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Environmental Quality Monitoring and Analysis

Offered By: Indian Institute of Technology Madras via Swayam

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Course Description

Overview

The course is directed at measuring, modeling and assessing the parameters of environmental quality for the purpose of environmental risk assessment. The course introduces readers to the concept of environmental fate and transport and the methods to apply them in environmental risk assessment. The course also discusses the monitoring methods in the context of environmental fate and transport.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Interested Learners PREREQUISITES : Basic Mathematics; Physics; Chemistry; Environmental Engineering; Chemical Engineering. INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Environmental Consulting  

Syllabus

COURSE LAYOUT Week 1: Introduction; Definition of Environment; Link between source/environment/receptor; Exposure; Health effects; Toxicology; Defining the need for fate and transport.
Week 2: Chemicals of concern; relevant properties for environmental fate and transport; Definition of Equilibrium – partition constants, solubility, vapor pressure, henry’s constant, Koc, Kow etc. Equilibrium partitioning of chemicals between different phases of the environment.
Week 3: Parameters for environmental water/ air / soil / sediment – screening parameters, priority air pollutants – definitions of PM
Week 4: Monitoring of environmental parameters – screening parameters – BOD, COD, TOC, TDS; Environmental sampling – definition and synthesis of a monitoring/sampling/analysis method. Quality Assurance and quality control (QA/QC).
Week 5: Methods for sampling/processing/analysis of organic and inorganic constituents in air/water/soil/sediment.
Week 6: Introduction to environmental transport – BOX Models and the application to multimedia transport of pollutants
Week 7: Atmospheric Dispersion – Gaussian Dispersion model
Week 8: Fundamentals of mass transport – definition of intraphase and inter-phase chemical flux; interphase mass transport, diffusion coefficient and convenction mass transfer coefficients.
Week 9: Chemical Exchange between air-water
Week 10:Chemical Exchange between sediment-water
Week 11:Cemical exchange between soil-air
Week 12:Overall transport model and scenarios

Taught by

Prof. Ravi Krishna R

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