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Air Pollution and Control

By Prof. Bhola Ram Gurjar   |   IIT Roorkee
Learners enrolled: 18918
The objective of the course is to impart the knowledge and understanding of causes and effects of air pollution and their controlling mechanisms. The course will provide a deeper understanding of air pollutants, pollution inventory and modelling. The course also imparts knowledge on the impacts of air pollution on different aspects such as policy, human health and various contemporary technological innovation for betterment of air quality.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: 
UG and PG (including Pre-PhD)
PREREQUISITES: Nil
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Industries dealing with emissions and air pollution control may value this course.
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Civil Engineering
  • Environment
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date : 24 Jan 2022
End Date : 15 Apr 2022
Enrollment Ends : 07 Feb 2022
Exam Date : 24 Apr 2022 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1 : Air Pollution: Introduction and Impacts of air pollution on human health, vegetation, animals, building materials, structures, and atmosphere, soil and water bodies.
Week 2 : Sources, classification and formation/transformation of air pollutants: Meteorology and Atmospheric Stability.
Week 3 : Lapse Rate, Plume Behaviour, and Air Quality Monitoring, Air Quality Index (AQI)
Week 4 : Air Quality Modelling, Gaussian dispersion models: point, line and area source models
Week 5 : Emissions Inventory: Transport, Industrial, Agricultural, Residential and Commercial sectors
Week 6 : Application of Remote sensing/Satellite based data in emission inventory, Source apportionment using receptor modelling.
Week 7 : Indoor air pollution: sources, types and health impacts. Sampling, assessment and evaluation of Indoor air quality.
Week 8 : Global and regional environmental issues of air pollution: Ozone depletion, Climate change, Global warming, Acid rain.
Week 9 : Air pollution control devices, equipment and their design.
Week 10 :  Air pollution emission standards, National and international policies, acts, rules and regulations.
Week 11 : Emerging technologies and strategies to mitigate air pollution, Current challenges and way forward.
Week 12 : Lab-based measurements of air pollutants.

Books and references

1.Wark, K., Warner, C.F., and Davis, W.T., “Air Pollution: Its Origin and Control”, Addison-Wesley Longman. 1998.
2.Boubel, R.W., Fox, D.L., Turner, D.B., Stern, A.C., “Fundamentals of Air Pollution”, Academic Press. 2005.
3.Seinfeld, J.H., Pandis, S.N., “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics”, John Wiley. 2006.
4.Lodge, J.P. (Ed.), “Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis”, CRC Press. 1988.
5.Gurjar, B.R., Molina, L., Ojha, C.S.P. (Eds.), “Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts”, CRC Press. 2010.

Instructor bio

Prof. Bhola Ram Gurjar

IIT Roorkee
Dr. Bhola Ram Gurjar holds a PhD in the area of Environmental Risk Analysis from India's premier technological institution I.I.T. Delhi followed by Postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz, Germany. He is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering Department and a Joint Faculty in Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Transportation Systems (CTRANS) at I.I.T. Roorkee. He has been Dean of Resources and Alumni Affairs (DORA) from June 2017 - April 2021 and Head of CTRANS from February 2015 - February 2018 at IIT Roorkee. He has also headed the Max Planck Partner Group for Megacities & Global Change at IIT Roorkee from 2006-2011. Prof. Gurjar has about 30 years’ progressive professional experience in industry, teaching, training, research, and consultancy. He is among the leading academics and researchers who have worked extensively in the area of environmental science and engineering specially focused on air and water pollution, and environmental quality and health risk assessment, which is reflected in his several highly cited research papers published on these themes. His present research interests include megacities; air and water pollution; environmental impact and risk assessment; atmospheric emissions and climate change; Biofuels and their emissions, and integrated cross-disciplinary study of science and policy issues of the environment, health, energy, economy, technology, infrastructure and resources – particularly from the global change, sustainable development and risk governance perspectives.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 24 April 2022 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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