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Shubham Deshmukh
Shubham Deshmukh
lOMoARcPSD|4454852
2019-20
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ROLL NO : - 36
SECTION : - A
ENROLLMENT NO : - 300
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ABSTRACT
This work will evolve appropriate solid waste management strategy based
on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle. This work will be a feasibility study
for a Solid Waste Management System for the Campus.
1.0.Introduction
NIT Calicut ranks one of the top colleges in India in providing technical
education for both under graduates and post graduate students. It is the top
engineering college in the state according to the government statistics. Today it
has around 6000 students and around 250 faculties. In spite of all these
advances in technical and educational fields it faces severe environmental
concerns which needs to be addressed immediately. The waste management
issues in the college was a hot topic in several local newspapers recently.
The sight of a dustbin overflowing and the stench rising from it are all too
familiar sights and smells of a crowded city. You look away from it and hold
your nose as you cross it. Even our campus is not an exception. Waste
management is seldom done properly in NIT Calicut campus. Lack of waste
bins, heap of wastes in front of E hostel, tiresome job of daily labourers in
college to keep the campus clean – all these are familiar sights in our campus
life. Have you ever thought that you also have a role to play in the creation of
this stench? That you can also play a role in the lessening of this smell and
making your campus look a little more attractive and lessen the work of daily
labourers in NITC if you follow proper methods of disposal of the wastes
generated? Since the beginning, humankind has been generating waste, be it the
bones and other parts of animals they slaughter for their food or the wood they
cut to make their carts. With the progress of civilization, the waste generated
became of a more complex nature. At the end of the 19th century the industrial
revolution saw the rise of the world of consumers. Not only did the air get more
and more polluted but the Earth itself became more polluted with the generation
of non-biodegradable solid waste. The increase in population and urbanization
was also largely responsible forth increase in solid waste. Solid waste is the
unwanted or useless solid materials generated from combined residential,
industrial and commercial activities in a given area. It may be categorized
according to its origin (domestic, industrial, commercial, construction or
institutional); according to its contents (organic material, glass, metal, plastic
paper etc.); or according to hazard potential (toxic, non-toxin, flammable,
radioactive, infectious etc.).Management of solid waste reduces or eliminates
adverse impacts on the environment and human health and supports economic
development and improved quality of life. A Number of processes are involved
in effectively managing solid wastes in a human society. These include
monitoring, collection, transport, processing, recycling and disposal.
Through this project we intend to analyse the solid waste generation in
our college campus, the disposal techniques adopted and their effectiveness. We
also make an attempt to propose an alternate system for the proper waste
management without disturbing the environment.
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Waste water from the hostels goes to an open pit near the canteen which
is a serious health and environmental concern in the college. The open drainage
system is the reason for a large number of mosquitoes in the college premises at
night . This issue was a hot topic in newspapers during recent times. Mosquito
repellent chemicals are used often but which are not so effective. The picture
below shows the mosquitoes breeding in logged water found in mega hostel
premises.
Aerobic digestion.
Anaerobic digestion.
1. Hydrolysis
2. Acidification
3. Methanogenesis
Symbiosis of bacteria:
ARTI Biogas Plant: A compact digester for producing biogas from food
waste
ARTI has developed a compact biogas plant which uses waste food rather
than dung/manure as feedstock, to supply biogas for cooking. The plant is
sufficiently compact to be used by urban households, and about 2000 are
currently in use – both in urban and rural households in Maharashtra. A few
have been installed in other parts of India and even elsewhere in the world. The
design and development of this simple, yet powerful technology for the people,
has won ARTI the Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy 2006 in the Food
Security category. This makes ARTI the only organization in the world to win
the prestigious Ashden Award twice. ARTI won its first Ashden Award in 2002
for its chain of technologies for converting agricultural waste into charcoal, and
using this as a clean domestic fuel.
4.3.2. Energy
4.3.3. Digestate
The objective of the project was to analyse the effectiveness of the current
waste management systems in NITC and to put forward a new and effective one.