Unit 1 Introduction

5 lecture hours

• Impact of man on the environment
• ecological systems and pollution
• hydrologic and nutrient cycles
• Various types of environmental pollution in general and in chemical and allied industry in particular
• sources and causes of environmental pollution
• effect of pollution on environment

Unit 2 Air pollution

7 lecture hours

• Classification and properties of air pollutants
• Emission sources
• behavior and fate of air pollutants with special reference to chemical reactions in atmosphere
• reactions at the earth’s surface
• photochemical smog etc.
• air pollution meteorology (generation
• transportation and dispersion of air pollutants)
• Outlines of industrial air pollution control and particulate control equipment: selection
• design and performance analysis
• cyclone separator
• fabric filters
• gravity settling chambers
• wet scrubbers
• Control of gaseous emissions Stack sampling and analysis of air pollutants

Unit 3 Water pollution

6 lecture hours

• Sources and classification of water pollutants
• Physico-chemical characterization of wastewater
• water quality standards
• Industrial water pollution management: Wastewater treatment processes
• primary and secondary treatment processes
• Advanced wastewater treatment processes
• Design of sedimentation tanks and biological treatment processes

Unit 4 Solid waste management

4 lecture hours

• Sources and classification
• public health aspects
• methods of collection
• potential methods of disposal: sanitary landfill
• recovery and recycling

Unit 5 Introduction to Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), Sources of exposure, exposure

7 lecture hours

• exposure-hazard control
• Fire and explosion: types of fire
• detonation and deflagration
• UVCE and BLEVE
• Regulatory bodies and regulations
• Safety by design sizing of specific devices such as, safety release valves
• flare systems
• Instrumentation for safety - specific devices such as alarms
• shutdown systems
• Hazard Identification Checklist procedure
• Preliminary hazard analysis
• What if analysis
• Failure mode effect analysis
• Hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies
• Hazard analysis techniques: Fault tree analysis
• Event tree analysis
• General outline of DOW index

Unit 6 Rules, regulations, laws etc. regarding environmental protection, pollution

• prevention and control
• waste disposal etc
• Standards and legislation EIA, EIS and EMP
• Air and water pollution management through waste minimization
• Industrial air pollution management
• Role of government
• semi/quasi govt. and voluntary

Unit 7 Branch

4 lecture hours

• Chemical Engineering (Green Technology and Sustainability Engineering) Course/Subject Code: BE04044031 Course/Subject Name: Pollution Control & Safety Management w.e.f. 2024-25 organizations
• Industries Factory act, concept of energy audit
• environment Audit. 7 Safe industrial practices
• Development of safety movement
• Need for safety-general introduction
• historical background and growth of safety science
• basic concepts of safety audit

Unit 8 Concept of Cleaner Production(CP), End of Pipe Solution, Good House Keeping

5 lecture hours

• CP Methodology
• Barriers and Drivers in cleaner production
• Principles of sustainable developments
• Principles of green chemistry
• atom economy
• waste prevention and minimization of waste generation