Waste and By-Product Utilization detail syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri), 2021-22 scheme is taken from AKTUs official website and presented for the AKTU B.Tech students. For the course code (KAG072), exam duration, teaching hr/week, practical hr/week, total marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration, credits, and other details do visit complete semester subjects post given below.
For the Agri 7th Sem Syllabus for AKTU B.Tech 2021-22 Scheme you can visit Agri 7th Sem 2021-22 Scheme. For the Departmental Elective-4 scheme of Agri 7th Sem 2021-22 regulation do refer to Departmental Elective-4 Agri 7th Sem scheme. The detail syllabus for waste and by-product utilization is as follows.
Pre-Requisites:
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the types and formation of by-products and waste, uses of different agricultural by-products.
- Understand the concept, scope, maintenance of waste management and effluent treatment, Waste water contents and treatments and also familiar with microbiology of waste, ingredients like insecticide, pesticides & fungicides residues.
- Understand utilization of waste in various industries, biomass as fuel, charcoal briquette, and generation of electricity using surplus biomass and remember producer gas generation.
- Understand the design consideration of waste treatment and disposal of community & family size biogas plants, vermin-composting and pretreatment of waste.
- Familiar with the secondary treatments for food plant wastes, tertiary treatments, effluent treatment plants and environmental performance of food industry.
Module 1:
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Module 2:
Concept, scope and maintenance of waste management and effluent treatment, Temperature, pH, Oxygen demands (BOD, COD), fat, oil and grease content, metal content, forms of phosphorous and sulphur in waste waters, microbiology of waste, other ingredients like insecticide, pesticides and fungicides residues.
Module 3:
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Module 4:
Waste treatment and disposal, design, construction, operation and management of institutional community and family size biogas plants, concept of vermin-composting, Pre-treatment of waste: sedimentation, coagulation, flocculation and floatation.
Module 5:
Secondary treatments: Biological and chemical oxygen demand for different food plant waste-trickling filters, oxidation ditches, activated sludge process, rotating biological contractors, lagoons, Tertiary treatments: Advanced waste water treatment process-sand, coal and activated carbon filters , phosphorous, sulphur, nitrogen and heavy metals removal, Assessment, treatment and disposal of solid waste; and biogas generation, Effluent treatment plants, Environmental performance of food industry to comply with ISO-(14001) standards
Suggested Reading:
- Markel, I.A. 1981. Managing Livestock Waste, AVI Publishing Co.
- Pantastico, ECB. 1975. Post Harvest Physiology, Handling and utilization of Tropical and Subtropical fruits and vegetables, AVI Pub. Co.
- Shewfelt, R.L. and Prussi, S.E. 1992. Post-Harvest Handling – A Systems approach, Academic Press Inc. USDA. 1992. Agricultural Waste Management Field Hand book. USDA, Washington DC.
- Weichmann J. 1987. Post Harvest Physiology of vegetables, Marcel and Dekker Verlag. V.K. Joshi & S.K. Sharma. Food Processing Waste Management: Treatment & Utilization. New India Publishing Agency.
- Vasso Oreopoulou and Winfried Russ (Edited). 2007. Utilization of By-products and Treatment
For the syllabus of all the subjects of B.Tech Agri 7th Sem, 2021-22 scheme do visit Agri 7th Sem syllabus subjects.
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