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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 and 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
- 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, sound absorbing materials, reverbration time; Acoustic silencers, mufflers, barriers, vibration and impact isolation
Essential Readings:
- Baird, C. and Cann, M.( 2008). Environmental Chemistry. W.H. Freeman and Company.
- Bhargava, S. K. (2008). Practical Methods for Water and Air Pollution Monitoring, New Age International Pub., New Delhi.
- Bhatia, S.C. (2007). Textbook of Air Pollution and Its Control. Atlantic Pub., New Delhi.
- Clarke, A. G. (2008). Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring, Gaseous and Particulate Emissions, Springer
- Evans, G. (2005). Biowaste and Biological Waste Treatment. James and James (Science Publishers) Ltd, U.K..
- Gurnham, C. F.( 2004). Principle of Industrial Waste Treatment. John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
- Keith, L. H.( 1988). Principles of Environmental Sampling. American Chemical Society.
- Lutgens, F.K. and Tarbuck, E.J.(2013). The atmosphere:Introduction to Meterology.12th ed.Pearsons publication Inc. USA
- Sanai, V.S. (1990). Fundamentals of Soil. Kalayani Publishers, New Delhi..
- Sharma, B.K., (2001). Environmental Chemistry. Geol Publ. House, Meerut Publication,India
- Shukla, S. K. and Srivastava, P. R. (1992). Methodology of Environmental monitoring and Assessment. Commonwealth Publishers.
- Wang,K.C., Pereira,N.C.and Hung, Y.T. (2004). .Air Pollution Control Engineering. Humana Press Inc.New Jersy
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