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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BE(Minor) - SEMESTER– IV EXAMINATION – WINTER 2023
Subject Code:114AB01 Date:08-02-2024
Subject Name: Hazardous Waste Management Technology
Time: 02:30 PM TO 05:00 PM Total Marks:70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
4. Simple and non-programmable scientific calculators are allowed.

Q.1 (a) What is hazardous waste? What are its characteristics? 03

(b) Give the waste classification, and why is it important? 04

(c) Write about the importance of ISWM as a Waste Management 07
Approach.

Q.2 (a) Write short note on: roles of NGOs for waste management 03
(b) What are the main provisions of the Solid Waste Management 04
Rules (SWM), 2016?

(c) Which are the responsibilities of industries in complying with 07

hazardous waste regulations?

OR
(c) What are the chemical and biological properties of hazardous 07
waste.

Q.3 (a) Write about the source of reduction of waste? 03

(b) How the proper labeling and handling of hazardous waste are 04
essential to protect human health?
(c) Discuss landfill method as a tool for effective solid waste 07
management.
OR
Q.3 (a) What factors affect hazardous waste transport? 03

(b) Write about the objectives of waste processing for Hazardous 04

Waste.

(c) What are the factors must be consider while designing collection
route?

07

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Q.4 (a) Explain storage of hazardous waste 03

(b) What is importance of processing of solid waste? 04

(c) Write short note on E waste management. 07

OR
Q.4 (a) Enlist the various methods for collection of municipal solid 03
waste

(b) What is recycling? How source segregation will help in the 04

same?

(c) Discuss nuclear waste management fundamentals. 07

Q.5 (a) Write about the common disposal methods for hazardous waste? 03
(b) Explain advantages of solidification of hazardous wastes. 04

(c) Discuss the solid waste generation scenario of country, and the 07
challenges to manage the same thereafter.

OR
Q.5 (a) Write about healthcare waste generation? 03
(b) Explain Merits of various methods of disposal. 04
(c) What is sustainable development? Discuss the same in context 07
to solid waste management

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