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POLLUTION MONITORING AND CONTROL
Course objectives
This course will enable the students to -
- Focus on the various methods of monitoring and equipments and techniques used in control of Environmental pollutants
- Develop skills for executing Environmental monitoring programmes for pollution prevention and remediation
Course Outcomes (COs):
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ENV 222 |
Environmental pollution monitoring and control |
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: CO29:Identify monitoring criteria for various pollutants which would help in planning a monitoring programme CO30: Discuss the working principles of various pollution control equipments CO31: Demonstrate pollution prevention and remediation techniques CO32: Formulate plan for monitoring of various environmental pollutants |
Approach in teaching: Guided and shared readings, Discussions, Demonstration, Use of informative videos, discussion of case studies Learning activities for the students: Analysis and suggestions of case studies ,Power point presentations for result analysis of research papers |
Case Study discussion. Assignment. Quiz, Class test, Semester End Examination
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- Aims and objectives of air quality monitoring
- Instruments for sampling gaseous pollutant
- Sampling of particulates (suspended and respirable) by High Volume Sampler/ Respirable dust sampler
- Stack sampling Technique
- 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
- Sources and characteristics of industrial waste water and sewage
- Treatment of sewage: Primary, secondary and tertiary
- Attached and Suspended growth system: trickling filters, activated sludge process, MBBR, RBC
- Concept of CETP
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Wang,K.C., Pereira,N.C.and Hung, Y.T. (2004). .Air Pollution Control Engineering. Humana Press Inc.New Jersy
