SEV731 - Waste Engineering and Transformation Systems
| Year: | 2027 unit information |
|---|---|
| Offering information: | The last offering for this unit will be in 2028 (not available from 2029) |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.250 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in S550, S751, S787 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | SEV331, SLE320 |
| Study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 2 x 1 hour practical experiences (workshops) per week, 1 x 2 hour practical experience (studio) per week. Students are required to attend and participate in a site visit for the scheduled days during trimester intensive activities (typically week 6). |
Content
Transforming waste into valuable resources is increasingly important to circular economy design and sustainable engineering practice. Through industry-related projects that reflect real-world challenges, this unit focuses on the evaluation and design of systems for managing municipal and industrial solid waste, hazardous waste, and industrial liquid waste, promoting the waste management hierarchy (avoidance, reduction, reuse, recycle, recovery of energy, treatment, disposal).
This unit equips students with the knowledge and skills to develop, design and evaluate comprehensive waste management systems such as biogas landfills or composting facilities. Students will develop a solid understanding of concepts essential for designing effective and safe waste treatment technologies, including contaminant transport, decomposition processes, and methane production in anaerobic systems. Students will apply biophysical and chemical process knowledge to predict the sustainable performance of waste designs over time.
To ensure waste management solutions contribute to long-term sustainability goals, students will learn leading practices, innovative technologies, and engineering systems for avoiding and reusing waste, recovering valuable materials, nutrients, and energy, with an emphasis on product end-of-life considerations, extended producer responsibility, and fostering industrial ecology systems where waste from one process becomes a raw material for another.
Unit fee information
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Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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