Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology
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The official GTU curriculum for Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology (subject code 2711702) as prescribed for EE · Semester 1 divides the course into 6 units, covering 21 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 (2711702)Unit 1 Significance of Environmental Chemistry in Environmental Engineering
- Units of Measurement
- Basic Concepts from General Chemistry
- Physical Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Equilibrium Chemistry
- Colloidal Chemistry and nuclear Chemistry as applied to the Measurement of Pollution Parameters
Unit 2 Methods of Chemical Analysis
- Analysis applicable to water
- waste water and Air quality principles of analysis of gravimetric
- Polarographic and Gas Chromotographic methods: Applications of above analysis methods for testing of Turbidity
- colour, pH, acidity
- Dissolved Oxygen
- Biochemical Oxygen Demand
- Nitrogenous compounds
- Sulphorous compounds, etc
Unit 3 Principles of Optical Methods such as Absorption, Spectrophotometry, Flame
- Fluorometry etc
Unit 4 Scope and Areas of Environmental Microbiology, Cell and its Structure,
- Introduction to Enzyme and Metabolic Reactions
- Aerobic and anaerobic respiration
Unit 5 Microscopy and Micrometry, Observations, Measurements and Isolation of
- Different Cultures
- Media and Techniques of Staining and Enumeration of microorganism
Unit 6 Applied Microbiology of Soil, Air, Water and Biological Processes of
- Wastewater Treatments
- Industrial Microbiology