Environmental Pollution and Control

Syllabus

1. Introduction (4 hours)
   1. Understanding and defining pollution
   2. Degradation of global environmental health
   3. Root causes, impact and mitigation of pollution
2. Fundamental Concepts of Pollutant Transport (5 hours)
   1. Units of measurement
   2. Material balance
   3. Energy fundamentals
   4. Stoichiometry
   5. Enthalpy in chemical systems
   6. Chemical equilibria
3. Water Pollution (9 hours)
   1. Hydrological cycle
   2. Water pollutants
   3. Biochemical and chemical oxygen demand
   4. Effect of oxygen-demanding wastes on rivers
   5. Water quality in lakes and reservoirs
   6. Biological wastewater treatment
4. Air Pollution (9 hours)
   1. Overview of emissions and its effects
   2. Clean air act
   3. Progress in controlling emissions and improving air quality
   4. Source apportionment and criteria pollutants
   5. Stationary sources
   6. Temperature inversions
   7. Indoor air quality
   8. National and WHO guidelines of air quality
5. Noise Pollution (3 hours)
   1. Sources and effects of noise pollution
   2. Rating systems
   3. National and WHO guidelines of traffic noise
   4. Noise control techniques
6. Solid Waste Management (9 hours)
   1. Solid waste and its properties
   2. Municipal solid waste management and source reduction
   3. Lifecycle assessment
   4. Waste management methods: Recycling; Composting; Landfilling; Waste-to-energy technology
7. Climate Science (6 hours)
   1. Earth atmosphere
   2. Global temperature and energy balance
   3. Greenhouse gas (GHGs)
   4. Ozone depletion and aerosols
   5. Global warming and climate change
   6. IPCC assessment reports
   7. Oceans and climate change

Practicals

1. Determination of dissolved oxygen (DO) in different water and wastewater samples by Winkler''s method
2. Determination of dissolved solid, suspended solid, total solid and volatile solid of wastewater samples
3. Wastewater treatment plant demonstration
4. Measurement of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of wastewater sample
5. Measurement of chemical oxygen demand (COD) of wastewater sample
6. Demonstration of solar irradiance data using pyranometer
7. Demonstration of noise pollution using a sound level meter