Waste Management and Energy Recovery

Module code: CE7E04 · Semester: Semester 1

Resources

• Module descriptor (TCD)

Questions by Year

0 of 12 done · tick papers and add notes as you go

• 2025/26
• 2024/25
• 2023/24
• 2022/23
• 2021/22
• 2020/21
• 2018/19
• 2017/18
• 2016/17
• 2015/16
• 2014/15
• 2013/14

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Topics

• Waste definitions and assessment LO1, LO6
• Landfill and landspreading hydrology LO3
• Thermal treatment: incineration, pyrolysis, gasification LO2–3
• Contaminated land: investigation, remediation, monitoring, risk LO3–4
• Energy recovery: heat, electricity and gas from organic waste LO2
• Legislation, circular economy and regional strategy LO4–5, LO7

Learning outcomes (exam covers LO1–6)

1. Understand solid waste and conceptual approaches to managing it
2. Understand energy recovery from solid waste
3. Understand best available waste treatment technologies
4. Understand waste legislation and regulation
5. Relate waste management to climate change, circular economy and sustainability
6. Collect and analyse waste data
7. Develop sustainable waste strategies for a region or city

Summarised from the module descriptor, checked November 2026.