Certificate IV in Food Technology

Waste Management AAA807

Lesson List

 References:

Handbook of Waste Management and Co-product Recovery in Food Processing (Volume 1)

Edited by K Waldron, Woodhead  March 2007  

 

Energy Conservation in the Food Processing Industry in “Physical Properties of Foods and Food Processing Systems”

 By Michael John Lewis

 

Lesson One

Discussion of type of material in waste water

Lesson Two      Pollution

                              Water from Thin Air

Maxwell WHISSON’s  Air Well

Liquid desiccant technology

Lesson 2A        Waste Assessment

                                        Getting Started (PDF)

                                                Conducting a Waste Assessment (PDF)

                                                Selecting, Implementing, and Monitoring Waste Reduction Options (PDF)

                                                Worksheet C: Facility Walk-Through (PDF)

Lesson Three    Energy / CO2 reduction

Lesson 3A       Water Conservation in SMEs through GP

                    Green Methodology

Lesson 3B      Environmental management and ISO 14001

Lesson 4B       Biogas Fermentation from Food Industry Waste

Lesson 4C      CELLULOSIC ETHANOL & SUSTAINABILITY:  THERE IS NO “FOOD VS. FUEL” CONFLICT

Lesson Five

Discussion of type of material in solid waste and Outline methods of disposing solid waste

Land Fill

Lesson Six

Incineration

Lesson Seven

Discuss solid waste generation in food processing and identify control strategies and identify possible bi-products for utilization

 

Lesson Eight

Outline current methods of treatment of wastewater

Melbourne’s Waste water treatment

Lesson nine

Outline the Soil filtration treatment of wastewater

Lesson Ten

Outline Grass filtration and Lagooning processes for waste treatment

Lesson Eleven

Outline the activated sludge digestion process

Lesson twelve

Discuss wastewater generation in food processing plants and the need for pretreatment and effluent control.

 

Lesson Thirteen 

Identify sources of raw water available to food processing plants and examine methods of municipal raw water treatment

 

Practice Test 

 

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