GTU 3151712 Environmental Instrumentation: Syllabus

Sr. No.	Topics	Teaching Hours
1	Introduction: Necessity of Instrumentation & Control for environment, sensor requirement for environment.	4
2	Quality of water: Standards of raw & treated water, sources of water & their natural quality, effects of water quality. Water quality parameters. Water treatment: Requirement of water treatment facilities, process design. Waste water monitoring: Automatic waste water sampling, optimum waste water sampling locations, and waste water measurement techniques. Instrumentation set up for waste water treatment plant. Latest methods of waste water treatment plants.	8
3	Sedimentation & flotation: General equation for settling or rising of discrete particles, hindered settling, effect of temperature, viscosity, efficiency of an ideal settling basin , reduction in efficiency due to various causes, sludge, storage & removal, design criteria of settling tank, effect of temperature on coagulation.	4
4	Air pollution: definitions, energy environment relationship, importance of air pollution, air pollution from thermal power plant, their characteristics & control. Air sampling methods & equipments, analytical methods for air pollution studies. Control of air pollution. Flue gas analysis for pollution control – Measurement of CO, carbon di-oxide, NOX and SOX, dust and smoke measurement.	4
5	Air monitoring: measurement of ambient air quality. Flow monitoring: Air flow measurement, gas flow, non-open channel flow measurement, open channel waste water flow measurement. Rain water harvesting: necessity, methods, rate of NGOs municipal corporation, Govt., limitations. Quality assurance of storage water.	4

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