Design of Soil Pollution Control System
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The official GTU curriculum for Design of Soil Pollution Control System (subject code 2173516) as prescribed for Env. Sci. Tech · Semester 7 divides the course into 4 units, covering 46 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2173516)Unit 1 Basic concept related to Soil Pollution
- The soil and its constitution
- Functions and land uses
- Main causes and the processes that contribute to the degradation of soil quality (erosion
- chemical degradation and physical degradation)
- Sources of pollution (e.g. urban areas
- industrial areas
- agriculture and livestock
- sewage sludge
- municipal solid waste dumps and hazardous waste)
- Soil quality
Unit 2 Organic residues as soils fertilizers
- Application of sewage sludge to soil: Origins and treatment
- Assessing the risks associated with its application to soil
- Determination of heavy metals in sludge
- Adsorption / desorption of metals
- Sequential extraction
- Characterization of sludge from Portuguese wastewater treatment plants
- Application of MSW compost to soil: Origin
- Risks associated with their application to the soil
- Potential Guidelines
- Risk of application of effluent to the ground water
- salinity and sodification
- Typical dose- response curve for the macro
- meso and micro-nutrients and toxic trace elements of fertilizers
- Risks of soil contamination
Unit 3 Heavy metals in soils
- Main sources of contamination
- Behaviour of heavy metals in soil and soil-plant system
- Determination of heavy metals in soils
- Sequential extraction
- Transfer coefficients in soil- plant systems for the different forms of metal in soil
- Symptoms of toxicity
- Application of pesticides aspects of pollution related to their use: Degradation in soil
- Toxicity and toxicological classes
- Analysis of toxicological effects
- Determination of pesticides in soils
- Industrial activity as a source of contamination of soil: Main types of industrial waste
- The soil and water as the main final destinations
- The particular case of mining activity
Unit 4 Soil remediation technique for removal of inorganic
- and organic pollutants: On site (in situ) chemical
- soil vapour extraction
- soil washing solidification/stabilization
- electro-kinetic remediation thermical and biological methods
- Off site (ex-situ
- on- site and off-site): chemical methods
- Physical solidification /stabilization/ immobilization
- thermal, and biological (bioremediation and phytoremediation)
- Isolation containment of the affected area
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