Irrigation Water Quality and Waste Water Management detailed syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Agri students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Agriculture Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Agri 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Agri Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of irrigation water quality and waste water management is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
WATER QUALITY Physical and chemical properties of water – Suspended and dissolved solids – EC and pH – major ions -. Water quality investigation – Sampling design – Samplers and automatic samplers – Data collection platforms – Field kits – Water quality data storage, analysis and inference – Software packages
Unit II
IRRIGATION WATER QUALITY Water quality for irrigation – Salinity and permeability problem – Root zone salinity – Irrigation practices for poor quality water – Saline water irrigation – Future strategies
Unit III
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Unit IV
RECYCLING AND REUSE OF WATER Multiple uses of water – Reuse of water in agriculture – Low cost waste water treatment technologies – Economic and social dimensions – Packaged treatment units – Reverse osmosis and desalination in water reclamation
Unit V
WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT Principles of water quality – Water quality classification – Water quality standards – Water quality indices – TMDL Concepts – Water quality models
Text Books:
- George Tchobanoglous, Franklin Louis Burton, Metcalf & Eddy, H. David Stense, “Waste water Engineering: Treatment and Reuse”, McGraw-Hill, 2002
- Vladimir Novonty, “Water Quality: Diffuse pollution and watershed Management”, 2nd edition,John Wiley & Sons, 2003
- Mackenzie L Davis, David A Cornwell, “Introduction to Environmental Engineering”, McGraw-Hill 2006.
- Stum, M and Morgan, A., “Aquatic Chemistry”, Plenum Publishing company, USA, 1985
- Lloyd, J.W. and Heathcote, J.A., “Natural inorganic chemistry” in relation to groundwater resources, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988
Course Outcomes:
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