SYLLABUS

1. Environmental Engineering
(P23CET05)
2024-25
II B Tech II Semester
Civil Engineering

2. UNITS
1. Sources, Quality and Quantity Perspectives of Water.
2. Collection and Conveyance of Water & Water treatment
3. Distribution System.
4. Introduction to Sanitation & Quality and Quantity
Perspectives of wastewater.
5. Sewers and sewer appurtenances & Construction of
sewers.

3. Topics:
 Surface sources
 Subsurface sources
 Physical, chemical and biological characteristics
 Estimation of water demand.
 Water consumption rate
 Fluctuations in rate of demand
 Design period.
 Population forecasting methods
1. Sources, Quality and Quantity Perspectives of Water

4. 2. Collection and Conveyance of Water & Water
treatment
Topics:
 Intakes.
 Types of Intakes.
 Factors governing location of intakes.
 Pumps.
 Types of conduits.
 Types of pipes and pipe appurtenances.
 Working principles of water treatment units.
 Screening.
 Plain sedimentation & sedimentation aided with
coagulation.
 Filtration.
 Disinfection.
 Water softening.
 Miscellaneous treatments .

5. Topics:
 Requirements of a good distribution system.
 System of distribution.
 Distribution reservoirs.
 Layout of distribution system.
 Design of distribution system.
 Analysis of pipe networks.
 Appurtenances in distribution system.
 Detection and prevention of wastage of water in
distribution system.
3. Distribution System

6. Topics:
 Systems of sanitation – relative merits & demerits.
 Collection and conveyance of waste water.
 Sewerage – classification of sewerage systems
 Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of
wastewater,
 Analysis of wastewater.
 Importance of BOD and COD.
 Effluent standards and impacts of disposal.
4. Introduction to Sanitation
&
Quality and Quantity Perspectives of
wastewater

7. Topics:
 Wastewater Collection.
 Estimation of dry weather flow and storm water flow.
 Hydraulic design of sewers.
 Types of sewers.
 Design of storm water drains.
 Factors affecting the selection of material for sewer
construction.
 Materials for sewers.
 Joints in sewers.
 Shapes of sewers.
 Maintenance, cleaning & ventilation of sewers.
 Sewer appurtenances.
5. Sewers and sewer appurtenances
&
Construction of sewers

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