Syllabus Industries and Environment Pollution
Syllabus Industries and Environment Pollution
Syllabus Industries and Environment Pollution
Salem India
hearing protection - Sound absorption, Acoustic barrier, Vibration Isolation, Vibration damping,
Muffling, personal protector and green belt Chapter VIII
Noise pollution management:
Mines, Washeries, Power plants, Fertilizer plants, Cement plants, etc. Ground vibration and air
blast, Health effects; Psycho-acoustics, effects of noise on health, special noise environments:
Infra-sound, ultrasound, impulsive sound and sonic boom; noise instrumentation and monitoring
procedure.
UNIT - 05
Chapter IX
Hazardous Waste Management:
Hazardous waste classification and rules, management strategies. Treatment methods component separation, chemical and biological treatment, incineration, solidification and
stabilization, and disposal methods. Radioactive pollutants, causes of radioactive pollution, effects
of radioactive pollution, control of radioactive pollution.
Chapter X
Solid Waste Management:
Soil pollutants, causes of soil pollution, ecological effects of soil pollution, control of soil pollution.
Solid waste, scope of solid waste management, recycle, reuse, recovery concepts. Fertilizer,
plastics, paper and pulp, inorganic acids, petroleum and petrochemicals, recovery of materials
from process effluents. Sanitary land fills design.
UNIT - 06
Chapter XI
Environmental Measurement:
Sampling and analysis-dust monitor-gas analyzer, particles size analyzer-lux meter-pH meter-gas
chromatograph-atomic absorption spectrometer.
Chapter XII
Public awareness:
Standards and legislation - pollution control board-laws. EIA, EIS and EMP - Environmental
education - Background, Goals, Objectives, Guided principles
BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING:
1. C. S. Rao Environmental pollution control engineering, 2nd edition
2. S.P. Mahajan Pollution control in process industries
3. N.L.Nemerow, "Liquid waste of industry- theories, Practices and Treatment", Addison Wesley,
New York, 1971.
4. W.J.Weber, "Physico-Chemical Processes for water quality control", Wiley Interscience,. New
York, 1969.
5. W.Strauss, "Industrial gas cleaning", Pergamon, London, 1975.
6. A.C.Stern, "Air pollution", Volumes I to VI, academic Press, New York, 1968.