Prerequisite: None
Principles and techniques for industrial pollution prevention and waste minimization; Nature and characteristics of industrial wastes; Prevention versus control of industrial pollution; Source reduction tools and techniques:raw material substitution, toxic use reduction and elimination, process modification and procedural changes; Recycling and reuse; Opportunities and barriers to cleaner technologies; Pollution prevention economics; Waste audits, emission inventories and waste management hierarchy for process industries; Material balance approach;
Material and process mapping approach; Emission sources; Estimation of fugitive emissions; Environmental impact of VOCs; Energy and resource (material and water) audits for efficient usage and conservation. Unit operations in separation technology; Pollution prevention for unit operations: Boilers and Heat Exchangers;
Storage tanks; Distillation columns; Application of separation technologies for pollution prevention; Process optimization for cleaner industrial processes: Flow sheet analysis: qualitative and quantitative approaches using mass exchange networks; 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. Presently used wastewater treatment systems such as MBR, MBBR, SBR, UASB reactor, Anammox, etc
Books

• Freeman H. M. Industrial Pollution Prevention Handbook, McGraw Hill.
• Shen T. T., Industrial Pollution Prevention, Springer
• Bishop P.E. Pollution Prevention: Fundamentals and Practice, McGraw Hill.
• Allen D.T. and Rosselot, K.S. Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes, John Wiley.
• Allen D.T., Bakshani, N. and Rosselot, K.S., Pollution Prevention: Homework and Design Problems for Engineering Curricula, American Institute for Pollution Prevention, and Center for Waste Reduction Technologies.
• Johansson A., Clean Technology, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.
• Theodore, L. and McGuinn, Y. C.Pollution prevention, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NewYork.
• Eckenfelder, W. W., Industrial Water Pollution Control, McGraw-Hill.
• Nemerow, N. L., Zero Pollution for Industry: Waste Minimization through Industrial Complexes, John Wiley & Sons.