EN3301 - Environmental Chemistry Syllabus Regulation 2021 Anna University

EN3301 subject code deals with the Environmental Chemistry syllabus of B.E Environmental Engineering. In the second year, it is included in the semester III. This subject deals with the statistics and probability concepts to explore. In this article, we include textbooks and references to guide you to some more extent.

We aim to provide a detailed syllabus of EN3301 Environmental Chemistry. You can find unit-wise concepts and can easily make your preparations for examinations. It wouldn’t be difficult to find all the requirements in one place for the subject syllabus. This motto makes us provide this information to make it easy for you. Hope this information is useful. Don’t regret to share it with your classmates.

If you want to know more about the syllabus of other branches including B.E Environmental Engineering connected to an affiliated institution’s four-year undergraduate degree programme. We provide you with a detailed Year-wise, semester-wise, and Subject-wise syllabus in the following link B.E Environmental Engineering Syllabus Anna University, Regulation 2021.

Aim Of Concept:

  • To educate the students in the area of water, air and soil chemistry
  • To explain the theoretical basis and observational methods for study of contaminants and interactions in the environment

EN3301 – Environmental Chemistry Syllabus

Unit I: Fundamentals

Stoichiometry and mass balance-Chemical equilibria, acid-base, solubility product(Ksp), heavy metal precipitation, amphoteric hydroxides, CO2 solubility in water and species distribution – Ocean acidification, Chemical kinetics, First order- 12 Principles of green chemistry.

Unit II: Aquatic Chemistry

Water and wastewater quality parameters- environmental significance and determination; Fate of chemicals in aquatic environment, volatilization, partitioning, hydrolysis, photochemical transformation– Degradation of synthetic chemicals – Metals, complex formation, oxidation and reduction, pE – pH diagrams, redox zones – sorption- Colloids, electrical properties, double layer theory, environmental significance of colloids, coagulation.

Unit III: Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric structure – chemical and photochemical reactions – photochemical smog. Ozone layer depletion – greenhouse gases and global warming, CO2 capture and sequestration – acid rain- origin and composition of particulates. black carbon, air quality parameters determination.

EN3301 - Environmental Chemistry Syllabus Regulation 2021 Anna University

Unit IV: Soil Chemistry

Nature and composition of soil – Clays- cation exchange capacity-acid base and ion-exchange reactions in soil – agricultural chemicals in soil-reclamation of contaminated land; salt by leaching- Heavy metals by electrokinetic remediation.

Unit V: Emerging Pollutants

Heavy metals-chemical speciation –Speciation of Hg & As- endocrine disturbing chemicalsPesticides, Dioxins & Furan, PCBs, PAHs, and Fluro compounds toxicity- Nano materials, CNT, titania, composites, environmental applications.

References:

  1. Sawyer, C.N., Mac Carty, P.L. and Parkin, G.F., “Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science”, Tata McGraw–Hill, Fifth edition, New Delhi 2017.
  2. Colin Baird„ Environmental Chemistry, Freeman and company, New York, 5th Edition, 2012.
  3. Manahan, S.E., “Environmental Chemistry”, Eleventh Edition, CRC Press, 2022.
  4. Ronald A. Hites, “Elements of Environmental Chemistry”, Wiley, 2nd Edition, 2020.

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