Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment detailed syllabus for Environmental Engineering (Env) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the Env 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 Environmental Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Env 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of fate and transport of contaminants in the environment is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
EQUILIBRIUM AND TRANSPORT MECHANISMS 10 Concentration and Phase density – air-water equilibrium, Soil-water equilibrium, Earthen solid- air equilibrium. Liquid-chemical equilibrium – thermal equilibrium at environmental interfaces. Diffusion and mass transfer – molecular diffusion- Fick,s Law – eddy diffusion -mass transfer theories -fundamentals of heat transfer -heat and mass transfer.
Unit II
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Unit III
EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN WATER AND THE EARTHERN MATERIAL 9 Dissolution of chemicals -natural convection dissolution – water interface – mass transfer coefficients at the sediment – water interface. Flux of chemicals between sediment and the overlying seawater – movement of chemicals through the benthic boundary layer.
Unit IV
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Unit V
CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT ANALYSIS 9 Potential theory- Potential Functions- Stream Function – Travel time along with Stream Functions- Residential Time Distribution Theory- Analysis of Chemical Spills and Contaminant plumes – Fourier analysis of Initial value – point spill analysis- vertically mix spill analysis- Horizontal Plane Source analysis
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Thibodeaux, L.J, Environmental Chemo dynamics: Movement Of Chemicals In Air, Water and Soil, 2nd edition ., Wiley – Intercedence, New York, 1996.
- Schnoor, J.L., Environmental Modelling Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Water, Air and Soil, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1996.
- Walton, J.C., Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment, College Publishing 2008.
- Charbeneau, R.J., Groundwater Hydraulics and Pollutant Transport, Waveland Press, 2006
Reference Books:
- Zheng, C., and Bennett, G.D., Applied Contaminants Transport Modelling, Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.
- Samiullah, Y., Prediction of the Environmental Fate of Contaminants, Springer 2011.
- David Chin., Water Quality Engineering in Natural Systems: Fate and Transport Process in the Environment, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
- Hemond, H.F., and Fechner, E.J., Chemicals Fate and Transport in the Environment, Academic Press, 2014.
- Cussler, E.L, Diffusion: Mass Transfer In Fluid Systems, Cambridge University press, 1994
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Environmental Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Env 4th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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