Solid Waste Management- II
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Solid Waste Management- II Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Solid Waste Management- II (subject code 3173517) as prescribed for Env. Sci. Tech · Semester 7 divides the course into 4 units, covering 30 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 (3173517)Unit 1 Introduction and characterization of industrial and hazardous waste
- Hazardous waste & Other Waste (Management and Transboundary) rules
- Waste Hierarchy
- Waste utilization and Rule-9
- Recovery operations like solvent recovery
- wealth-from-waste concept
- Manifest system
- storage and transportation of Hazardous Waste
- TCLP test
- Environmental monitoring for industrial hazardous waste treatment
Unit 2 Hazardous waste Landfills- Siting and design requirements, Captive & Common
- Liner system
- Capping requirements
- Acceptance criteria for direct landfill
- Leachate management
- Monitoring requirements
- Post closure maintenance
- Case Study of BEIL 8 Subject Code: 3173517
Unit 3 Thermal Treatments
- Co-processing- Guidelines
- waste characteristics
- Present scenario
- Advantages Incineration- Definition
- Characteristics of waste
- Captive Incinerators
- Guidelines for common hazardous waste incineration and emission norms
- Destruction and Removal efficiency (DRE) calculations
- Waste heat recovery
- Air pollution control
- Dioxin formation & control methods
Unit 4 Biomedical Waste Management
- Treatment techniques
- Disposal E-Waste Management: Definition
- Recovery & Recycling technologies