SYLLABUS FOR SEMESTER - II (EVS)

09CY201   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING        

                                 (Common to all branches)                                      

    

1. ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES                                                                

Forest resources – importance, deforestation – Water resources – anomalous properties of water, hydrological cycle – Food resources – effects of modern agriculture, fertilizers, pesticides – Land resources – causes and effects land degradation, desertification – Energy resources – renewable energy – wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, OTEC and nuclear.

2. ECOSYTEM AND BIODIVERSITY                                                            

Environment – biotic and abiotic – Ecosystem – food chain, trophic levels – Energy flow in ecosystem, ecological pyramids – Ecological succession, types – Biodiversity, types, values of bio diversity, hot spots of bio diversity, threats to bio diversity, endangered and endemic species, conservation of bio diversity.

3. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION                                                                    

Air pollution – classification of air pollutants gaseous, particulates – Sources effects and control of gaseous pollutants, SO_2, NO_2, H₂S, CO, CO₂ and particulates – Control methods – cyclone separator, electrostatic precipitator, catalytic combustion – Water control heavy metals – Organic pollutants, oxygen demanding wastes, aerobic and anaerobic decomposition, BOD and COD and experimental determination of BOD only, treatment of domestic wastes – Noise pollution –n sources, effects, decibel scale.

4. ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS                                                                            

Stratosphere, troposphere, composition and activities – Acid rain, green house effect and global warming, ozone layer depletion, photo chemical smog, eutrophication, bio amplification – Disaster management – origin, effects and management of earth quake and floods.

5. SOLIDWASTE MANAGEMENT                                                                      

Solid waste management – solid wastes, classification, origin, effects – Treatment methods – composting, sanitary land filling- Destructive methods – incineration, pyrolysis, recycling and reuse, co-disposal – e-waste – sources, effects and disposal.

6. SOCIAL ISSUES AND ENVIRONMENT                                                  

From unsustainable to sustainable development, objectives and ways of achieving it – Urban problem related to energy, energy conservation – Water conservation and management, rain water harvesting, watershed management – Waste land reclamation –

7. ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS                                                               

Environmental ethics – Consumerism – Human population, exponential and logistic growth, variation in population among countries, population explosion, population policy, family welfare – programme and population control methods – HIV and AIDS

                                                                                                               

TEXT BOOKS

1. Meenakshi, P, “Elements of Environmental Science and Engineering”, Prentice – Hall of India, New Delhi, 2005.
2. Dara S.S, “Text Book of Environmental Chemistry and pollution control”, S.Chand & Co, New Delhi, 2002.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Gilbert masters, “Introduction to Environmental Engineering & Science”, Prentice – Hall of India, New Delhi, 2004.
2. Elden D.Enger and Bradley F.Smith, “Environmental Science”, 6^th Edition, WCD McGraw Hill, 2008.