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49123 Waste and Pollution Management

UTS: Engineering: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Credit points: 6 cp

Subject level: Postgraduate

Result Type: Grade and marks

Requisite(s): 120 credit points of completed study in C10061 Bachelor of Engineering Diploma in Engineering Practice OR 120 credit points of completed study in C10066 Bachelor of Engineering Science OR 120 credit points of completed study in C10067 Bachelor of Engineering
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

Subject coordinator

Prof S Vigneswaran
Room: 2.523
Phone: 02 9514 2641, 02 9514 2642; Email: S.Vigneswaran@uts.edu.au

If you wish to discuss your questions or need further help with understanding concepts in the subject, please see the lecturer after lectures, or during consultation hours.  If you are unable to come then, please email and suggest several alternative times when you will be available.  Email messages will be responded to within two working days. Please do not make appointments by leaving phone messages.

Handbook description

In this subject waste minimisation and pollution control are treated in an integrated and comprehensive manner, permitting evaluation of benefits of waste minimisation to industry and of pollution reduction in the environment. Students are introduced to leading edge technologies of waste minimisation and pollution control such as membrane processes; raw materials extraction and refinement; product development including design, manufacture, use, re-use/recycling and environmental auditing of the product life cycle. An understanding of management techniques for solid/hazardous and liquid wastes is developed. Other topics comprehensively covered include institutional barriers to improving the technologies of waste technology and management practices adopted in domestic waste, the paper industry, metal plating industry, food and dairy industry, household waste and water recycling in buildings.

Subject objectives/outcomes

This subject aims to:

  • provide students with an integrated and comprehensive knowledge of waste minimisation and pollution control are treated,
  • evaluation of benefits of waste minimisation to industry and of pollution reduction in the environment;
  • teach students leading edge technologies;
  • familiarise them with methods of management techniques for solid/hazardous and liquid wastes
  • provide an overview of institutional barriers to improving the technologies of waste technology and management practices adopted in domestic waste, the paper industry, metal plating industry, food and dairy industry, household waste and water recycling in buildings.

Contribution to graduate profile

The subject covers the environmental issues relating to domestic and industrial waste treatment processes. It will give students

  1. Deepening and boarding of skills and knowledge in waste minimisation and pollution control
  2. Disciplinary, professional and technical knowledge
  3. Application of expertise appropriate to the practice
  4. Understanding the contexts of professional work

Teaching and learning strategies

This subject includes three blocks of lectures, tutorials and computer laboratories through the semester.  Each block will be held at 9.30 am to 5 pm on a Tuesday and 9.30 am to 1 pm on a Wednesday. The course is taught by lectures and assignments.

This subject includes three blocks of lectures, tutorials and computer laboratories through the semester.  Each block will be held at 19.30 am to 5 pm on a Tuesday and 9.30 am to 1 pm on a Wednesday. Lectures are supported by a lecture notes and readings and are placed on UTS online.  You will gain most from the lectures if you read each block's material in advance.

The course is taught by lecture, assignment and project work.

As a student in this subject you are expected to attend and participate in all tutorials, actively contribute to discussions, complete your assignments by their due dates.

Content

Introduction: Pollution control and needs for clean technology; Advances in pollution control: Processes and case studies, technological aspects of waste management; Techniques to achieve cleaner technologies with examples; Waste minimisation with case studies of developed and developing countries; Waste auditing in industries with examples on tanning and metal plating industries; Institutional barriers to waste minimisation: Employee incentives; Strategies for promotion of cleaner production for sustainable development; Treatment and utilisation practices for recycle of sewage and sludge; Solid and hazardous waste minimisation and management.

Minimum requirements

In order to pass the subject, you must attempt,

  • complete, and submit each of  the Assessment tasks and
  • earn an overall total of 50 marks or more for the subject

Required text(s)

  • Vigneswaran S, Visvanathan C and Jegatheesan V, 1998, ‘Industrial waste minimisation’, Ensearch, Malaysia
  • Course notes are available at the bookshop

The CN Number is: Waste and Pollution Management, CN 1821, Price:  $28.00

Recommended text(s)

Information on specific text will be provided in class

Indicative references

see recommended text

Other resources

see UTSonline