Mechanical (ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT) 6th
Semester course outline
Bangladesh Polytechnic
Institute
Technology: Mechanical
Semester: 6th
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (5840)
Course Outline
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Class No.
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Discussion and Explanation of
Topics/ Titles
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Remarks
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Class-1
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v Understand the basic concepts of environment.
Ø Define: environment, Marine environment, Freshwater
environment, Nutrients, Mangrove
forest Photochemical
oxidant, Pollutant, Receptor,
Sink, Pathways
of pollutant, Speciation.
Ø Mention the main components of environment.
Ø Mention the functions of environment.
Ø Describe natural environment, man-made environment and
social environment
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Class-2
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Understand ecology and
eco-systems.
Ø Define ecology and eco-system.
Ø Mention the range of tolerance in eco-system.
Ø Explain the biotic and abiotic components of ecosystem.
Ø Explain briefly how does eco-system work.
Ø Explain the stability of eco-system
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Class-3
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Understand ecology and
eco-systems.
Ø Explain the following ecological terms:
Food chain, Food web,
Biodiversity,
Biomass, Ecological pyramid,
Pyramid of
biomass, Pyramid of energy,
Bioconcentration,
Bio-magnification, Restoration
ecology.
Ø Narrate the following bio-geochemical cycles of ecosystem.
Ø Describe the following global environmental issues:
Global environment, Earth and
other environmental
summits, climate change and ozone
layer depletion.
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Class-4
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Understand the air and the
atmospheric regions.
Ø Mention different layers of atmosphere.
Ø Mention the average composition of the atmosphere at sea
level.
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Class-5
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Understand the air and the
atmospheric regions.
Ø Describe the chemical species and particulates
present in the atmosphere.
Ø Describe the importance ozone layer.
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Class-6
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Understand the air pollution and
its sources &
effects.
Ø Define air pollution.
Ø Mention the composition of clean dry atmospheric air.
Ø List the air pollutants.
Ø Identify the sources of air pollutions.
Ø List the green house gases
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Class-7
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Understand the air pollution and
its sources &
effects.
Ø Mention the effects of air pollution on human health,
animals, plants and non-living
things.
Ø Explain the formation of photo-chemical smog and its
effect.
Ø List the disasters of major air pollution in the world
mentioning location, causes and
effects.
Ø Explain the causes of acid rain and its effect on
eco-system.
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Class-8
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Feedback
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Class-9
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Feedback
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Class-10
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v Understand the control of air pollution at the
sources.
Ø Mention the methods of air pollution control.
Ø Describe the following devices: gravitational settling
chamber, cyclone separator, wet scrubber, centrifugal scrubber, fabric
filter, catalytic converter.
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Class-11
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Understand the sources of water
pollution and its effects.
Ø Define water pollution.
Ø Mention the specification of ideal water as per
recommendation of the World Heath
Organization
(WHO).
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Class-12
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Understand the sources of water
pollution and its effects.
Ø List the different types of water pollutants.
Ø Describe the sources of water pollution.
Ø Describe the effects of water pollution on human
health, animal, plants and
environment.
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Class-13
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Understand the monitoring of water
pollution.
Ø Define the following terms:
Ø Dissolved oxygen (DO).
Ø Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD).
Ø Chemical oxygen demand (COD).
Ø Total organic carbon (TOC).
Ø Threshold limit value (TLV).
Ø Mention the method of determination of pH value of
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Class-14
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Feedback
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Class-15
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Feedback
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Class-16
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Understand the monitoring of water
pollution.
Ø Mention the method of determination of biochemical
oxygen demand (BOD) in a sample of
water.
Ø Mention the method of determination of chemical
oxygen demand (COD) in a sample of
water
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Class-17
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Understand the waste water
treatment.
Ø Define the primary treatment, secondary treatment and
tertiary treatment of waste water.
Ø Define the following terms; ETP, Oxidation pond,
waste stabilization pond,
trickling filter, Activated slug.
Ø Mention the methods of primary and secondary
treatment of industrial waste
water.
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Class-18
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Understand the sound pollution and
its control.
Ø Define sound, sound wave and sound pollution.
Ø Mention the scale of measuring sound intensity.
Ø Mention the sources of sound pollution
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Class-19
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Understand the sound pollution and
its control.
Ø Describe the effect of sound pollution on human health.
Ø Describe the methods of control of sound pollution
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Class-20
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Understand the soil pollution and
its management.
Ø Define soil pollution.
Ø List the classification of soil pollution.
Ø Mention the sources of soil pollution.
Ø Describe the effect of soil pollution on human health
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Class-21
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Understand the radioactive
pollution and its
control.
Ø Define radioactive pollution.
Ø Mention the sources of radioactive pollution.
Ø List the causes of radioactive pollution.
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Class-22
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Understand the radioactive
pollution and its
control.
Ø Explain the effect of radioactive pollution on human
health.
Ø Describe the method of control of radioactive pollution
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Class-23
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. Understand the solid
waste management.
Ø Define solid waste.
Ø List the sources of solid waste.
Ø Mention the classification of solid waste.
Ø Mention the methods of collection of solid waste
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Class-24
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Understand the solid waste
management.
Ø Mention the waste management strategies in
Bangladesh.
Ø Describe the recycling of solid wastes.
Ø Describe the potential method of disposal of solid
waste
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Class-25
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Understand the major environmental
issues in
Bangladesh.
Ø List the major environmental issues in Bangladesh.
Ø Describe the following disaster management of
Bangladesh
Ø flood, cyclone, tidal surge, Cyclone(SIDR, AILA, Nargis,
Tsunami), landslide, earthquakes and salinity
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Class-26
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Understand the pesticide pollution
in Bangladesh and
its management.
Ø Define pesticide.
Ø Make a list of pesticides
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Class-27
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Understand the pesticide pollution
in Bangladesh and
its management.
Ø Mention the causes of pesticide pollution in Bangladesh.
Ø Describe the effect of pesticide pollution in the
environment
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Class-28
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Understand the national
environmental legislations
and guidelines environmental frame
work and policy
in Bangladesh.
Ø Define, EA, EIA, IEA, NEMAP, DOE, BELA, GPS, GIS
Ø Mention environmental act and legislations prescribed
for air and water quality
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Class-29
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Understand the arsenic pollution
in Bangladesh.
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Ø Mention the arsenic pollution of water in Bangladesh.
Ø Explain the effects of arsenic pollution on human health.
Ø Describe the causes of arsenic in ground water
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Class-30
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Understand the national
environmental legislations
and guidelines environmental frame
work and policy
in Bangladesh.
Ø Describe environmental act prescribed for industries in
Bangladesh.
Ø Describe the guide lines of environment prescribed for
industries in Bangladesh.
Ø Describe the environmental frame work in Bangladesh.
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Class-31
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Feedback
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Class-32
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Feedback
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Class-33
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Class test-2
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REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Pollution control in process
industries
- S. P. Mahajan
2. Environmental Engineering
- Peavy, Rowe and Techobanglous
3. Air pollution
- V. P. Kudesia
4. Industrial Noise Control
- Bruce Fader
5. Pesticide Pollution
- Kudecsia and Charaya
6. Water Pollution
- V. P. Kudesia
7. Peoples Report on Bangladesh
Environment 2001
Atia Rahman, M. Ashraf Ali and Farooque
Choudhury
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