SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
Subject Code 10CV757
IA
Marks : 25
No. of Lecture
Hours/Week : 04 Exam
Hours : 03
Total No. of Lecture
Hours : 52
Exam Marks : 100
PART - A
UNIT
- 1
INTRODUCTION:
Definition, Land Pollution – scope and importance of solid waste
management, functional elements of solid waste management. SOURCES: Classification
and characteristics – municipal, commercial & industrial. Methods of
quantification. 08
Hours
UNIT
- 2
COLLECTION
AND TRANSPORTATION: Systems of collection, collection equipment, garbage chutes,
transfer stations – bailing and compacting, route optimization techniques and
problems. 06 Hours
UNIT
- 3
TREATMENT
/ PROCESSING TECHNIQUES: Components separation, volume reduction,
size reduction, chemical reduction and biological processing problems. 6 Hours
UNIT
- 4
INCINERATION:
Process – 3 T’s, factors affecting incineration process, incinerators
– types, prevention of air pollution, pyrolsis, design criteria for incineration.
7
Hours
PART - B
UNIT
- 5
COMPOSTING:
Aerobic and anaerobic composting, factors affecting composting,
Indore and Bangalore processes, mechanical and semi mechanical composting processes.
Vermicomposting. 6
Hours
UNIT
- 6
SANITARY
LAND FILLING: Different types, trench area, Ramp and pit method, site selection,
basic steps involved, cell design, prevention of site pollution, leachate &
gas collection and control methods, geosynthetic fabrics in sanitary land fills. 8
Hours
UNIT
- 7
DISPOSAL
METHODS: Open dumping – selection of site, ocean disposal, feeding to hogs,
incineration, pyrolsis, composting, sanitary land filling, merits and demerits,
biomedical wastes and disposal. 6 Hours
UNIT
- 8
RECYCLE
AND REUSE: Material and energy recovery operations, reuse in other
industries, plastic
wastes, environmental
significance and reuse. 5
Hours
REFERENCES
1. Integrated
Solid Waste Management: Tchobanoglous : M/c Graw Hill.
2. Solid Waste
Management in developing countries. Bhide and Sunderashan
3. Hand book on
Solid Waste Disposal.: Pavoni J.L.
4. Environmental
Engineering.: Peavy and Tchobanoglous
5. Environmental
Engineering – Vol II.: S.K. Garg
6. Biomedical
waste handling rules – 2000.
7. Solid Waste
Engineering by Vesilind.Pa Worrell & Reinhart.D. – 2009, Cengage
Learning India Private Limited, New Delhi.