CE3055 Environmental Quality Monitoring Syllabus:

CE3055 Environmental Quality Monitoring Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To educate the students on the sample collection and various instrumental methods of monitoring the quality of air, water and solid waste.

UNIT I MONITORING AND CHARACRATERIZATION OF ENVIRONMENT

General approach to environmental analysis, Choice of Lab.Vs. Field analysis, Environmental monitoring-current and future status, Lab. Standards, Data quality objectives, statistics in environmental monitoring, Accuracy and precision, detection limit, types of errors, Automated Data acquisition and processing-sensors and transducers , Monitoring Network and real time monitoring

UNIT II ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING

Location, planning, sampling equipment’s for water, solids and air, sample storage for physical and chemical contaminants ,types of sampling, representative samples, sample preparation techniquesSolvent Extraction, SPE, Head space, Purge and trap and SPME

UNIT III WATER ANALYSIS

Techniques for analysis of major ions-UV-visible Spectrophotometer, Flame photometer, AAS, ICP ( AES and MS), Trace organic pollutants(PCB, dioxins, pecticides) GC and HPLC (Columns Detectors and Application)

UNIT IV ATMOSPHEREIC ANALYSIS

Ambient air and flue gas, Gaseous pollutants-Determination of time weighted average concentration(Absorption trains, solid adsorbents and differential tubes), Direct reading instruments(fluorescence ,chemiluminescent,IR and Electrochemical sensors, GC-MS for trace organics, Particulate sampling methods- High volume sampler, personal sampler, PM 10 and 2.5, Metals Direct(XRF) and dissolution methods(AAS/AES)

UNIT V ANALYSIS OF SOIL AND WASTE

Problem in analysis of soil and Waste -sampling, pretreatment -extraction and clean up, New extraction techniques, Automated soxhlet and solvent extraction,microwave digestion and sonication,SCF(CO2), Analysis for trace pollutants, Analysis of leachate.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1 Understand the basics of environmental monitoring
CO2 Able to select appropriate sampling protocol for chemical analysis
CO3 Understand various methods of analysis of pollutants in water
CO4 Select correct method for toxic pollutants estimation in air
CO5 Familiar with analysis of land and wastes

REFERENCES:

1. Reeve, R.N., “Introduction to Environmental Analysis”, Analytical Techniques in the Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2002.
2. Barcelo, D.(editor), “Environmental analysis. Techniques, Applications and Quality Assurance”, Elsevier, The Netherlands, 1996
3. Paul R. Loconto Trace Environmental Quantitative Analysis: Principles, Techniques, and Applications, Marcel Dekker; 2nd Edition , 2005,
4. Janick Artiola, Ian Pepper and Mark Brusseau, ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND CHARACTERIZATION , Academic Press,2004.