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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND CONTROL [1]

Paper Code: 
ENV 401
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
7.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to Environmental pollution
  • Definition  and Types :water, soil/land, noise, air, radiation, thermal
  • Nature of pollutants: Biological, Chemical and Physical
10.00
Unit II: 
Air pollution and its control
  • Definition and Sources
  • Types of air pollutants; their characteristics and sources
  • Effects of major air pollutants(SOx, NOx, CO, PAN) on living and nonliving components
  • Basic methods of air pollution control (Reduction at source, change of process
  • Basics of equipments used to control air pollution-cyclones, ESP, fabric filters & wet scrubbers
10.00
Unit III: 
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
  • Control of water pollution (basic idea of waste water treatment)

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Soil/Land pollution and its control
  • Definition and Major sources
  • Types of soil pollutants (domestic and municipal waste, industrial and mining waste, agricultural waste, radioactive and chemical waste)
  • Control of soil pollution

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Noise pollution and its control
  • Definition and Major sources
  • Effects of noise pollution on human health
  • Control of noise 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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