LESSON PLAN

Name of the Faculty: Mrs. Monica Mago

Discipline: M.Sc: Environmental Sciences

Semester: Second

Subject: AIR & NOISE: POLLUTION AND ABATEMENT(EVS 203A)

Lesson plan duration: 12 weeks

Week Theory Practicals- Not applicable

Lecture

day Topic Practical

day

Topic

1 1 Air pollution – world and Indian scenario, Sources and classification of air pollutants

2 Air pollutants, effects and consequences,

3 Atmospheric Aerosols.

4 The air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act – 1981 and its Amendments,

2 5 Geneva Convention on long range transport of atmospheric pollutants

6 Climatic Change, Tools to study climate change,

7 mitigation strategies for global warming;

8 biological and geological carbon sequestration

3 9 Kyoto protocol,

10 carbon trading, Carbon footprints

11 A case study of coal based Thermal Power Plant

12 Global environmental change programmes, IPCC, COP, Indian initiatives for mitigating climate change.

4 13 Ambient air sampling using impactor, Cyclone, dichotomous

and impingement devices, filter media selection.

14 Adsorption and adsorption based sampling,

15 Indoor environment monitoring.,

16 Industrial Monitoring: Flow velocity and temperature monitoring,

5 17 isokinetic sampling and compositional analysis,

18 Flue gas analyzer principles for monitoring COx, NOx,

19 SOx, hydrocarbon.

20 Air dispersion and Modelling: Plume behaviour

6 21 principles of air pollutants dispersion (Gaussian dispersion model) Plume rise estimation

22 Effluent dispersion theories

23 Atmospheric and Indoor chemical modelling.

24 Particulates - filters, gravitational, centrifugal-multiple type cyclones

7 25 Scrubbers and electrostatic precipitators,

26 Adsorbents, PSA,

27 adsorption cycle,

28 rotary bed/fluidized bed,

8 29 Condensation - contact condensers, shell and tube condenser, flaring.

30 Gaseous Pollutants - absorption: Packed and plate columns.

31 Low NOx burner, Wellman Lord Process,

32 Fuel desulphurization and denitrogenation.

9 33 Vehicular Pollution Control: Combustion Cycle

34 Fuel/air ratio and Catalytic convertor

35 selective catalytic and.

36 selective non-catalytic reduction

10 37 Assignements

38 Definition, sources, properties of sound waves,

39 Sound pressure, intensity, decibel,

40 measurement and analysis of sound, Noise Indices,

11 41 Sound absorption,

42 Meteorological effects on Noise propagation,

43 Effects and impacts on human

44 Class test

12 45 Noise exposure level and standards

46 Control of Noise pollution,

47 Preventive measures and abatement measures

48 Assignement