Pollution Monitoring And Control

Paper Code: 
ENV- 222
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
20.00
Unit I: 
Air Pollution Monitoring
  • Aims and objectives of air quality monitoring
  • Instruments for sampling gaseous pollutants
  • Particulate matter
  • Sampling of particulates (suspended and respirable) by High Volume Sampler/ Respirable dust sampler
  • Stack sampling Techniques:Planning the study,Selection of sampling location, Representative sample,Size of sampling point, Traverse points, Determination of gas composition, Determination of moisture content and   Determination of temperature and velocity
20.00
Unit II: 
Air Pollution Control
 
  • Air pollution control from stationary sources
  • Control of air pollution by equipments;Settling chambers, Separators,Cyclones, Filters, Electrostatic precipitators, Scrubbers
  • Control of gaseous Contaminants;Absorption, Adsorption, Combustion,Masking and Counteracting,Control at the Source
  • Preventive Techniques;Shift of the sources,Substitution of raw material and fuels, Process modification
  • Alteration of equipments and good operating practices
15.00
Unit III: 
Water Pollution Monitoring and Control
  • Sources and characteristics of industrial waste water and sewage
  • Treatment of sewage:- Primary, secondary and tertiary(trickling filters and activated sludge process)
  • Attached and Suspended growth system
  • Sludge dewatering, sludge thickening, ETP-paper mill, textile, sugar mill,
  • Basics of MBBR, RBC
  • Concept of CETP
10.00
Unit IV: 
Soil Sampling and Analysis
  • Soil Profile
  • Chemical and Minearological properties of soil
  • Methods of Soil Sampling
  •  Soil microbes and their functions
  •  Different kinds of fertilizers (N,P,K) and their effect on soil characteristics
  • Soil contamination by metallic pollutants
10.00
Unit V: 
Noise Pollution Monitoring and Control
  • Measurement of Noise level
  • Prevention and control of Noise Pollution
  • Noise Pollution Analyser; Sound absorption coefficient (ast), sound absorbing materials, reverbration time; Acoustic silencers, mufflers, barriers, vibration and impact isolation.
Essential Readings: 
  1. Baird, C. and Cann, M.( 2008). Environmental Chemistry. W.H. Freeman and Company.
  2. Bhargava, S. K. (2008). Practical Methods for Water and Air Pollution Monitoring, New  Age International Pub., New Delhi.
  3. Bhatia, S.C. (2007). Textbook of Air Pollution and Its Control. Atlantic Pub., New Delhi.
  4. Clarke, A. G. (2008). Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring, Gaseous and Particulate Emissions, Springer
  5. Evans, G. (2005). Biowaste and Biological Waste Treatment. James and James (Science  Publishers) Ltd, U.K..
  6. Gurnham, C. F.( 2004). Principle of Industrial Waste Treatment. John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
  7. Keith, L. H.( 1988). Principles of Environmental Sampling. American Chemical Society.
  8. Lutgens, F.K. and Tarbuck, E.J.(2013). The atmosphere:Introduction to Meterology.12th ed.Pearsons publication Inc. USA
  9. Sanai, V.S. (1990). Fundamentals of Soil. Kalayani Publishers, New Delhi..
  10. Sharma, B.K., (2001). Environmental Chemistry. Geol Publ. House, Meerut Publication,India
  11. Shukla, S. K. and Srivastava, P. R. (1992). Methodology of Environmental monitoring and Assessment. Commonwealth Publishers.
  12. Wang,K.C., Pereira,N.C.and Hung, Y.T. (2004). .Air Pollution Control Engineering. Humana Press Inc.New Jersy
Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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