Academic year/semester: 2025/26/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: All OU students

Lecture hours: 1
Seminarium:0
Practice: 1
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: -

Course Leader: Gabriella Oroszlány Ph.D.

Faculty: Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, 1034 Budapest, Doberdó utca 6.

Course Description:
A description of the safety, health, environmental, quality and control requirements for the relevant professional sectors (textiles, clothing, leather, paper, plastics, etc.). Environmental impact of technologies, environmental problems in industrial production, their analysis and modern management. General rules and standards for waste management. Waste minimisation, recycling, re-use, disposal guidelines. Resource management.

Competences:
- He/she is familiar with the expectations and requirements in the fields of occupational health and safety, fire protection, safety and health at work, and environmental protection. - Knowledge of the basics, boundaries and requirements of marketing, management, environmental protection, quality assurance, information technology, legal and economic disciplines integrally related to product design. - Understands and uses the online and printed literature in Hungarian and at least one foreign language. - Knows and uses the language and specialised terminology of his/her field of specialisation in Hungarian and at least one foreign language. - Adheres to and complies with the relevant health and safety, environmental protection, quality assurance and control requirements.

Topics:
1.

Lecture: 1: Environmental risk assessment of textile processes and basic concepts

Practice: Raw materials in the textile industry, fibre recognition 1.

2.

L 2: Environmental risk assessment of textile processes and basic concepts

P: Raw materials in the textile industry, fibre recognition 1.

3.

L 3: Technologies of major chemical stress: the finishing industry, including the chemistry of dyes

P: Technical and non-woven textiles 1.

4.

L 4: Priority technologies for chemical stresses: the finishing industry, including dyeing and textile printing

P: Technical and non-woven textiles 2.

5.

L 5: Textiles for environmental protection, textile-based structures

P: Woven and knitted technical textiles 1.

6.

L 6: Voluntary certification schemes

P: Woven and knitted technical textiles 2.

7.

Test 1.

8.

L 7: Life cycle analysis in textiles and clothing - LCA

P: EU Textile Strategy

9.

L 8: Life cycle analysis in textiles and clothing - LCA

P: EU Textile Strategy

10.

L 9: Ecological and energy footprint of the textile and clothing industry

P: Feasibility of a circular economy in the textile industry

11.

L 10: Possibilities of reuse, recycling, destruction of textiles. Waste management.

P: Feasibility of a circular economy in the textile industry

12.

L 11: Possibilities of reuse, recycling, destruction of textiles. Waste management.

P: Feasibility of a circular economy in the textile industry

13.

L 12: Test 2.

P: Student reports

14.

Evaluation of the semester

Assessment: Exercise 1: Measurement report 1 Exercise 2: Measurement report 2 Exercise 3: Measurement report 3 Assignment 4: Report (individual development and electronic submission of the required assignment via Moodle and oral presentation in weeks 12 and 13) 2 online tests (in weeks 7 and 13).

Exam Types:

Mid Term Exam

Compulsory bibliography: https://elearning.uni-obuda.hu/ electronic notes and aids prepared by the instructor Kate Fletcher: Sustainable fashion and Textile Design Journeys, Taylor & Francis, 2014. ISBN10 0415644569, ISBN13 9780415644563

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