EN8591 Municipal Solid Waste Management Syllabus:
EN8591 Municipal Solid Waste Management Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2017
OBJECTIVES:
- To make the students conversant with the types, sources, generation, storage, collection, transport, processing and disposal of municipal solid waste.
UNIT I SOURCES AND CHARACTERISTICS
Sources and types of municipal solid wastes- Public health and environmental impacts of improper disposal of solid wastes- sampling and characterization of wastes – factors affecting waste generation rate and characteristics – Elements of integrated solid waste management – Requirements and salient features of Solid waste management rules (2016) –- Role of public and NGO‟s- Public Private participation – Elements of Municipal Solid Waste Management Plan.
UNIT II SOURCE REDUCTION, WASTE STORAGE AND RECYCLING
Waste Management Hierarchy – Reduction, Reuse and Recycling – source reduction of waste – On-site storage methods – Effect of storage, materials used for containers – segregation of solid wastes – Public health and economic aspects of open storage – case studies under Indian conditions – Recycling of Plastics and Construction/Demolition wastes.
UNIT III COLLECTION AND TRANSFER OF WASTES
Methods of Residential and commercial waste collection – Collection vehicles – Manpower – Collection routes – Analysis of waste collection systems; Transfer stations –location, operation and maintenance; options under Indian conditions – Field problems- solving.
UNIT IV PROCESSING OF WASTES
Objectives of waste processing – Physical Processing techniques and Equipment; Resource recovery from solid waste composting and bio methanation; Thermal processing options – case studies under Indian conditions.
UNIT V WASTE DISPOSAL
Land disposal of solid waste- Sanitary landfills – site selection, design and operation of sanitary landfills – Landfill liners – Management of leachate and landfill gas- Landfill bioreactor – Dumpsite Rehabilitation
TEXT BOOKS:
1. William A. Worrell, P. Aarne Vesilind (2012) Solid Waste Engineering, Cengage Learning, 2012.
2. John Pitchel (2014), Waste Management Practices-Municipal, Hazardous and industrial – CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, New York.
REFERENCES:
1. CPHEEO (2014), “Manual on Municipal Solid waste management, Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation, Government of India, New Delhi.
2 George Tchobanoglous and FrankKreith (2002). Hand book of Solid waste management, McGraw Hill, New York.