Plastic Recycling & Waste Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Plastic Recycling & Waste Management (subject code BE05023041) as prescribed for Plastic · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 31 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 (BE05023041)Unit 1 Introduction to Plastic Waste
- Definitions regarding plastic waste Sources of Plastic Waste
- 4 ‘s in Recycling Flow of plastics products & plastics waste
Unit 2 Introduction to polymer degradation
- Chain and random degradation
- Types of degradation like Mechanical degradation
- Thermal degradation
- Hydrolytic degradation Seperation of plastic waste Seperation methods
- Separation of Paper/Plastics mixture
- Separation of plastics from Plastic-coated fabric
- Separation of mixtures of Plastics
- Recycling Codes of plastics
- BIS Standard-IS 14534: Guidelines for Recycling of Plastics
Unit 3 Primary Recycling
- Problems in Primary recycling
- Granulating difficult materials- Cryogenic Grinding
- Reprocessing low Bulk-density plastic waste with plunger and screw type of stuffer
- In-line Automatic Recycling Systems
Unit 4 Secondary Recycling
- Technical approaches to Secondary Recycling Machinery for Reworking of Mixed Plastic waste- Reverzer
- Klobbie Secondary Recycling by Co-extrusion and Co-injection Molding Use of Plastic waste as fillers
Unit 5 Tertiary Recycling
- Advantages of Pyrolysis
- Effect of pyrolysis temperature on product yield
- Pyrolysis systems for Municipal solid refuse
- Pyrolysis of Plastics waste
- Pyrolysis reactions
- Problems associated with pyrolysis of plastics
- Union carbide reactor for Pyrolysis of Plastics
- Chemical decomposition of plastics waste through Hydrolysis and Glycolysis
Unit 6 Quaternary Recycling
- Parts of an Incinerator
- Incineration of predominantly plastics waste- Problems associated with incineration of pure plastic waste
- Characteristics of Incinerators suitable for Plastics waste Program Name: Engineering Level: Under Graduate Branch: Plastic Technology Subject Code: BE05023041 Subject Name :Plastic Recycling & Waste Management Landfill-Open Dumping & Sanitary Landfill
- Plastics in Landfill
- Environmental Implications of Recycling & Polymer Degradation Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
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