Lecture: Classifying and mixing machines 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Lieberwirth

Learning outcomes: Students will be equipped to calculate, design and apply classifying and mixing machines in a targeted manner

Content: Design and dimensioning of classifying machines (e.g. static screens, vibrating screens, tension-shaft screens, trommel screens, static and dynamic separators) and mixers (e.g. mechanical mixers, pneumatic mixers, liquid mixers, fluidised beds)

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Tutorial – 1 SWS; Practical – 1 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA for 11 or more participants) [MP at least 60 mins / KA
90 mins]
Attendance requirement: Completion of at least 90 per cent of the practical sessions and tutorials (reports), including one design-based tutorial. The attendance requirement must be met or evidenced before sitting the examination. 
Credit points: 5

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecture: Sorting machines

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Lieberwirth

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to calculate, design and apply sorting machines in a targeted manner.

Content: Design and dimensioning of sorting machines (e.g. wet-stream classifiers, density separators such as float-sink separators, settling machines, chutes and beds; magnetic, electrical and eddy-current separators; flotation units and claw separators).

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Tutorial – 1 SWS; Practical – 1 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA for 11 or more participants) [MP at least 60 mins / KA
90 mins]
PVL: Completion of at least 90 per cent of the practical sessions and tutorials (minutes), including 1 design-based tutorial. The PVL requirements must be met or evidenced before sitting the examination. 
Credit points: 5

Link to the Opal course: Here

Lecture: Material Handling Technology

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Lieberwirth

Learning outcomes: Building on methods of material characterisation and the fundamentals of various conveying processes, students will acquire expertise regarding the potential applications of different conveying technologies (pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical conveying), the associated machinery and equipment, and the calculation and design of selected conveyors and conveying systems for mineral, renewable raw materials and waste.

Content: Possibilities and methods of material characterisation, process fundamentals, classification, calculation and design of selected conveying equipment (e.g. pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical conveying) as well as the planning of conveying systems (e.g. in the context of the processing of mineral and renewable raw materials as well as waste).

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Practical – 2 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA for 11 or more participants) [MP at least 30 mins / KA
90 mins]
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 90% of the practical sessions and tutorials, including 1 design-based tutorial 
PVL requirements must be met or evidenced before sitting the examination. 
Credit points: 4

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecture: Classifying Machines, Crushers, Mills

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Lieberwirth

Competencies: Students will be able to select, calculate and design classifying machines, crushers and mills in accordance with the specific requirements of their application

Content: Planning and design of classifying machines, crushers and mills (static, vibrating and drum screens, cyclones and air separators; jaw, double-roll, cone, gyratory, hammer and impact crushers; tumbling, high-pressure grinding, vertical roller, vibrating, stirred media, impact, beater and jet mills)

Type of teaching: Lecture – 2 SWS; Practical sessions – 1 SWS; Application – 1 SWS

Examination and requirements for credit points To be awarded credit points, students must pass the module examination. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA if 10 students or more) [MP minimum 30 mins / KA 90 mins]
PVL: At least 90 per cent of the practical sessions must be successfully completed (protocols). PVL requirements must be met prior to the examination.
Credit points: 5

Link to the OPAL course Here 

Lecture: Maintenance Engineering

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Pierre Landgraf

Competencies: Students will be enabled to understand maintenance as a combination of technical, technological, organisational and economic tasks and to
plan the maintenance process within the framework of production process control, to prepare it technologically and to implement it rationally, whilst taking legal requirements into account.

Content: 
- Content / Purpose / Tasks / Organisation of maintenance
- Damage processes, technical diagnostics, renewal processes
- Maintenance methods
- Planning of maintenance measures
- Maintenance organisation
- Maintenance technology
- Reliability of technical systems
- Maintenance-friendly design and configuration
- Analysis of weak points in machinery and plant

Teaching format: S1 (winter semester): Lectures (2 SWS)
                            S1 (winter semester): Practical sessions (1 SWS)

Examination and requirements for credit points The prerequisite for the award of credit points is passing the module examination. The module examination comprises: KA [90 mins]
Credit points: 4

Link to the OPAL course Here 

Lecture: Agglomerators

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Krampitz

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to calculate, design and apply agglomerators in a targeted manner.

Content: Structure and mode of operation, operational behaviour, application, and the design and sizing of agglomerators (e.g. pelletising, briquetting and compacting machines).

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Practical – 1 SWS

Assessment and awarding of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the awarding of credit points. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA for 11 or more participants) [MP at least 30 mins / KA 60 mins]
Attendance requirements: at least 90 per cent of practical sessions and exercises successfully completed, including one design-based exercise. Attendance requirements must be met or evidenced before sitting the examination.
Credit points: 4

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecture: Recycling plants

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Krampitz

Learning outcomes: Students will become familiar with the methods of plant engineering as well as with the calculation and design of selected plant components and complete waste treatment plants (e.g. construction waste, plastics, scrap metal, waste wood, waste paper, waste glass, waste tyres).

Content: Methods of plant engineering, calculation and design of selected plant components (e.g. shredding/screening machines, dust extraction technology, dosing, conveying and storage technology) as well as the planning of complete plants (e.g. scrap processing plants, construction waste, waste glass, waste timber and plastics processing plants)

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Practical session – 1 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing
the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: KA [90 min]
Credit points: 4

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zinke

Learning outcomes: Students will be equipped to design steel structures subjected to static loads in accordance with fundamental principles and to carry out the necessary structural analysis. They should be equipped to make appropriate use of steel as a material and its semi-finished products, as well as to apply suitable connection techniques. This is based on knowledge of how to determine stresses and allowable stresses.

Content: The fundamentals of steel construction are taught in terms of design, calculation and execution. Based on the technological properties of steel as a material and on products used in structural steel construction, the design of structural members is explained with regard to ultimate load-bearing capacity and serviceability. In addition to elastic and plastic cross-section design, typical stability cases in steel construction are explained and simplified verification methods are covered. Furthermore, the fundamentals of the design and calculation of bolted and welded connections and joints are presented.

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Practical session – 1 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: KA [120 mins]
Prerequisites: Proof of attendance at the practical sessions. Prerequisites must be met or evidenced before sitting the examination.
Credit points: 4

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecture: Primary crushing machinery

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Lieberwirth

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to calculate, design and
apply primary crushing machinery in a targeted manner.

Content: Design and dimensioning of crushers (e.g. jaw, cone, roller, impact and hammer crushers), design of crusher tools.

Teaching methods: Lecture – 3 SWS; Tutorial – 1 SWS; Practical course – 1 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA for 11 or more participants) [MP at least 60 mins / KA 90 mins]
Practical requirements: At least 90 per cent of practical sessions and tutorials must be successfully completed (records), including one design-based tutorial. These practical requirements must be fulfilled or evidenced before sitting the examination.
Credit points: 6

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecture: Fine-grinding machines

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Lieberwirth

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to calculate, design and apply fine grinding machines in a targeted manner.

Content: Design and dimensioning of machines for fine and ultra-fine grinding (mills, e.g. drop mills, oscillating mills, agitator ball mills, roller mills, roller bed mills, impact mills and jet mills; static and dynamic classifiers, aerocyclones)

Teaching formats: Lecture – 3 SWS; Tutorial – 1 SWS; Practical – 1 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA for 11 or more participants) [MP at least 60 mins / KA 90 mins]
Prerequisites: At least 90 per cent of practical sessions and tutorials must be successfully completed (records), including one design-based tutorial. Prerequisites must be met or verified before sitting the examination.
Credit points: 6

Link to the Opal course: Here

Lecture: Materials Handling

Lecturer: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Lieberwirth

Areas of expertise: Building on methods of material characterisation and the fundamentals of the various processes, students acquire expertise in the possibilities offered by different conveying techniques (pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical conveying), the associated machinery and equipment, and the calculation and design of selected conveyors and conveying systems for minerals, renewable raw materials and waste.

Content: Possibilities and methods of bulk material characterisation, process fundamentals, classification, calculation and design of selected conveyors (pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical) as well as the design of conveying systems (for example, in the processing of primary and secondary raw materials and waste).

Type of teaching: Lecture – 2 SWS; Practical sessions – 1 SWS

Examination and requirements for credit points To be awarded credit points, students must pass the module examination. The module examination comprises: MP/KA (KA if 10 or more students) [MP minimum 30 mins / KA 90 mins]
Prerequisites: At least 90 per cent of the practical sessions must be successfully completed (protocols). These prerequisites must be met before the examination.
Credit points: 4

Link to the OPAL course Here 

Lecture: Dust extraction systems

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Pierre Langgraf

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to calculate and design dust extraction equipment and systems.

Content: Calculation and design of dust extraction systems (e.g. gravity and inertia dust collectors, centrifugal and electrostatic dust collectors, filter separators, wet dust collectors) as well as safety devices for explosion protection (e.g. rupture discs, explosion relief flaps)

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Tutorial – 1 SWS; Practical – 1 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Passing the module examination is a prerequisite for the award of credit points. The module examination comprises: KA [90 mins] Prerequisites: completion of at least 90 per cent of the practical sessions and tutorials (reports), including one design-based exercise. Prerequisites must be fulfilled or evidenced before sitting the examination.
Credit points: 4

Link to the Opal course: Here

Lecture: Processing plants for mineral raw materials

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zinke

Learning outcomes: Students will become familiar with the methods of plant engineering as well as with the calculation and design of selected plant components and complete plants for materials exhibiting brittle behaviour (e.g. solid/loose rock, ores, salts, coal).

Content: Methods of plant engineering, calculation and design of selected plant components (e.g. crushing and screening machines, dust extraction technology, dosing, conveying and storage technology), as well as the planning of complete plants (e.g. cement production plants, crushed stone/crushed gravel and sand/gravel plants)

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS; Practical – 2 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Successful defence of a project report (maximum duration of the defence: 60 minutes)
Credit points: 4

Link to the Opal course: Here

Lecture: Maintenance

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zinke

Learning outcomes: Students should be enabled to understand maintenance as a complex set of technical, technological, organisational and economic tasks, and to plan the maintenance process within the framework of production process control, prepare it to a large extent from a technological perspective, and carry it out efficiently whilst taking statutory requirements into account.

Content: 
- Content/objectives/tasks/organisation of maintenance
- Damage processes, technical diagnostics, renewal processes
- Maintenance methods
- Planning of maintenance measures
- Maintenance organisation
- Maintenance technology
- Reliability of technical systems
- Maintenance-oriented design and project planning
- Vulnerability analysis of machinery and plant

Teaching formats: Lecture – 2 SWS

Assessment and award of credit points: Credit points are awarded subject to passing the module examination. The module examination comprises: KA [90 mins]
Credit points: 3

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecture: Mechanical recycling processes

Lecturer:  Dr.-Ing.  Th. Krampitz

Learning outcomes:  Students will gain an overview of waste management, its regulatory aspects and characteristic properties, as well as the processes, machinery and methods used for the material recovery of scrap and solid waste. They will be equipped to select, size and make targeted use of classification and sorting equipment, automatic claw-type sorting systems, and selected machinery for the compaction of waste and scrap. In addition, an overview is provided of the application of specific comminution techniques for the processing of non-brittle materials from the waste sector. This covers the influence of particle shape, which significantly affects sorting behaviour. Students will be equipped to select shredding machines for non-brittle materials for targeted use and to assess them in terms of calculation, design and wear.

Contents: Issues relating to material recovery and the classification of solid waste and scrap in accordance with waste code numbers; sampling and characterisation methods for waste piles consisting of irregularly shaped pieces; Potential hazards; regulatory requirements for waste treatment; integration of findings into the design phase of new products; evaluation of recycling processes and the recyclability of products; Specific features of waste treatment processes; selection and sizing of classification and sorting equipment (single-stream and mass-flow sorting, e.g. screeners, magnetic and eddy current separators, electrosorting; sensor-based sorting and the use of AI); Classification, application criteria and specific features of the various comminution principles for non-brittle materials, as well as rules for the design and specification of rotary shears (granulators), rotary shredders and rotary cutters.

Teaching methods: Lecture – 2 SWS

Link to the Opal course: Here 

Lecture: Mechanical recycling processes

Lecturer: Dr.-Ing. Th. Krampitz

Qualification objective: Students will gain an overview of the handling of waste, its regulatory peculiarities and characteristic properties as well as the processes, machines and procedures for the recycling of scrap and solid waste. They will be able to select, dimension and utilise classifying and sorting equipment, automatic compactors and selected machines for compacting waste and scrap. It also provides an overview of the application of specific comminution techniques for processing non-brittle materials from the waste sector. This includes the influence of particle shape, which has a significant impact on sorting behaviour. Students will be able to select shredding machines for non-brittle materials for targeted use and assess them in terms of calculation, design and wear.

Content: Problems of material recycling and classification of solid waste and scrap with assignment to waste code numbers; sampling and characterisation options for waste piles of irregularly shaped pieces; potential hazards; Authorisation situation for the treatment of waste, integration of findings into the design phase of new products, evaluation of recycling processes and the recyclability of products; special features of waste treatment processes; selection and dimensioning of classifying and sorting equipment (individual and mass flow sorting, e.g. classifiers, magnetic ande.g. classifiers, magnetic and eddy current separators, electric sorting; sensor-assisted sorting and use of AI); classification, application criteria, special features of the various shredding principles in the field of non-brittle materials as well as rules for the construction and design of rotor shears (granulators), rotor shredders and rotor cutters.

Teaching methods: Lecture - 2 SWS

Link to the opal course: Here