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HD16CE: Environmental Engineering

1.      Water Supply : Water demand for domestic use, population forecasting by

      various methods including logistic curve method, Variation in water demand.

 

2.      Sources of Water : Collection of surface water, River Lake, Impounding Reservoir & Canal intakes, Determination of capacity of impounding reservoir.

 

3.      Collection of Ground Water : Confined & Unconfined aquifers, tubewells and infiltration galleries.

 

4.      Transmission of Water : Types of aquaducts, Hydraulics of conduits, capacity and sizes including economical sizes of rising main, structural requirement for aquaducts. Appurterenances and valves, Materials for water pipes.

 

5.      Storage and Distribution of Water : Hardy cross Method, Equivalent pipe method of network analysis.

 

6.      Pumps and their characteristic curves, pumps in parallel & series and selection of pumps.

 

7.      Waste Water Collection : Systems of sanitation and systems for water carriage sewage.

 

8.      Estimation of wastewater flows and variation in waste water flow.

 

9.      Estimation of storm water runoff by rational formula.

 

10. Flow in filled and partially full sewers and Design of Sewers.

 

11. Flow in sewer transitions and length of transition, sewer appurtenances, manhole, catch pits, street inlets etc.

 

References

 

1.   Mc Ghee : Water supply ans sewerage.

2.   Peavy : Environmental Engg.

3.   Odum : Ecology.

4.   Masters : Introduction to Environmental Engg. and Science.

5.   Kshirsagar : Water Supply Engg.

6.   Kshirsagar : Sewerage and Sewage Treatment.

7.   Sawyer & Mc Carty : Chemistry for Environmental Engg.

8.   Kotaigh : Environmental Engg. Laboratory Manual.

Environmental Engineering LAB-1

1.      Determination of turbidity, color and conductivity

2.      Determination of pH, alkalinity and acidity.

3.      Determination of hardness and chlorides.

4.      Determination of residual chlorine and chlorine demand.

5.      Determination of dissolved oxygen.

6.      Determination of most probable number of coliforms.

 

 

Environmental Engineering II

                                                         

1.   Beneficial uses of water and quality requirements.

2.   Concept of water quality, Physical, Chemical and Bacteriological examination of water.

3.   Objective of water treatment, water treatment unit, processes and flow sheets.

4.   Sedimentation : Determination of setting velocity, efficiency of ideal settling tank, Short circuiting, Design of primary and secondary sedimentation tank, Settling and removal efficiency for discrete and floculent settling.

5.   Coagulation : Mechanism of Coagulation, Coagulants and their reactions, Determination of optimum does of coagulant, Design of rapid mix chamber.

      Flocculation, Definition, Hydraulic and Mechanical flocculators and their design, Criteria for good flocculation.

6.   Filtration : Theory of filtration, hydraulics of filtration and back-washing including Caman-Cozeny’s equation. slow sand and rapid sand filters, brief introduction to dual media filters.

7.   Disinfection : Various disinfectants, Chlorination and practices of chlorination.

8.   Water softening by limesoda process and ion exchange; calculation of does of chemicals.

9.   Wastewater Treatment : Wastewater characteristic, BOD kinetics, Preliminary, Primary and Secondary Treatment, Unit Operations and flowsheets.

10. Screens, grit chamber and their design, sedimentation and chemical treatment of wastewater.

11. Secondary Treatment : Theory of Organic matter removal, Activated Sludge Process-flow sheet, Aeration tanks, design of Activated sludge units & modifications, trickling filters, theory and design using NRC equation, Oxidation ponds and ditches.

12. Anaerobic digestion of sludge, design of anaerobic digesters & Septic tank.

13. Disposal of wastewater on land and in water bodies.

 

References

 

1.   Environmental Engineering - Peavy et. al.

2.   Water Supply and Sewerage - McGhee.

3.   Introduction to Environmental Engineering - Davis.

4.   Water supply and Wastewater Engineering - B.S.N. Raju.

5.   Environmental Pollution Control Engineering - C.S. Rao.

6.  Environmental Science and Engineering - Masters.