| S. # |
TOPICS |
| Air and Noise Pollution | |
| 1. | Air pollution: their origin, sources, types, effects, and dispersion |
| 2. | Control of air pollutants, air emission measurement, and control, ambient air quality |
| 3. | Noise pollution: concept of sound and sound pressure level, noise sources and their effects on health. |
| 4. | Acoustic environmental criteria (safety and health at work), Noise measurement and control. |
| Solid and Hazardous Waste Management | |
| 5. | Characteristics of solid waste. |
| 6. | Waste minimization: recycling reuse of solid waste, composting. |
| 7. | Generation-collection-transferring-and disposal of waste (incineration and landfill options) |
| 8. | Hazardous waste: classification and treatment, contaminated sites and their remedies. |
| Wastewater Engineering and Wastewater Quality | |
| 9. | Introduction of wastewater engineering Wastewater terminology. Characteristics of municipal industrial wastewater. |
| 10. | Wastewater composition. Sampling techniques. Wastewater quality and analysis. quality parameters/monitoring |
| Waste water Infrastructure (collection and conveyance) | |
| 11. | Sewerage systems, methods of carrying wastewater and its disposal, sewer materials, shapes, fittings, and joints |
| 12. | Design of sewers, laying and testing of sewers, ventilation of sewers, cleaning of sewers |
| 13. | Surface drains, sewer appurtenances, house drainage system |
| Wastewater Treatment Unit Processes/Operations | |
| 14. | Estimating wastewater quantity |
| 15. | Conventional wastewater treatment systems, |
| 16. | Municipal wastewater treatment unit processes |
| 17. | physical treatment methods |
| 18. | Biological treatment methods |
| 19. | chemical treatment methods |
| 20. | special/physicochemical treatment methods |
| 21. | Sludge disposal and reuse |
| 22. | Wastewater reclamation and reuse |
| 23. | Natural treatment self-purification systems |
| Design of a Wastewater Treatment Plant | |
| 24. | Design of bar racks and screens, grit chambers, sedimentation tanks (detritus tanks, skimming tanks), |
| 25. | Activated sludge processes, aerated lagoons |
| 26. | Trickling filters, Rotating biological contractors, |
| 27. | Stabilization ponds, nutrients, odor, and VOCs control |
| 28. | Sludge thickeners and digesters, Composting units, Dewatering equipment, Wetlands |
| Small Wastewater Treatment Systems | |
| 29. | Small wastewater systems and characteristics. Design of on-site systems: septic tanks, Imhoff tanks, Pit latrines. |