CHE883:ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

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Course Objectives:

To make the students aware about our chemical environment and components associated
with it

To make students aware about the role of chemistry in understanding various

environmental phenomena

To point out major threatened areas of environment and their appropriate solution by
chemical approach

Unit I
Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and
Atmospheric Chemistry : Introduction to Environmental Chemistry: 12 principles of
green chemistry with examples and numerical problems related to atom economy,
Introduction to Atmosphere: Regions and composition, Electromagnetic wave
properties and Absorption of light by molecules, chemistry of ozone layer, filtration of
sunlight's UV component by atmosphere, health aspects of ozone depletion,
numerical problems related to variation of energy of light with wavelength, creation
of ozone layer in stratosphere, chapman mechanism, Catalytic process of ozone
destruction by: Mechanism I and Mechanism II, Destruction by Nitric Oxide, Without
oxygen, Atomic Bromine and Chlorine and Mechanism of ozone hole creation: With
special reference to Antarctica
Unit II
Tropospheric chemistry : Concentration units of atmospheric pollutants,
interconversion of gas concentrations with numerical problems, urban ozone,
photochemical smog process, limiting VOC and NO emissions to reduce ground- level
ozone and technological control of emissions, catalytic converters, reduction of NOs
from power plants
Aerosols and Acid deposition : Particulates in Air Pollution, Sources of particles
(Coarse and fine), Sulfate aerosol formation and Acid Rain and its effect,
Neutralization of Acid rain by soil, Release of Aluminium in soil, rivers and lakes and
other effects
Unit III
Chemistry of Natural waters : Oxidation-reduction chemistry in natural waters,
balancing of redox equation by ion electron method, dissolved oxygen, Dissolved
Oxygen, BOD, COD: concept and numerical problems
Decomposition of Organic Matter and ions in water : Decomposition of Organic
Matter in water, Sulfur Compounds in Natural Waters, Acid Mine Drainage, Ion
concentrations in natural waters and drinking water, Abundant ions in fresh water,
Fluoride ion in water and Alkalinity indices, Hardness index, Aluminium in natural
water along with numerical problems
Unit IV
Purification of Water : Different purification technology for potable water, water
disinfection, aeration of water, removal of calcium and magnesium, removal of
colloidal particles by precipitation, disinfection to prevent illness by physical and
chemical methods and disinfection of water by membrane technology, Aeration of
Water, Removal of Calcium and Magnesium, Removal of Colloidal Particles by
Precipitation
The Chemical Contamination and Treatment of Wastewater and Sewage : The
chemical contamination and treatment of waste water and sewage waste water,
general treatment with specific removal of nitrogen and phosphate ion impurities,
reducing salt water concentration and treatment of cyanide ion in waste water
Unit V

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Toxic Heavy Metals : Speciation and the Toxicity of Heavy Metals, Mercury Vapor,
Mercury amalgam, Mercury in chlor- Alkali Process, The 2+ ion of Mercury, Methyl
mercury Toxicity including Numerical problems Lead: Elemental Lead as an
Environmental Risk, Ionic 2+ Lead in Water and Food as an Environmental Hazard to
Humans, Lead Salts as Glazes and Pigments, Ionic 4+ Lead in Automobile Batteries,
Tetravalent Organic Lead Compounds as Gasoline Additives, Environmental Lead from
Leaded Gasoline, Numerical problems
Toxic Organic Compounds : Introduction and classification of toxic organic
compounds, Organochlorine Insecticides: HCB, DDT ,Bio-concentration, bioaccumulation and biomagnification, Other organochlorides, Principles of Toxicology,
Organophosphate and Carbamate, natural and green insecticides, integrated pest
management

Unit VI
Energy and Climate Change : Molecular Vibrations:Energy Absorption by
Greenhouse Gases, Fossil-fuel energy: Coal, Natural gas, CNG, Petroleum: Fractional
Distillation, Gasoline and antiknocking agents, Sequestration of CO2 by various
methods, Effects of Global Warming, The mechanism of green house effect, Earth's
Energy Emissions, The greenhouse effect and Earth's energy balance with numerical
problems, The major green house gases: Discussion on absorption of IR, Sources and
sinks of carbon dioxide, Water vapor, Atmospheric Window, Atmospheric residence
time, Other green house gases: Methane, Nitrousoxide, CFCs, Tropospheric ozone,
climate-modifying effects of aerosols with numerical of residence time
Text Books:
1. ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY by COLIN BAIRD, MICHAEL CANN, W. H. FREEMAN
AND COMPANY, 5th Edition, (2012)
References:
1. ELEMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY by RONALD A. HITES, JONATHAN D.
RAFF, WILEY, 2nd Edition, (2012)

2. ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, 3/E by GARY W.

VANLOON & STEPHEN J. DUFFY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 3rd Edition, (2011)

3. ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY by B.K. SHARMA, GOYAL PUBLISHERS &

DISTRIBUTORS PVT. LTD., 13th Edition, (2014)

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