Recovery and recycling of critical materials and chemicals for waste management
A.A. 2025/2026
Obiettivi formativi
The course aims to provide the student with the main issues and technologies for the reuse and recycling of critical materials and management of waste. Industrial and lab scale approaches will be reviewed considering the type of materials, the composition and the possibility to their reuse or their valorization into other products. Purification techniques and synthetic approaches will be objectives of discussion considering pros and contra for the industrial application.
Risultati apprendimento attesi
To recognize a complexity of materials. To manage different approaches in order to control sustainability of recovery and valorisation of waste materials. To be able to differentiate a lab-scale from an industrial method for the utilisation of waste or exhaust materials. Chemical and physical characterization of complex mixtures and methods for their separation.
Periodo: Secondo semestre
Modalità di valutazione: Esame
Giudizio di valutazione: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Corso singolo
Questo insegnamento non può essere seguito come corso singolo. Puoi trovare gli insegnamenti disponibili consultando il catalogo corsi singoli.
Programma e organizzazione didattica
Edizione unica
Responsabile
Periodo
Secondo semestre
Programma
-General introduction on complex matrixes and their characterisation
-CO2 recovery from air and industrial processes. CO2 valorisation into bulk and fine-chemicals. Reductive and non-reductive transformations
-Plastic wastes: recovery and valorisation into chemicals.
-Recovery of hazardous wastes like solvents and cleaning agents.
-Disposal and valorisation of waste in biomass-treatment industrial processes. Glycerol in bio-diesel production and residue in urban waste treatment.
-Recovery and reuse of critical metals from e-waste and spent catalysts
-CO2 recovery from air and industrial processes. CO2 valorisation into bulk and fine-chemicals. Reductive and non-reductive transformations
-Plastic wastes: recovery and valorisation into chemicals.
-Recovery of hazardous wastes like solvents and cleaning agents.
-Disposal and valorisation of waste in biomass-treatment industrial processes. Glycerol in bio-diesel production and residue in urban waste treatment.
-Recovery and reuse of critical metals from e-waste and spent catalysts
Prerequisiti
Conoscenza base della chimica inorganica
Metodi didattici
Lezioni frontali e discussioni di gruppo basate su fonti di letteratura
Materiale di riferimento
Slide e articoli forniti dal docente
Modalità di verifica dell’apprendimento e criteri di valutazione
L'esame finale sarà orale ma, a preferenza degli studenti, può prevedere prove in itinere che sostituiscono la prova finale.
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