Environmental Instrumentation
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Environmental Instrumentation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Environmental Instrumentation (subject code 3151712) as prescribed for IC · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 31 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 (3151712)Unit 1 Introduction
- Necessity of Instrumentation & Control for environment
- sensor requirement for environment
Unit 2 Quality of water
- Standards of raw & treated water
- sources of water & their natural quality
- effects of water quality
- Water quality parameters
- Water treatment: Requirement of water treatment facilities
- process design
- Waste water monitoring: Automatic waste water sampling
- optimum waste water sampling locations, and waste water measurement techniques
- Instrumentation set up for waste water treatment plant
- Latest methods of waste water treatment plants
Unit 3 Sedimentation & flotation
- General equation for settling or rising of discrete particles
- hindered settling
- effect of temperature
- efficiency of an ideal settling basin
- reduction in efficiency due to various causes
- storage & removal
- design criteria of settling tank
- effect of temperature on coagulation
Unit 4 Air pollution
- energy environment relationship
- importance of air pollution
- air pollution from thermal power plant
- their characteristics & control
- Air sampling methods & equipments
- analytical methods for air pollution studies
- Control of air pollution
- Flue gas analysis for pollution control – Measurement of CO, carbon di-oxide
- NOX and SOX, dust and smoke measurement
Unit 5 Air monitoring
- measurement of ambient air quality
- Flow monitoring: Air flow Subject Code: 3151712 w.e.f