Plastic and E waste Management detailed syllabus for Environmental Engineering (Env) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Env students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Environmental Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Env 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Env Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of plastic and e waste management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SOURCES AND CHARACTERIZATION Plastic and environment value additions, global policy, regulations, waste energy management. Waste treatment of various plastic plants, estimations of power requirement & efficiency of size reduction operation of plastics, environment pollution aspects. Need for recycling – Sorting and segregation of waste – Plastics identification- Plastics Production and composition – Plastics waste – Composition, quantities and disposal alternatives.
Unit II
PRIMARY RECYCLING OF PLASTIC WASTES Primary recycling – Equipment’s for primary recycling. Specific recycling techniques – PE films, PP battery case – Crushing and separation – PET films.
Unit III
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Unit IV
TERTIARY RECYCLING OF PLASTIC WASTES Use of recyclable plastics in motor vehicles – recoverable materials – disposal of residuals -recyclable plastic components – virgin and recycled HDPE – Fluorinated and unfluorinated HDPE – fuel tanks. Tertiary recycling – Reactors used – Advantages – Dry method wet method – use of recyclable plastics in automobiles.
Unit V
E WASTE MANAGEMENT E- waste; composition and generation. Global context in e- waste; E-waste pollutants, E waste hazardous properties, Effects of pollutant (E- waste) on human health and surrounding environment, domestic e-waste disposal, Basic principles of E waste management, Component of E waste management, Technologies for recovery of resources from electronic waste, resource recovery potential of e-waste, steps in recycling and recovery of materials- mechanical processing, technologies for recovery of materials, occupational and environmental health perspectives of recycling e-waste in India
Course Outcomes:
On completing this course,
the students would understand the impact of plastic waste on environment and learn the technologies available for recycling and reusing of both commercial and engineering plastics. They also become familiarize with various
- Sources of plastics waste generation and the segregation methods for recycling the plastics
- Learn about various equipment for recycling of plastics
- Understand the process involved in secondary recycling of plastics
- Comprehend the tertiary recycling of plastics
- Understand the process involved in E waste management
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Degradable polymers, Recycling and Plastic Waste Management (Eds) Ann Christine Albertson and Samuel J. Huang, Marcel Dekker, New York.
- John Schiles, Polymer Recycling.
- Recycling and Plastics Waste Management, Edited by Dr.J.S.Anand, CIPET, 1 997.
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