Syllabus

Water quality description, various characteristics of water, water quality criteria and standards, mass balance, steady-state solution, and response time, particular solutions, elements of reaction kinetics, spatial and temporal aspects of contaminant transport, transport mechanism-convection, diffusion, dispersion river and streams, convective diffusion equation and its application, water quality in rivers, Streeter-Phelps: model for point sources, BOD and oxygen, gas transfer and oxygen re-aeration, distributed systems (steady-state), water-quality environments, rivers and streams, estuaries, lakes and impoundments, dissolved oxygen and pathogens, BOD and oxygen saturation, gas transfer and oxygen reaeration, Streeter-Phelps model: point and distributed sources, photosynthesis/respiration, eutrophication and temperature, eutrophication problem and nutrients, heat budgets, thermal stratification, water quality management, socio-economic aspects of water quality management, environmental impact assessment and analysis of water resource projects, groundwater remediation

An ability to independently carryout research/investigation and development work to solve practical problems

Ability to write and present a substantial technical report/document

: Students should be able to demonstrate a degree of mastery in Water Resources Engineering.

Ability to outline the extent of water pollution in selected global locations.
Ability to understand the basic concepts of groundwater quality and modeling.
Ability to understand and apply concepts of water quality and pollution processes in rivers and lakes.

Chapra Steven C, Surface Water Quality Modeling, Mc graw Hill Int

2. Thomann Robert V and Muller John A, Principles of Surface Water Quality Modeling and Control, Pearson

Schnoor Jerald L, Environmental modeling : fate and transport of pollutants in water, air, and soil, Wiley-Interscience

Thomann Robert V, Systems Analysis and Water Quality Management, Environmental Science Services Division