Environmental Instrumentation Laboratory 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 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Env 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of environmental instrumentation laboratory is as follows.
Course Objectives:
• To train the students on the use of different instruments used for performance monitoring and testing of equipment in wastewater treatment, air pollution control, effluent analysis and emission monitoring.
Experiments
- Sample Collection, Handling and Preservation
- Sampling Protocol: Planning a Sampling Strategy
- The Representative Sample: Random vs. Judgmental Sampling
- Sampling Equipment: Devices and Containers for soil, air and water.
- Sampling Techniques: soil and water
- Sampling Techniques: gases and vapors
- Sample Documentation and Preservation, Chain of Custody (COC)
- Methods of Analysis
- Sample Preparation: Interferences and Detection Limits
- Quality Control
- Field Quality Control: Duplicate Samples
- Quality Control in the Laboratory: Equipment Calibration, Matrix spike and Blank samples.
- Calibrartion
- Electrode (potentiometric) Methods:
- Use of bench top and field model pH meters
- Use of Dissolved Oxygen Meters.
- Use of TDS Meters.
- Spectrophotometry
- Estimation of Phosphate.
- Estimation of Hydrocarbon.
- Estimation of Nitrogen.
- Estimation of Heavy Metals.
- Chromatography
- Liquid/Gas Chromatography.
- Gas Chromatograph.
- HPLC
- High Volume Sampler
- PM and Gas Pollutant analysis
Course Outcomes:
The students completing the course will have
- To conduct treatability studies on water and wastewater treatment
- To determine the removal / degradation of pollutants from water and wastewater and arrive at kinetics
- To design scaled up reactors for treatment of water and wastewater treatment based on laboratory studies
- To determine ambient air quality of given study area in terms of Particulate and Gaseous Pollutants
Reference Books:
- Douglas A. Skoog and Donald M. West, Analytical chemistry: An introduction, CBS publishing Japan Ltd. New York, 2017.
- Sawyer. C.N., and McCarty P. L. Chemistry for environmental engineering, McGraw-Hill Publications, 4th edition, 2017.
- Standards Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water, 17th Edition, WPCF, APHA and AWWA, USA, 1989.
For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Environmental Engineering, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit Env 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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