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NETAJI SUBHAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

NEW DELHI-110078
Department of Chemistry

FOUNDATION COURSES OFFERED BY DEPARTMENT


OF CHEMISTRY, NSUT.

COURSE : ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND GREEN CHEMISTRY

A. OVERVIEW OF COURSE

Name of Course Environmental Science and Green


Chemistry

Offering Department Department of Chemistry

B.Tech Branches to which this All Branches of Sem I and II


course is
offered

OVERVIEW:
The Environmental Science and Green Chemistry course is offered to first-year students of all
B. Tech branches. In this course, basic knowledge of Green Chemistry, Environmental Science
and Analytical Techniques, their motive and applications in day-to-day life is being provided to
I Year students. The objective is to cover a broad spectrum in the field of Environment and Green
Chemistry.
This will help the students of these branches to understand the fact that Environmental
Chemistry is different from Green Chemistry. While Green chemistry aims to reduce potential
pollution at its source by chemically engineering products that minimize such pollution,
Environmental Chemistry is simply the study of biochemical and chemical phenomena that
occur in the environment. This will give an opportunity to the students to know the occurrence,
movements, and transformations of chemicals in the environment.

B. SYLLABUS (THEORY)

Course No Title of the Course Course Structure Pre-Requisite

FCCH0103 Environmental Science and L-T-P None


Green Chemistry 3-0-2

COURSE OUTCOMES (COs):


After studying this course students will be able to
1. Define various kinds of pollution existing on earth and suggest the methods of their prevention
and control.
2. Demonstrate the water quality parameters and methods of treatment of water to make it
useful for various purposes such as for drinking, industry, agricultural usage, etc
3. Discuss the 12 principles of green chemistry and appraise how the practice of green chemistry
reduces the environmental toxicity which may be resulted from chemical reactions.
4. Recognize different types of green materials and their significance.
5. Identify methods of separation using Chromatography and solvent extraction.
6. Analyze compounds based on spectroscopic methods of analysis.

1
COURSE CONTENT
UNIT 1
Environmental Sciences: Introduction, Air pollution*, water pollution*, Soil Pollution*, Solid waste
management, Nuclear hazards*, Electronic Waste*, Case Studies (Bhopal Gas tragedy and Chernboyl),
Bio-remediation.
(*causes, prevention and remedies of all types to be discussed)
UNIT II
Water Chemistry: Water Quality Parameters: Hardness of water and treatment, alkalinity of water,
Biological and Bacteriological parameters (COD and BOD), Numericals on Hardness of water based on
ions present and EDTA titration method, Numericals on alkalinity of water (total and individual
alkalinity, P and M only)
UNIT III
Green Chemistry: Introduction to Green Chemistry, Principles of green chemistry with special
emphasis on principles 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9. Real-world cases: surfactants for CO2, designing for
environmentally safe marine antifoulants, Biodegradable plastics and Biodiesel synthesis and use.
UNIT IV
Green Fuels and Bio-Polymer chemistry: Introduction and importance of green fuels, Green
hydrogen, Photocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical water splitting, Hydrogen fuel cell, Production of
Biodiesel from Jatropha and Biomass-based ethanol, Synthesis and applications of certain:
biocompatible polymers - Polylacetic Acid, Cellulose and Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), Nanomaterials;
Advantages of biocompatible materials over synthetic materials.
UNIT V
Analytical Techniques in Chemistry: Introduction to Chromatography, Adsorption (TLC and column
chromatography) Chromatography, Partition Chromatography (paper chromatography) and examples
of mixtures to be separated using both types of chromatographic techniques, Introduction to UV-Visible
spectroscopy, Instrumentation and Applications.

SUGGESTED READINGS
1. Green Chemistry: Theory & Practice/P.T. Anastas & J.C. Warner/ Oxford Univ Press, 2000.
2. Solar-Driven Green Hydrogen Generation and Storage, Elsevier Science Publisher, 2023.
3. Green Biopolymers and Their Nanocomposite – Dhorali Gnanasekaran, Spinger publisher, 2000
4. Applications of absorption spectroscopy of organic compounds by John Robert Dyer, 2019.
5. Organic Spectroscopy by William Kemp, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
6. Perspectives in Environmental Studies by A Kaushik and C P Kaushik, New Age International
(P) Ltd., Publishers, 2006.
7. A Text Book of Environmental Studies by Shashi Chawla, Himalaya Publishing House, 2017.
8. Engineering Chemistry by Jain & Jain, Dhanpat Rai Publishing Company (P) Limited, 2004.

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