Course Description
This course is designed to provide knowledge on solid and liquid wastes and their operations by considering many subjects such as characterisation of municipal solid waste, collection and transfer stations. It also coves waste minimisation, recycling and waste treatment, including size reduction, composing and incineration, emerging technologies. It explores issues in landfill disposal, including preparation of landfill management plans and operational aspects and gives an introduction to planning of waste management systems.
Course Objectives
- Identifying the major components of wastes
- Learning some alternatives of waste management
- Being able to evaluate various options for hazardous waste management
- Understanding modern treatment technologies
- Evaluating different case studies and applying the learnt material
Who Should Attend?
- Environmental engineers
- Civil engineers officers
- Managers of municipal waste departments
- Operators of solid waste facilities
- Those seeking a career in waste management
Course Details/Schedule
- Introduction
- Evolution of solid waste management
- Sources of wastes
- Types of wastes
- Composition of municipal solid waste
- Physical, chemical, and biological properties of municipality solid waste
- Management and planning issues
- Hazardous wastes found in municipal solid waste
- Solid waste generation
- Waste handling
- Waste separation
- Waste storage
- Waste processing at the source
- Collection of solid waste
- Material separation
- Processing technologies
- Thermal conversion technologies
- Biological and chemical conversion technologies
- Recycling of materials found in solid waste
- Disposal of solid waste
- Closure of landfills
