EN3601 - Environmental Monitoring Instruments Syllabus Regulation 2021 Anna University

EN3601 subject code deals with the Environmental Monitoring Instruments syllabus of B.E Environmental Engineering. In the second year, it is included in the semester VI. 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.

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Aim Of Concept:

  • To educate the students on the sample collection and various instrumental methods of monitoring the quality of air, water and solid waste.

EN3601 – Environmental Monitoring Instruments Syllabus

Unit I: Monitoring And Characraterization Of the Environment

General approach to environmental analysis, Choice of Lab. Vs. Field analysis, Environmental monitoring-current and future status, Lab. Standards, Data quality objectives, statistics in environmental monitoring, Accuracy and precision, detection limit, types of errors, Automated Data acquisition and processing sensors and transducers, Monitoring Network and real-time monitoring

Unit II: Environmental Sampling

Location, planning, sampling equipment’s for water, solids and air, sample storage for physical and chemical contaminants, types of sampling, representative samples, sample preparation techniques-Solvent Extraction, SPE, Head space, Purge and trap and SPME

Unit III: Water Analysis

Techniques for analysis of major ions-UV-visible Spectrophotometer, Flame photometer, AAS, ICP (AES and MS), Trace organic pollutants (PCB, dioxins, pesticides) GC and HPLC (Columns Detectors and Application)

EN3601 - Environmental Monitoring Instruments Syllabus Regulation 2021 Anna University

Unit IV: Atmosphereic Analysis

Ambient air and flue gas, Gaseous pollutants-Determination of time-weighted average concentration (Absorption trains, solid adsorbents and differential tubes), Direct reading instruments(fluorescence, chemiluminescent, IR and Electrochemical sensors, GC-MS for trace organics, Particulate sampling methods- High volume sampler, personal sampler, PM 10 and 2.5, Metals Direct (XRF) and dissolution methods (AAS/AES)

Unit V: Analysis Of Soil And Waste

Problem in analysis of soil and Waste -sampling, pretreatment -extraction and clean up, New extraction techniques, Automated soxhlet and solvent extraction, microwave digestion and sonication, SCF(CO2), Analysis for trace pollutants, Analysis of leachate.

References:

  1. Reeve, R.N., “Introduction to Environmental Analysis”, Analytical Techniques in the Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2002.
  2. Barcelo, D.(editor), “Environmental analysis. Techniques, Applications and Quality Assurance”, Elsevier, The Netherlands, 1996
  3. Paul R. Loconto Trace Environmental Quantitative Analysis: Principles, Techniques, and applications, Marcel Dekker; 2nd Edition, 2005,
  4. Janick Artiola, Ian Pepper and Mark Brusseau, Environmental Monitoring and Characterization Academic Press, 2004.

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