Municipal Solid Waste Management detailed syllabus for Environmental Engineering (Env) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University 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.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SOURCES AND TYPES 8 Sources and types of municipal solid wastes-waste generation rates-factors affecting generation, characteristics-methods of sampling and characterization; Effects of improper disposal of solid wastes-Public health and environmental effects. Elements of solid waste management -Social and Financial aspects – Municipal solid waste (M&H) rules -integrated management-Public awareness; Role of NGO”s.
Unit II
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Unit III
COLLECTION AND TRANSFER 8 Methods of Residential and commercial waste collection – Collection vehicles -Manpower- Collection routes – Analysis of collection systems; Transfer stations -Selection of location, operation & maintenance; options under Indian conditions – Field problems- solving.
Unit IV
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Unit V
DISPOSAL 9 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
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Tchobanoglous.G., Theisen, H. M., and Eliassen, R. Solid. Wastes: Engineering Principles and Management Issues. New York: McGraw Hill, 1977.
- Vesilind, P.A. and Rimer, A.E., Unit Operations in Resource Recovery Engineering, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1981
- Paul T Willams, Waste Treatment and Disposal, John Wiley and Sons, 2005
Reference Books:
- Manual on Municipal Solid Waste Management, CPHEEO, Ministry of Urban Development,Government of India, New Delhi, 2016.
- Bhide A.D. and Sundaresan, B.B. Solid Waste Management Collection, Processingand Disposal, 2001
- Manser A.G.R. and Keeling A.A, Practical Handbook of Processing and Recycling of Municipal solid Wastes, Lewis Publishers, CRC Press, 1996
- George Tchobanoglous and FrankKreith, Handbook of “Solid waste Management”, McGraw Hill, New York, 2002
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