Groundwater Hydrology and Contamination
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The official GTU curriculum for Groundwater Hydrology and Contamination (subject code BE05013041) as prescribed for Env. Engg · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 70 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 (BE05013041)Unit 1 Introduction to Groundwater Hydrology
- Hydrologic cycle and role of groundwater
- Occurrence of groundwater in subsurface formations
- Geological formations affecting groundwater
- Types of aquifers: Confined aquifer
- Unconfined aquifer
- Leaky aquifer
- Perched aquifer
- Properties of Aquifer Materials: Porosity
- Specific yield and specific retention
- Permeability and intrinsic permeability
- Hydraulic conductivity
- Coefficient of storage
- Factors affecting hydraulic conductivity: Grain size distribution
- Void ratio
- Fluid properties
- Groundwater table and piezometric surface
- Groundwater basin concept
- Recharge and discharge mechanisms of groundwater
Unit 2 Groundwater hydraulics
- Darcy’s Law and Its Applications: Statement and derivation of Darcy’s Law, Assumptions and limitations
- Hydraulic gradient and head loss
- Numericals based on Darcy’s law
- Groundwater Flow Equations: General groundwater flow equation
- Steady and unsteady groundwater flow
- Flow nets: Construction
Unit 3 Well Hydraulics
- Types of wells: Dug wells
- Tube wells
- Artesian wells
- Well construction methods
- Components of tube wells
- Well losses and efficiency
- Pumping tests: Constant discharge test
- Recuperation test
- Estimation of aquifer parameters
- Safe yield of aquifers
- Steady Unidirectional Flow
- Steady radial flow to a well
- Unsteady Radial flow in confined and unconfined aquifer
- Numericals on yield of wells
- interference of wells
Unit 4 Groundwater water quality, Monitoring and contamination
- Groundwater quality characteristics
- Groundwater monitoring
- Objectives of groundwater monitoring
- components of groundwater monitoring: sampling equipment
- measuring equipment
- Groundwater level monitoring
- contaminated site monitoring
- applications of GIS and remote sensing in groundwater monitoring
- Groundwater contamination
- Point and non-point source pollution
- Sources and Types of Groundwater contamination: Geological formations
- Industrial effluents
- Agricultural runoff
- Landfills and leachate migration
- Septic tanks and sewage disposal
- Mining activities
- Classification of pollutants: Organic pollutants (BTEX
- Inorganic pollutants (heavy metals
- Emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals
- Salt Water intrusion
Unit 5 Contaminant Transport in Groundwater and Remediation
- Mechanisms of contaminant transport
- In-situ Remediation Techniques: Bioremediation
- Air sparging
- Permeable reactive barriers (PRBs)
- Natural attenuation
- Ex-situ Remediation Techniques: Pump and treat
- Soil vapor extraction
- Emerging Technologies: Phytoremediation
- Nanotechnology applications
- Methods of Sustainable groundwater management: Artificial recharge
- Rainwater harvesting
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