Biotechnology for Waste Management detailed syllabus for Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the MSE 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 Materials Science & Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit MSE 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to MSE Open Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of biotechnology for waste management is as follows.
Unit I
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Unit II
WASTE BIOMASS AND ITS VALUE ADDITION
Types of waste biomass – Solid waste management – Nature of biomass feedstock – Biobased economy/process – Value addition of waste biomass – Biotransformation of biomass -Biotransformation of marine processing wastes – Direct extraction of biochemicals from biomass -Plant biomass for industrial application
Unit III
BIOCONVERSION OF WASTES TO ENERGY
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
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
Course Outcomes:
After completion of this course, the students should be able
- To learn the various methods biological treatment
- To know the details of waste biomass and its value addition
- To develop the bioconversion processes to convert wastes to energy
- To synthesize the chemicals and enzyme from wastes
- To produce the biocompost from wastes
- To apply the theoretical knowledge for the development of value added products
Text Books:
- Antoine P. T., (2017) “Biofuels from Food Waste Applications of Saccharification Using Fungal Solid State Fermentation”, CRC press
- Joseph C A., (2019)“Anaerobic Waste-Wastewater Treatment and Biogas Plants-A Practical Handbook”, CRC Press,
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