Air Pollution Semester 7 (BE Fourth Year) BE Civil Engineering University of Mumbai Topics and Syllabus

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University of Mumbai Semester 7 (BE Fourth Year) Air Pollution and their Unit wise marks distribution

100 Module 1

Composition of dry ambient air Properties of air. Function of air, Definition of pollution.
Classification of air pollutants. Units for Qualification of air pollution,History of air pollution, Global and national scope of the problem- general, urban, rural, specific.

200 Module 2

Sources of air pollution natural and man-made Major pollutants from different sources in Greater Bombay area (or any metropolis of Maharashtra), Emission factors.

300 Module 3

Effects of air and noise pollution on human health, plants ,animals, properties and visibility, indoor air pollution and personal exposure to air pollution , simple numerical problems based on COH, CoHb

400 Module 4

Meteorological aspects of air pollution Large scale wind circulation geotropic wind, gradient wind, cyclone, anticyclone, planetary boundary layer.
Lapse rate, stability conditions, wind velocity profile, maximum mixing depth, topographic effects.

500 Module 5

Plum patterns, plum dispersion, Gaussian model for predicting concentration, downwind from a single source, diffusion coefficients, Turner’s stability categories and graphs for dispersion estimates.
Maximum ground level concentration, inversion effects, distance touching ground modification of Gaussian model to predict particulate dispersion, plume rise, modified Holland equation for small source.
ASME equation for large source, Brigg’s equation for buoyant plum rise, Brigg’s equation for momentum plum rise

600 Module 6

Methods and instruments for sampling and analysis of air for stack and ambient air monitoring.

700 Module 7

800 Module 8

Control Devices Principles, operations and types, simple hoods and ducts. Settling chambers, cyclones, electrostatic precipitators (ESP), Filters,scrubbers, absorption towers and incinerators.
Collection efficiencies for laminar and turbulent flows for settling chambers, particle cut size for cyclone, ESP Concept of frictional and overall efficiencies.
Design criteria for filters, scrubbers, absorption towers and incinerators.