Course detail

Ecology in Manufacturing

FEKT-MPC-EKVAcad. year: 2025/2026

Global warming, greenhouse effect, and human influence, relevant data and prediction possibilities. Global response, COP conferences, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement. Basic ecology terminology, environment, ecosystem, ecological stability, stressors. Sustainable development. Stockholm Convention. Production ecology, negative impact of production on the environment. Cleaner production and its practical applications. Waste, waste law, waste management concept, material and energy waste recycling. Wastewater from metal surface treatments. Used transformer and capacitor oils. Toxic waste materials. Waste from the production of fluorescents, discharge lamps, and screens. Waste materials from plastic production, electrochemical sources of electricity. Electricity production, individual technologies, and their environmental aspects. Labels and markings for ecological and sustainable products and services. Emissions, immissions, air pollution, Los Angeles and London smog. Processing of hazardous radioactive waste. 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Petr Bača, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Electrical and Electronic Technology (UETE)

Entry knowledge

Students who take the course registration should be able to explain the basic principles of electrical processes in the production of insulators, semiconductors and metals, discuss the basic concepts of ecology, global warming and the impact of human population on the environment. General knowledge is required at the bachelor's, or secondary studies.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Presented semester work together with research max. 30b
Elaborate: max. 10b
Final exam: max. 60b
Requirements for successful completion of the subject can be specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Aims

The aim of the course is to apply the ecological knowledge and procedures at production, operation and recycling of electrotechnical products. Within the frame of the knowledge of cleaner production it concerns minimizing the negative influence of production on environment. During recycling of products it concerns ensuring the minimum influence of technology on environment and effort to ensure the maximum share of recycled components at their secondary use.
The student is able to:
- Characterize the various types of waste, to name a split ways of recycling waste.
- Define the chemical toxic inorganic and organic substances.
- Describe (based on current knowledge) the main mechanisms contributing to global warming, can describe the principle greenhouse effect.
- Discuss different perspectives on the global environment, with a focus on European legislation, the U.S. legislation and legislation in developing countries.
- Explain the concept of sustainability and describe the evolution and current status of applicable legislation.
- Describe the mechanisms of corrosion of metals and define the basics of coatings.
- Describe the basic symptoms of electrostatic, magnetic and electromagnetic fields and their effect on biological systems.
- Can describe the life cycle of the product and describe the fault model of the product. They can characterize faults define the probability of failure.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Elektronická skripta předmětu (CS)
US Environmet Protection Agency:Profile of the Electronic and Computer Industry,EPA/310-R-95-002, 1995 (EN)

Recommended reading

CBI Rotterdam:Environmental Quick Scan Electronic Components,The Netherlands 1997 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MPC-EVM Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Bača, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Ecology of production, negative impact of production on environment.
Cleaner production and forms of its application at production processes.
Ecologically friendly technologies of electrotechnical products operation.
Recycling products of electrotechnical production.
Treatment of waste water at surface treatment of metals.
Treatment of used transformer and condenser kinds of oil.
Toxic materials at production and recycling of electrotechnical products.
Waste materials at production and recycling of plastic
Waste at production of fluorescent lamps, discharge lamps and cathode-ray tubes and their recycling.
Ecological processes at production of electrochemical sources.
Environmentally friendly technologies at operation of electrochemical sources.
Environmentally friendly technologies of recycling electrochemical sources.

Fundamentals seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Petr Bača, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Solution of the project of cleaner production in production plants.
Ecologically friendly applications of electrochemical sources in electric vehicles and at accumulation of electric energy from renewable sources.