Unit1
Unit 1
Types and formation of by-products and waste; Magnitude of waste generation in different food processing industries; Uses of different agricultural by-products from rice mill, sugarcane industry, oil mill etc.
Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of EPBM and Unit operation in process engineering concepts.
Syllabus
5 unitsUnit2
Unit 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.
Unit3
Unit 3
Waste utilization in various industries, furnaces and boilers run on agricultural wastes and byproducts, briquetting of biomass as fuel, production of charcoal briquette, generation of electricity using surplus biomass, producer gas generation and utilization.
Unit4
Unit 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. Secondary treatments: Biological and chemical oxygen demand for different food plant waste–trickling filters, oxidation ditches, activated sludge process, rotating biological contractors, lagoons,
Unit5
Unit 5
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
Course Outcomes (COs)
After completion of the course student will be able to:
- CO1Understand the types and formation of by-products and waste, uses of different agricultural by-products.K2&K1
- CO2Understand 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.K2
- CO3Understand utilization of waste in various industries, biomass as fuel, charcoal briquette, and generation of electricity using surplus biomass and remember producer gas generation.K2&K1
- CO4Understand the design consideration of waste treatment and disposal of community & family size biogas plants, vermin-composting and pre- treatment of waste.K4&K2
- CO5Familiar with the secondary treatments for food plant wastes, tertiary treatments, effluent treatment plants and environmental performance of food industry.K2
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
- of waste in the Food Industry. Springer Science & Business media, LLC 233 New York.
- Prashar, Anupama and Bansal, Pratibha. 2007-08. Industrial Safety and Environment. S.K. Kataria and sons, New Delhi
- Garg, S K. 1998. Environmental Engineering (Vol. II) – Sewage Disposal and Air Pollution Engineering. Khanna Publishers, New Delhi
- Bhatia, S.C. 2001. Environmental Pollution and Control in Chemical Process Industries. Khanna
- Publishers, New Delhi.
Official AKTU syllabus
This subject is on page 8, 9 of the original AKTU PDF.