JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre Requisites

Environmental Engineering

Course Objectives

To make the students to understand solid waste, its collection, process

and disposal

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand solid

waste, its collection, process disposal

UNIT - I

Solid Waste and their Handling: Definition of solid wastes – types of solid wastes – Sources - Industrial, mining, agricultural and domestic – Characteristics. Solid waste Characteristics – Proximate and Ultimate analysis. - Impact on environmental health- Elements of Solid Waste Management.

UNIT - II

Collection, Segregation and Transport Management of Municipal Solid Wastes: Handling and segregation, Collection and storage of municipal solid wastes; Analysis of Collection systems. Transfer stations – labeling and handling of hazardous wastes. Stationary container system, hanked container system-routing for collection of solid waste, Transfer stations.

UNIT - III

Solid waste processing technologies. Mechanical and thermal volume reduction. Biological and chemical techniques for energy and other resource recovery: composting - types, vermicomposting, termigradation, fermentation. Incineration of solid wastes. Design principles.

UNIT - IV

Disposal in landfills: site selection, design, and operation of sanitary landfills; Leachate and landfill gas management; landfill closure and post-closure environmental monitoring; landfill remediation. Regulatory aspects of municipal solid waste management, Leachate management.

UNIT - V

Hazardous Waste and Management: Hazardous waste definition. Physical and biological routes of transport of hazardous substances – sources and characterization. Sampling and analysis of hazardous wastes –proximate analysis – survey analysis – directed analysis handling, collection, storage and transport. Hazardous waste treatment technologies TSDF

R16 B.TECH CIVIL & ENV. ENGG.

concept - Physical, chemical and thermal treatment of hazardous waste: solidification, chemical fixation, encapsulation, pyrolysis and incineration. Hazardous waste landfills - Site selections, design and operation. HW reduction, recycling and reuse, Regulatory aspects of HWM/HWM rules- Bio Medical Waste Management. E Waste Management

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Hazardous waste management Charles A. Wentz. Second edition 1995. McGraw Hill International.
• 2. Integrated solid waste management George Tchobanoglous, Hilary Theisen & Samuel A. Vigil.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Solid waste Engineering by William A. Worrel, and P. Aarne Vesilind Cengage Learning 2012.
• 2. Criteria for hazardous waste landfills – CPCB guidelines 2000.
• 3. Standard handbook of Hazardous waste treatment and disposal by Harry M. Freeman, McGraw Hill 1997.
• 4. Management of Solid waste in developing countries by Frank Flintoff, WHO regional publications 1976. R16 B.TECH CIVIL & ENV. ENGG.