Solid & Hazardous Wastes - Characterization & Treatment
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The official GTU curriculum for Solid & Hazardous Wastes - Characterization & Treatment (subject code 2163505) as prescribed for Env. Sci. Tech · Semester 6 divides the course into 4 units, covering 27 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2163505)Unit 1 Introduction and characterization of solid waste and hazardous waste
- Municipal waste
- Plastic waste
- Biomedical waste
- dairy wastes
- agricultural wastes
- slaughter house wastes
- industrial waste and hazardous waste
Unit 2 Legislation for management of solid waste
- Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules
- 2000. e-waste management and handling rules
- Major sections of Hazardous Wastes (Management
- Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules
Unit 3 Solid waste management/treatment
- Sustainable waste management practices
- 4R principle for waste management
- Physico-chemical and Biological methods (aerobic composting and anaerobic digestion) of treating solid wastes
- Thermo-chemical methods (Pyrolysis
- gasification and incineration) of treating solid wastes
- Energy recovery through Refuse derived fuel
- Solid waste management in industries
- E-waste processing and disposal
Unit 4 Solid and hazardous waste disposal
- Guidelines and Landfill procedure for disposing hazardous waste
- Location and Site selection criteria for hazardous waste landfill
- Site investigation
- planning and design of hazardous waste landfill
- Waste acceptance criteria at hazardous waste landfill
- Liner and cover criteria for hazardous waste landfill
- Sanitary landfills for municipal waste
- Other methods of disposing solid waste