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Environmental Pollution and Control
Paper Code:
ENV 401
Credits:
3
Contact Hours:
45.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
10.00
Unit I:
Air pollution and its control
- Nature of pollutants: Biological, Chemical and Physical
- Sources of air pollution
- Types of air pollutants; their characteristics and sources
- Effects of major air pollutants(SOx, NOx, CO2, O3 PAN, PM10 & PM 2.5) on living and nonliving components
- Basic methods of air pollution control (Reduction at source, change of process
- Equipments used to control air pollution-cyclones, ESP, fabric filters & wet scrubbers.
10.00
Unit II:
Water pollution and its control
- Definition and Major sources
- Types of water pollutants(Inorganic,organic,O2 demanding, thermal, radioactive and disease causing agents)
- Effects of water pollutants on surface and ground water quality
- Control of water pollution (basic idea of sewage treatment plant)
9.00
Unit III:
Soil/Land pollution and its control
- Major sources of soil pollution
- Types of soil pollutants (domestic and municipal waste, industrial and mining waste, agricultural waste, radioactive and chemical waste)
- Control of soil pollution
7.00
Unit IV:
Noise pollution and its control
- Major sources of Noise pollution
- Effects of noise pollution on human health
- Control of noise pollution
9.00
Unit V:
Radiation and Thermal pollution and its control
- Major sources of radiation pollution
- Effects of radiation pollution
- Sources and effects of thermal pollution
- Control of radiation and thermal pollution
Essential Readings:
- Clark R.S., Marine Pollution, Clanderson Press Oxford (TB)
- Cunningham, W.P. Cooper, T.H. Gorhani, E & Hepworth, M.T. 2001, Environmental Encyclopedia, Jaico Publ. House, Mumabai, 1196p
- Gleick, H.P. 1993. Water in Crisis, Pacific Institute for Studies in Dev., Environment & Security. Stockholm Env. Institute Oxford Univ. Press.
- Survey of the Environment, The Hindu (M)
- Trivedi R. K. and P.K. Goel, Introduction to air pollution, Jaipur:Techno-Science Publication
- Agarwal, S.K.: Pollution Management: Volume I-V, Delhi: A.P. H. Publishing Corporation
- Rowe, P.V., Introduction to Environmental Pollution.
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