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AKTU Solid Waste Management (HTEN601) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech Honors Degree in Environmental Engineering
Solid Waste Management HTEN601
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Official AKTU syllabus of Solid Waste Management (HTEN601) for B.Tech Honors Degree in Environmental Engineering – 4 credits, L-T-P 3-1-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.
Syllabus — Solid Waste Management
Download PDFHTEN601 · 4 credits · L-T-P 3-1-0
Course Outcomes
CO1. Apply methods of resource management and solid waste management.
CO2. Choose suitable solid waste management infrastructure systems.
CO3. Discuss the strategies, resource management, recycling, reuse and reclamation of solid wastes.
CO4. Identify the inappropriate waste management practices and their impacts on water, soil and sediment quality.
CO5. Compare the available practices and systems for sustainable resource and solid waste management.
Course Content
| Unit-1 | Solid waste: Public health and ecological impacts, Sources and types of solid wastes, Functional elements. Physical and chemical composition of municipal solid waste, integrated solid waste management, hierarchy of waste management options, different methods for generation rates. Storage: movable bins, fixed bins. Collection: home to home collection, community bin system. Hauled container system and stationary container system. | 8 |
| Unit-2 | Transportation: Handcart, tri-cycle, animal cart, tripper truck and conveyors. Engineering system for on-site handling and processing of solid waste: separators, size reduction equipment and screening equipment. | 8 |
| Unit-3 | Land filling: Site selection criteria, landfill sections, Occurrence of gases and leach ate in landfills: composition and characteristics, generation factors, initial adjustment phase, transition phase, acid formation phase, methane formation phase, maturation phase of gases. | 8 |
| Unit-4 | Composting: Types of composting, process description, design, and operational consideration of aerobic and anaerobic composting. Thermal conversion technologies: incineration and pyrolysis system. | 8 |
| Unit-5 | Introduction to hazardous wastes: Definition of Hazardous waste, Risk assessment, Environmental legislation, Characterization and site assessment, Waste minimization and resource recovery. Disposal of hazardous waste. Introduction to E-waste and Biomedical waste and their disposal. | 8 |
Text Books
- George Tchobanoglous, Hilary Theisen and Samuel A, Vigil, Integrated Solid waste Management, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1993.
- CPHEEO, Manual on Municipal Solid waste management, Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organization, Government of India, New Delhi, 2000.
- Solid waste management- principles and practices, 2012, Ramesha Chandrappa, Springer.
- A comprehensive book on solid waste management- 1E, H.S. Bhatia, Misha Books.
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