WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013- 2014
CE 455
ADVANCED ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Instruction 4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75 Marks
Sessional 25 Marks
UNIT-I
Industrial Waste Management - Types ofindustries, characteristics of industrial wastes, effects of industrial effluents on streams, land and human health. Environmental legislation related to industrial effluents and hazardous wastes. Self-purification of water bodies, Streeter phelps equation.
UNIT-II
Industrial Waste Water Treatment: Manufacturing process, waste water characteristics and effluent of the following industries - Leather tanning, dairy, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, textiles, steel plants, thermal power plants, fertilizer, cement, sugar and distilleries.
UNIT-III
Air Pollution : Sources, classification and effects of air pollutants, Meteorology of air pollution, wind rose diagrams, lapse rates, atmospheric stability and dispersion of air pollutants, stack height calculation, ambient air quality monitoring, stack sampling, analysis of air pollutants.
UNIT-IV
Air Pollution Control : Air quality standards, methods of air pollution control- zoning, source correction, control of suspended parciulate matter by equipment (gravitation, centrifugation, filtration, scrubbing, electrostatic precipitation), selection of proper equipment, gaseous pollutant control by absorption, condensation, combustion.
UNIT-V
Environmental Impact Assessment: Need for environmental impact assessment (EIA), objectives ofEIA. EIA capabilities and limitations.Legal provisions of EIA. Methods of EIA, base line data collection required for EIA, evaluation of impacts, prediction of impacts. Preparation of Environmental Management Plan, preparation ofEIAs of road project,
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Industry, and dam. Issues related to rehabilitation of affected people, Preparation of Environment impact statement and Environment management plan.
Suggested Reading :
- 1.Rao M.N. and Dutt, Waste Water Treatment, Oxford and IBM Publications Ltd.,
- 2.Eckenfelder, W.W., Industrial waste pollution control. McGrawHill Book Co.
- 3.C.S. Rao, Environmental Pollution Control Engineering,
WileyEastern Ltd., New Delhi.
- 4.M.N. Rao, H.V.N. Rao, Air Pollution Control, Tata McGraw Hill.
- 5.Peavy and Rowe, Environmental Engineering, McGraw Hill Publications.
- 6.Keiley, Environmental Engineering, McGraw Hill Publishers, 2003.
- 7.Sincero and Sincere, Environmental Engineering, Prentice Hall of India.