Environmental Quality Monitoring & Analysis

Week 1: Introduction; Definition of Environment; Link between source/environment/receptor; Exposure; Health effects; Toxicology; Defining the need for fate and transport.
Week 2: Chemicals of concern; relevant properties for environmental fate and transport; Definition of Equilibrium – partition constants, solubility, vapor pressure, henry’s constant, Koc, Kow etc. Equilibrium partitioning of chemicals between different phases of the environment.
Week 3: Parameters for environmental water/ air / soil / sediment – screening parameters, priority air pollutants – definitions of PM
Week 4: Monitoring of environmental parameters – screening parameters – BOD, COD, TOC, TDS; Environmental sampling – definition and synthesis of a monitoring/sampling/analysis method. Quality Assurance and quality control (QA/QC).
Week 5: Methods for sampling/processing/analysis of organic and inorganic constituents in air/water/soil/sediment.
Week 6: Introduction to environmental transport – BOX Models and the application to multimedia transport of pollutants
Week 7: Atmospheric Dispersion – Gaussian Dispersion model
Week 8: Fundamentals of mass transport – definition of intraphase and inter-phase chemical flux; interphase mass transport, diffusion coefficient and convenction mass transfer coefficients.
Week 9: Chemical Exchange between air-water
Week 10:Chemical Exchange between sediment-water
Week 11:Cemical exchange between soil-air
Week 12:Overall transport model and scenarios

Environmental Chemodynamics - Louis J Thibodeaux, 2nd Edition, Wiley Interscience
Environmental Engineering – Peavy, Rowe and Tchobanoglous, McGrawHill.
Additional References:
1. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics – Seinfeld and Pandis.

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 Madras .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