EN3611 Environmental Instrumentation Laboratory Syllabus:

EN3611 Environmental Instrumentation Laboratory Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

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.

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:

A. 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)
B. 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
C. Electrode (potentiometric) Methods:
 Use of bench top and field model pH meters
 Use of Dissolved Oxygen Meters.
 Use of TDS Meters.
D. Spectrophotometry
 Estimation of Phosphate.
 Estimation of Hydrocarbon.
 Estimation of Nitrogen.
 Estimation of Heavy Metals.
E. Chromatography
 Liquid/Gas Chromatography.
 Gas Chromatograph.
 HPLC
F. High Volume Sampler
 PM and Gas Pollutant analysis

TOTAL: 60 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:

The students completing the course will have
CO1 To conduct treatability studies on water and wastewater treatment
CO2 To determine the removal / degradation of pollutants from water and waste water and arrive at kinetics
CO3 To design scaled up reactors for treatment of water and wastewater treatment based on laboratory studies
CO4 To determine ambient air quality of given study area in terms of Particulate and Gaseous Pollutants

REFERENCES:

1. Douglas A. Skoog and Donald M. West, Analytical chemistry: An introduction, CBS publishing Japan Ltd. New York, 2017.
2. Sawyer. C.N., and McCarty P. L. Chemistry for environmental engineering, McGrawHill Publications, 4th edition, 2017.
3. Standards Methods for the Examination of Water and Waste Water, 17th Edition, WPCF, APHA and AWWA, USA, 1989.