Atmospheric Ground and Ocean Dispersion detailed syllabus for Safety & Fire Engineering (SFE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the SFE 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 Safety & Fire Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit SFE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to SFE Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of atmospheric ground and ocean dispersion is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 9
Atmospheric instability and convection-stability criteria, parcel method, oscillations, lifting & mixing and convective condensation levels, potential instability and latent instability; stability indices and analysis, cloud formation and types. Global and local wind circulation and profiles, Atmospheric stability and inversions, plume behavior and calculation, turbulent diffusion, concept of mixing height and determination of stability class.
Unit II
ADMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELING
Modeling types & scales, steps in model formulation, types of input required for dispersion modelling, Preparation of meteorological data for air quality models (surface and upper air data). Emission quantification for point, area and line sources. The box model, Gaussian plume and puff model, commonly used regulatory modelsand their applications to industrial problems.
Unit III
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Unit IV
OCEAN DISPERSION MODELING 9
Complex nature of ocean dispersion modeling, Modeling of dynamic transport and distribution of floating solid mass and oil over the sea surface. Modeling of the pollutant transport in the sea land interface regions.
Unit V
GROUND CHARACTERISTICS AND DISPERSION TROUGH GROUND 9
Soils & rocks -formation, profile and types, transport of liquid through different type of soil structures, short term and long-term diffusion of liquid through ground. Transport of chemicals and radioactive through ground diffusion and ground water transport. Safety analysis of deep underground depository of chemical and radioactive pollutants, Basis tectonics movement, dynamics earth quake and tsunami, prediction and early warning, Transport ofindustrial and waste dump yard discharges through soil, deep ground and ground water tablet.
Course Outcomes:
Students able to
- Understand the basic dynamics of atmospheric dispersion for modeling
- Understand the atmospheric dispersion for modeling methodology
- Understand the basic dynamics of ocean dispersion for modeling
- Understand the ocean dispersion for modeling methodology through oil pollutant transpoi
- Understand the characteristics of ground and modeling of ground dispersion of pollutants
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption desorption and Dissolution, Grathwohl, P., Springer, 1989
- Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics, Hillel, D., Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2004
- Introduction to Physical Oceanography: Robert Stewart
- Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Oil Pollution Problems, Matthias, Springer Cham Ehrhardt,2015
- Fundamentals of air pollution 2nd edition, Arthur C. Stern, Elsevier, 1984
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