Catalog Description:Engineering design, planning and analysis problems associated with storage, collection, processing and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes.
Pre-requisite(s):
MAP 2302
ENV 3001
CHM 2045
CHM 2046
Designation:Required
Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:
| Math & Science Topic | 0.0 credit hours |
| Engineering Topics | 3.0 credit hours |
| General Education Topics | 0.0 credit hours |
| Class Schedule: | Laboratory Schedule: | ||
| Number of sessions per week | 2 | Number of sessions per week | N/A |
| Duration of each session | 75 mins | Duration of each session | N/A |
Course Objectives
· Exposure to engineering design, planning and analysis of solid waste
management facilities
Topics:
· Overview of MSW management
· Appreciate the magnitude
of MSW issues
· Become familiar with integrated solid waste management
·
MSW regulations
· USPHS
· Solid Waste Disposal Act
· Resources
Recovery Act
· Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 and
amendments (1980) Hazardous and Solid Waste Act
· Waste characterization
·
Explain why it is important to characterize MSW
· Become familiar with
MSW descriptors
· Understand the methods used to characterize MSW
·
Perform calculations on waste compositions and properties
· Solid waste collectio
· Understand problems and concerns associated with MSW collection
·
Compare and contrast privately and public operated systems
· Understand
the types of collection systems
· Analyze collection systems
· Analysis
of MSW transfer stations
· Identify the benefits associated with the use
of transfer stations
· Prepare an economic analysis of transfer stations
·
Understand the design issues associated with the transfer stations
· Become
aware of other waste transportation issues such as interstate transport and
flow control
· Analysis of landfills
· Understand the biological
and physical processes associated with landfills
· Design leachate collection
systems, cover systems, gas collections, leachate management
· Calculate
gas production
· Size landfills
· Analysis of MSW Incinerators
·
Perform a thermodynamic analysis of incinerator
· Understand components
of incinerator
· Select air pollution equipment for incinerator
Textbook(s):
· Solid Waste Engineering , Vesilind, Worrell, Reinhart, Brooks/Cole,
2002
Reference(s):
· N/A
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
· Graduates will solve problems that address engineering economics issues
such as life-cycle analysis and the selection of alternatives.
· Graduates
will solve problems involving topics from chemistry such as stoichiometry, kinetics,
equilibrium and gases.
· Graduates will be exposed to the role of an engineer
involving ethics, professionalism, engineering practice and registration.
·
Graduates will demonstrate an ability to communicate their ideas effectively
through written and oral reports.· Graduates will demonstrate that they
have worked in teams to solve engineering problems.· Graduates will be
exposed to real-world problems and solutions.