- Introduction to Environmental Engineering:
Overview of the subject, Importance of EE in Civil Engineering and Basic concepts.
- Water Supply Engineering:
Water demand, Estimation of water per capita demand, Factors affecting water use, Design periods and factors governing design periods, Methods of population forecast, Water sources.
- Water Quality:
Hydrological cycle, Sampling methods, Water characteristics, Water quality analysis, Water quality monitoring.
- Environmental Legislation and Management:
Environmental issues of urban and rural areas, Environment and sustainable development, Role of various environmental agencies to prevent environmental degradation, National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS). Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
- Water Treatment Unit Processes/ Operations: Standard water treatment methods: Screening, Sedimentation, Coagulation, Filtration and Disinfection, Water softening, Special water treatment methods
- Water Distribution: Water supply system, Water distribution methods: requirements of a good distribution system.
- Water Supply Projects and Water Collection: Importance and necessity of planned water supplies, Planning and preparing a water supply project: data to be collected, analysis of data and project formulation, project drawings, project estimates, project supervision and reporting. Water collection methods, Intakes, factors governing location of intake, types of intake, design of intake.
- Water Conveyance: Conduit and its types, Pumps, types of pumps and designof a pumping station.
- Design of Water Treatment Plant: Design of various water treatment unitoperations.