metals by colorimetric method- Hach Lange DR6000/ spectrophotometer; - determination of metals: Li, Na, K, in solutions- BWB-XP flame photometer; - preparation/preparation/mineralization of test waste samples for determination of indicated/selected metals/micronutrients in cooperation with a certified departmental laboratory; - mass loss at 105°C and 550°C, determination of ash and silica by weighing methods, determination of sorption capacity by classical method- dryers and high-temperature ovens; - determination of heat of combustion- calorimetric bomb; - determination of nitrogen, potassium and assimilable phosphorus, as well as humus in the soil; - homogenization of samples- Retsch knife mill and IKA A11 laboratory mill; - determination of the AT4 respiration index - according to Austrian standard (ÖNORM S 2027-4:2012 06, 2012; - determination of biogas production potential (GB21) in accordance with German standard DIN 38414.