Cleaner Production Engineering

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Cleaner Production Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content

The official GTU curriculum for Cleaner Production Engineering (subject code 4361304) as prescribed for Mining · Semester 6 divides the course into 4 units, covering 25 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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Unit 1 Introduction to Cleaner Production and its methodology

1.1. Introduction to sustainability and environmental engineering
1.2. Historical perspective and evolution of cleaner production
1.3. Principles and concepts of cleaner production
1.4. The effect of Cleaner Production on industrial economy
1.5. Motivators and Barriers to Cleaner Production
1.6. Six step methodology for Cleaner Production
1.7. Cleaner Production Options

Unit 2 Waste Minimization Techniques and good housekeeping

2.1. Source reduction and waste hierarchy
2.2. Material and energy flow analysis
2.3. 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) principles
2.4. Check lists for good housekeeping

Unit 3 Pollution Prevention Strategies

3.1. Introduction to pollution prevention
3.2. Design for environment (DFE) principles
3.3. Best available technology (BAT) for pollution prevention
3.4. Lean manufacturing and just-in- time (JIT) concepts
3.5. Energy efficiency and process Cleaner Production engineering Course Code: 4361304 manufacturing and just-in- time (JIT) concepts, Energy efficiency and process optimization, Green chemistry and sustainable materials, concept of eco- design.
3.6. Green chemistry and sustainable materials, concept of eco-design
3.7. Life cycle analysis (LCA): target setting, data collection and processing, final evaluation by virtue of criteria

Unit 4 Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)

4.1. CCS and its role in mitigating climate change.
4.2. Identification of major sources of CO2 emissions (e.g., power plants, industrial processes, transportation) and its quantification.
4.3. Carbon Capture Technologies: Post-Combustion Capture, Pre- Combustion Capture, Oxyfuel Combustion
4.4. Transportation of Captured CO2 by pipelines/shipping
4.5. Carbon Storage: Geological Storage, Ocean storage
4.6. Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
4.7. Potential environmental impacts of CCS

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