Biotechnology for Waste Management detailed syllabus for Civil Engineering (Civil) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Civil 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 Civil Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Civil 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Civil Open Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of biotechnology for waste management is as follows.
Course Outcomes:
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Unit I
BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT PROCESS 9 Fundamentals of biological process – Anaerobic process – Pretreatment methods in anaerobic process – Aerobic process, Anoxic process, Aerobic and anaerobic digestion of organic wastes -Factors affecting process efficiency – Solid state fermentation – Submerged fermentation – Batch and continous fermentation
Unit II
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Unit III
BIOCONVERSION OF WASTES TO ENERGY 9 Perspective of biofuels from wastes – Bioethanol production – Biohydrogen Production – dark and photofermentative process – Biobutanol production – Biogas and Biomethane production – Single stage anaerobic digestion, Two stage anaerobic digestion – Biodiesel production – Enzymatic hydrolysis technologies
Unit IV
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Unit V
BIOCOMPOSTING OF ORGANIC WASTES 9 Overview of composting process – Benefitis of composting, Role of microorganisms in composting -Factors affecting the composting process – Waste Materials for Composting, Fundamentals of composting process – Composting technologies, Composting systems – Nonreactor Composting, Reactor composting – Compost Quality
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Palmiro P. and Oscar F.DUrso, (2016) Biotransformation of Agricultural Waste and By-Products,The Food, Feed, Fibre, Fuel (4F) Economy, Elsevier
- Kaur Brar S., Gurpreet Singh D. and Carlos R.S., (Eds), (2014)Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals, Springer.
- Keikhosro K, Editor, (2015) Lignocellulose-Based Bioproducts, Springer.
- John P, (2014) Waste Management Practices-Municipal, Hazardous, and Industrial, Second Edition, CRC Press, 2014
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Civil Engineering 7th Sem, visit Civil 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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