Solid Waste Engineering: CVL 100 - Environmental Science & Engg

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CVL 100 – Environmental Science & Engg.

Solid Waste Engineering

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CVL 100 Details
Course Structure: 2-0-0 (L-T-P) Credits: 2

Slot: C
Lectures on: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays (only with prior message)
Time: 8.00 am to 8.50 am

Live Classes on Impartus

PPT shall be uploaded on the Impartus and Moodle

No Recording allowed & No recorded video shall be provided


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CVL 100 - Evaluation
Attend all lectures: That is very important.

Solid waste engineering portion will be there


only in the Major Exam.

Mark allocation (Tentative):-


Major Exam:
Quiz:
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Different types of solid waste ?
• Biomedical waste (BMW)
• E-waste
• Fly ash from thermal power plants
• C&D (construction and demolition) waste
• Industrial hazardous waste
• Plastic waste
• Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)

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Other solid waste streams
• Agro-wastes
• Scrap automobiles
• Institutional hazardous wastes
• Sludge from ETPs (Effluent treatment
plants) and STPs (Sewage treatment plants)
• Waste solar panels

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What is Municipal Solid waste (MSW) ?
• Waste collected by the Municipality
• Waste from houses, markets, parks,
institutions, offices, gardens, street
sweeping, etc etc
• Waste that contains: paper, plastics, glass,
leather, rubber, metals, stale food, leaves,
stones, debris, etc
• Waste other than: BMW, fly ash, haz waste,
radioactive waste, etc
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Issues with MSW
• Huge volume / quantity
• Possibility of decay
• Bad odour
• Pollution of air / soil / water
• Infectious diseases
• Bird / dog / rodent menace
• Poor aesthetics
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How to manage MSW ??
• Storage at source of generation
• Primary collection
• Municipal storage
• Transportation to processing stations
• Waste processing / treatment
• Final disposal

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Hierarchy of waste management
plan
• Reduction at the source – reuse
• Recovery and recycling
• Waste processing (with some recovery)
• Waste transformation (without recovery)
• Final disposal

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Municipal Solid Waste

MSW from Florida


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Opportunities & Innovations & Challenges 12
Single Container in IIT Delhi

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2 Container system in IIT Delhi

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MSW Transportation by Dumper Placer
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MSW Transfer stations: MSW transferred from small vehicles to
Bulk Refuse Carriers 16
Windrow Composting of MSW 17
Vermi-Composting
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Pilot Scale Reactor at IIT Roorkee

Rotary drum composting

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Loose Fluffy RDF
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MSW Incineration Plant at Okhla, Delhi
Land-dump at Okhla, Delhi

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References
Integrated solid waste management – George Tchobanoglous,
Theissen & Vigil, McGraw Hills
Solid Waste Engineering – Vesilind, Worrell & Reinhart,
Thomson publishers
Sustainable solid waste management – Joseph, Nagendran &
Thanasekaran, Allied Publishers
Solid and Liquid waste management, Rajaram, Siddiqui,
Agrawal & Khan, Prentice Hall India
Text book on solid waste management – Khan & Ahsan, CBS
Publishers
Manual on Municipal solid waste management – CPHEEO,
GoI
Rule Books on different solid wastes, Gazette Publications
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