Subject Code: CE6L108 Name: Solid Waste Management L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3

Prerequisite: None
Solid waste management: Sources, Composition and Properties of Municipal Solid Waste, Engineering principles; Generation, Onsite handling, storage and processing including segregation; Collection, Recycling, Transfer and transport,Waste processing, Recovery of resources, Waste processing technologies, Biological, chemical and thermal technologies – Composting, Anaerobic digestion, Incineration and pyrolysis,Disposal of solid waste including sanitary landfill, planning, siting, design, closure and post-closure monitoring; Regional/Integrated solid waste management related issues. Principles of E-waste Management.
Biomedical waste: Regulatory framework, categorization; generation, collection, transport, treatment and disposal.
Hazardous Waste Fundamentals,   Definition, Classification, Generation, Regulatory process, Current Management Practices, Treatment and Disposal Methods, Physicochemical processes, Biological processes, Stabilization and solidification; Thermal methods;  Land disposal, Remediation of Contaminated Sites.
Books

  • Tchobanoglous G., Theisen H., and Vigil S.A., Integrated Solid Waste Management: Principles and Management Issues, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1993.
  • Peavy H. S., Rowe D. R. and Tchobanoglous G., Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill International Edition.
  • LaGrega, M.D., Buckingham P.L., and Evans J.C., Hazardous Waste Management, McGraw-Hill International Editions, 1994.
  • Martin E.J. and Johnson J.H., Hazardous Waste Management Engineering, van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1987.
  • Wentz C.A., Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 1995
  • VesilindP.A., Worrell W and Reinhart, Solid waste Engineering, Thomson Learning Inc., Singapore, 2002.
  • CPHEEO, Manual on Municipal Solid waste management, Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation, Government of India, New Delhi, 2000.
  • Bhatia, S. Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors