BETCK205F Waste Management syllabus for EE Stream Physics Group

INTRODUCTION TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT:

Classification of solid wastes (source and type based), solid waste management (SWM), elements of SWM, ESSWM (environmentally sound solid waste management) and EST (environmentally sound technologies), factors affecting SWM, Indian scenario, progress in MSW (municipal solid waste) management in India.Indian and global scenario of e-waste,

WASTE GENERATION ASPECTS:

Waste stream assessment (WSA), waste generation and composition, waste characteristics (physical and chemical), health and environmental effects (public health and environmental), comparative assessment of waste generation and composition of developing anddeveloped nations, a case study results from an Indian city, handouts on solid waste compositions.E-waste generation.

COLLECTION, STORAGE, TRANSPORT AND DISPOSAL OF WASTES:

Waste Collection, Storage and Transport: Collection components, storage-containers/collection vehicles, collection operation, transfer station, waste collection system design, record keeping, control, inventory and monitoring, implementing collection and transfer system, a case study. Waste Disposal: key issues in waste disposal, disposal options and selection criteria, sanitary landfill, landfill gas emission, leachate formation, environmental effects of landfill, landfill operation issues, a case study.

WASTE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES & SOURCE REDUCTION, PRODUCT RECOVERY & RECYCLING:

Purpose of processing, mechanical volume and size reduction, component separation, drying and dewatering. Source Reduction, Product Recovery and Recycling: basics, purpose, implementation monitoring and evaluation of source reduction, significance of recycling, planning of a recycling programme, recycling programme elements, commonly recycled materials and processes, a case study.

HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT:

Identification and classification of hazardous waste, hazardous waste treatment, pollution prevention and waste minimization, hazardous wastes management in India.E-waste recycling.

Course outcome (Course Skill Set)

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

CO1Apply the basics of solid waste management towards sustainable development

CO2Apply technologies to process waste and dispose the same.

CO3Design working models to convert waste to energy

CO4Identify and classify hazardous waste and manage the hazard

Assessment Details (both CIE and SEE)

• The weightage of Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE) is 50% and for Semester End Exam (SEE) is 50%.
• The minimum passing mark for the CIE is 40% of the maximum marks (20 marksout of 50).
• The minimum passing mark for the SEE is 35% of the maximum marks (18 marks out of 50).
• A student shall be deemed to have satisfied the academic requirements and earned the credits allotted to each subject/ course if the student secures not less than 35% (18 Marks out of 50) in the semester-end examination(SEE), and a minimum of 40% (40 marks out of 100) in the sum total of the CIE (Continuous Internal Evaluation) and SEE (Semester End Examination) taken together.

Continuous Internal Evaluation(CIE):

Two Unit Tests each of 30 Marks (duration 01 hour)

• First test after the completion of 30-40 % of the syllabus
• Second test after completion of 80-90% of the syllabus

One Improvement test before the closing of the academic termmay be conducted if necessary. However best two tests out of three shall be taken into consideration

Two assignments each of 10 Marks

The teacher has to plan the assignments and get them completed by the students well before the closing of the term so that marks entry in the examination portal shall be done in time.Formative (Successive) Assessments include Assignments/Quizzes/Seminars/Course projects/Field surveys/ Case studies/ Hands-on practice (experiments)/Group Discussions/ others. The Teachers shall choose the types of assignments depending on the requirement of the courseand plan to attain the Cos and POs. (to have a less stressed CIE, the portion of the syllabus should not be common /repeated for any of the methods of the CIE. Each method of CIE should have a different syllabus portion of the course). CIE methods /test question paper is designed to attain the different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy as per the outcome defined for the course.

The sum of two tests, two assignments, will be out of 100 marks and will be scaled down to 50 marks

Semester End Examination(SEE):

Theory SEE will be conducted by University as per the scheduled timetable, with common question papers for the subject (duration 03 hours)

• The question paper shall be set for 100 marks. The medium of the question paper shall be English/Kannada). The duration of SEE is 03 hours.
• The question paper will have 10questions. Two questions per module. Each question is set for 20 marks.
• Students have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module. The student has to answer for 100 marks and marks scored out of 100 shall be proportionally reduced to 50 marks.
• There will be 2 questions from each module. Each of the two questions under a module (with a maximum of 3 sub-questions), should have a mix of topicsunder that module.

Suggested Learning Resources:

Text Books:

1. Tchobaanoglous, G., Theisen, H., and Samuel A Vigil, Integrated Solid Waste Management,McGraw-Hill Publishers, 1993.

2. BilitewskiB., Hard HeG., MarekK., WeissbachA., and BoeddickerH., Waste Management, Springer, 1994.

Reference Books:

1.White, F. R., Franke P. R.,,& Hindle M., Integrated solid waste management: a life cycle inventory. McDougall,P. John Wiley & Sons. 2001

2. Nicholas, P., & Cheremisinoff, P. D., Handbook of solid waste management and waste minimization technologies, Imprint of Elsevier Science. 2005