Subject Code: CE4L035 Subject Name: Industrial Pollution Prevention L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): None
Nature and characteristics of industrial wastes; Prevention versus control of industrial pollution; Linkage between technology and pollution prevention; Tools for clean processes, reuse, recycle, recovery, source reduction, raw material substitution, toxic use reduction and process modifications;  Unit operations in separation technology; Separation technologies as tools for waste minimization. Process optimization for cleaner industrial processes; Flow sheet analysis; Energy and resource (material and water) audits for efficient usage and conservation; Waste audits, emission inventories and waste management hierarchy for process industries; Thermodynamic constraints to waste minimization; Holistic and critical technology assessment; Environmental performance indicators; Concept of industrial ecology and symbiosis of eco-parks. Case studies on industrial applications of cleaner technologies in chemical, metallurgical, pulp and paper, textile, electroplating, leather, dairy, cement and other industries.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Bishop P.E.Pollution Prevention: Fundamentals and Practice, McGraw Hill.
  2. Freeman H.M.Industrial Pollution Prevention Handbook, McGraw Hill, 1995.
  3. Allen D.T. and Rosselot K.S.Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes, John Wiley.
  4. Allen D.T., Bakshani N. and Rosselot K.S.Pollution Prevention: Homework and Design Problems for Engineering Curricula, American Institute for Pollution Prevention.
  5. Johansson A.Clean Technology, Lewis Publishers.
  6. Theodore L. and McGuinn Y.C.Pollution Prevention, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NewYork.
  7. Asolekar S.R. and Gopichandran R.Preventive Environmental Management - An Indian Perspective, Foundation Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (The Indian Association of Cambridge University Press, UK).