WM60014: Fate And Transport Of Contaminants In Water
| WM60014 | |
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| Course name | Fate And Transport Of Contaminants In Water |
| Offered by | School of Water Resources |
| Credits | 4 |
| L-T-P | 4-0-0 |
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| Semester | Spring |
Syllabus
Syllabus mentioned in ERP
Introduction: Structure and basic properties of water, sources of water pollution, point and nonpoint sources, water contaminants, conservative and non-conservative pollutants, water quality criteria and standards.Fate and Transport Processes: Fate processes of continents released in environment, concepts of mass transfer and transformation, mass, momentum and energy balance, advection, diffusion, dispersion, advection–diffusion equation and its fundamental solutions, volatilization, leaching, sorption/desorption, chemical and photochemical transformations, biological transformations, kinetics and equilibrium of fate processes, mathematical formulation of fate and transport processes.Modelling Fate and Transport in Natural Systems: Dispersion and transformation of contaminants in natural system originating from instantaneous spills and continuous discharges, modelling of rivers, lakes and reservoirs, watersheds, estuaries, wetlands, and groundwater flow and transport. Water Quality Data Analysis and Numerical Modelling: Statistical methods for analyzing water-quality data, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, population differences, data transformations to achieve normality, correlation between variables, regression analysis, confidence limits of predictions, statistical uncertainties, fundamentals of numerical modelling, multi-objective optimization, parameter estimation, calibration, validation, and estimation of predictive uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, model efficiency.