Solid Waste Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Solid Waste Management (subject code DI04013031) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 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.
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- composition and Properties of Municipal Solid Waste 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Sources of solid waste 1.3 Types of solid waste. 1.4 Composition of solid waste and its determination. 1.5 Types of materials recovered from MSW. 1.6 Sampling and characteristics of MSW 1.7 Physical properties ofMunicipal Solid Waste 1.8 Chemical properties ofMunicipal Solid Waste 1.9 Biological properties ofMunicipal Solid Waste 1.10 Transformation of Municipal Solid Waste
Unit 2 Solid
- Waste Generation and Collection 2.1 Quantities of Solid Waste. 2.2 Measurements and methods to measure solid waste quantities. 2.3 Solid waste generation and collection. 2.4 Factors affecting solid waste generation rate. 2.5 Quantities of materials recovered from MSW
Unit 3 Handling,
- Separation and Storage of Solid Waste 3.1 Handling and separation of solid waste at site
- Material separation by pick in, screens
- float and separator magnets and electromechanical separator and other latest devices for material separation. 3.2 Waste handling and separation at commercial and industrial facilities. 3.3 Storage of solid waste at the sources
Unit 4 Processing
- and Disposal of Municipal 4.1 Processing of solid waste at residence e.g
- granulating etc. 4.2 Processing of solid waste at commercial and industrial site
- Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Environmental Engineering Subject Code : DI04013031 Subject Name : Solid Waste Management Solid Waste 4.3 Combustion and energy recovery of municipal solid waste
- effects of combustion
- undesirable effects of combustion. 4.4 Landfill: Classification
- landfill processes
- landfill design
- landfill operation
- use of old landfill
- 4.5 Bio reactor landfill – working
- advantages and disadvantages
- Landfill rehabilitation 4.6 Differentiate sanitary land fill and incineration as final disposal system for solid waste 4.7 Biochemical processes: Methane generation by anaerobic digestion
- composting and other biochemical processes
Unit 5 Hazardous
- Solid Waste 5.1 Definition
- identification and classification of hazardous solid waste
- Characteristics of Hazardous waste: toxicity
- bio- concentration
- genetic activity
- explosiveness. 5.2 Bio-medical waste
- its sources
- transportation and disposal. 5.3 Radioactive waste-Sources
- Storage and disposal 5.4 Introduction to bio medical waste and e waste
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