AI3010 Waste and By Product Utilization Syllabus:

AI3010 Waste and By Product Utilization Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To expose the students with different byproducts of food industry and waste water management of any industry.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO WASTE WATER TREATMENT

Types and formation of by-products and waste; magnitude of Waste generation in different food processing industries; concept scope and maintenance of waste management and effluent treatment.

UNIT II CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

Temperature, pH, Oxygen demands (BOD, COD), fat, oil and grease content, metal content, forms of phosphorous and sulphur in waste waters, microbigy of waste, other ingredients like insecticide, pesticides and fungicides residues.

UNIT III BY-PRODUCTS UTILIZATION

Waste utilization in various industries, furnaces and boilers run on agricultural wastes and byproducts, briquetting of biomass as fuel, production of charcoal briquette, generation of electricity using surplus biomass, producer gas generation and utilization, waste treatment and disposal, design, construction, operation and management of institutional community and family size biogas plants, concept of vermi-composting.

UNIT IV PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

Pre-treatment of waste: sedimentation, coagulation, flocculation and floatation, Secondary treatments: Biological and chemical oxygen demand for different food plant waste- trickling filters, oxidation ditches, activated sludge process, rotating biological contractors, Tertiary treatments.

UNIT V ADVANCED WASTE WATER TREATMENT PROCESSES

Sand, coal and activated carbon filters, phosphorous, sulphur, nitrogen and heavy metals removal, Assessment, treatment and disposal of solid waste; and biogas generation.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOK:

1. Huang, R.T. 1982. Compost Engineering: Principles and Practices.John Willey & Sons, New York.

REFERENCES

1. Standards, ASAE: Manure Production and Characteristics. ASAE, NewYork.
2. USDA: Agricultural Waste Management Field Hand Book, New York, USA.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1 Types of waste and influences
CO2 Waste water management from any food industry.
CO3 By product utilization from processing plants of cereals, pulses
CO4 Hands on training in wastewater treatment process
CO5 Advance procession techniques for waste water treatment