Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Overlaps with: Some overlap with ESL726, ESL732, ESL733, ESL735, ESL778, MSL818
Description
Introduction: Waste as a renewable re-source, Environmental regulations, Clean air act; Global production of power from waste: Waste management hierarchy, Waste handling and safety; Circular economy and zero waste; Waste as a resource: Waste classification and composition, Assessment of energy content in waste; Waste processing and its transportation; Waste to energy technologies: Combustion technologies for traditional waste, Rotary combustors, Fluidized bed combustors, Incineration, Anaerobic digestion and land- fill gas technologies, Refuse derived fuels through thermo-chemical route, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Plasma gasification/pyrolysis, Syngas utilization; Nuclear waste management; Waste to energy plants and environment: Emission limits for waste combustion, Emission control technologies.