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V. Aim of the course
Understanding the utilization and efficient management of waste from horticultural
processing industry.
The course is organized as follows:
No
Blocks
Units
1
Waste treatment and disposal
I
Introduction
methods
II
Waste treatment processes
III Waste disposal methods
2
Valorisation of wastes
I
Recovery of useful products
II
Treatment of solid and liquid waste
VI. Theory
Block 1:
Waste treatment and disposal methods
Unit I:
Introduction: Waste and its consequences in pollution and global
warming. Need for waste management. Waste and its classifications
and characterization-sampling methods, analysis and standards for
waste discharge. Importance of point and nonpoint sources of wastes,
Solid and liquid wastes.
Unit II:
Waste treatment processes: BOD, COD, DO, TS VS, ash, and different
unit operations in waste treatment processes.
Unit III:
Waste disposal methods: Nature of waste from processing industry
and their present disposal methods. Waste segregation, Primary
secondary and tertiary waste treatment processes, Conventional and
non-conventional waste treatment processes, aerobic and anaerobic
waste treatment processes.
Block 2:
Valorisation of wastes
Unit I:
Recovery of useful products: Valorization of wastes: Recovery of useful
products and by-products from waste, viz., organic acids, bioethanol,
biobutanol, colour, essence, pectin, oils, etc. animal feed and single
cell protein.
Unit II:
Treatment of solid and liquid waste: Technology of treatment of solid
and liquid wastes from fruit and vegetable industries. Immobilized
bioreactor in waste treatment.Anaerobic bioreactor and energy
production.Circular economics and waste management.

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