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The document provides information on different types of environmental pollution - air, water, soil, and marine pollution. It discusses the causes, sources, effects and control measures for each type of pollution. The key points covered are: 1) Air pollution is caused by both primary and secondary pollutants from various human and natural activities; 2) Water pollution has both point and non-point sources that can spread disease and deplete oxygen; 3) Soil pollution reduces fertility through erosion, excess fertilizers, and industrial/domestic waste; 4) Marine pollution stems from sewage, chemicals, plastics, and greenhouse gases dumped into oceans. Control involves treating waste, reducing plastic use, and monitoring environmental quality

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Notes On Pollution

The document provides information on different types of environmental pollution - air, water, soil, and marine pollution. It discusses the causes, sources, effects and control measures for each type of pollution. The key points covered are: 1) Air pollution is caused by both primary and secondary pollutants from various human and natural activities; 2) Water pollution has both point and non-point sources that can spread disease and deplete oxygen; 3) Soil pollution reduces fertility through erosion, excess fertilizers, and industrial/domestic waste; 4) Marine pollution stems from sewage, chemicals, plastics, and greenhouse gases dumped into oceans. Control involves treating waste, reducing plastic use, and monitoring environmental quality

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LECTURE NOTES

ON
ENVIRONMENTA
L POLLUTION
ENVIRONMENT &
ECOLOGY
B.Tech 2nd year

By
Dr. Ranvijay Pratap Singh
Assistant Professor

Faculty of Engineering & Technology


University of Lucknow
AIR POLLUTION

Air pollution is define as the composition of air is disturbed due to presence of gas,
smoke, dust, chemical particulate etc., which are injurious to human being, plant
and animal.

Types of Air pollution

i) Primary pollutant: Pollutants that are emitted directly from the human
or natural activities are known as primary pollutant. For example, CO2,
SO2, NOx, particulate matter, hydrocarbons etc.
ii) Secondary pollutant: when primary pollutants are react with
atmospheric moisture content then a new category of pollutants is
form,
known as secondary pollutant. For example, carbonic acid, nitric acid,
sulphuric acid etc.
Cause of Air pollution

a) Urbanization
b) Population
c) Deforestation
d) Industrialization
e) Vehicle emission

Major Air pollutants and their effects


f) Carbon dioxide: the concentration of CO2 gas increase in atmosphere due to
emission from vehicles, burning of fossil fuel, emission from volcano,
industries, agricultural activity etc. it increase green house effect which
causes global warming and climate change.
g) Carbon monoxide: carbon monoxide gas releases after incomplete
combustion of fossil fuel or other product. The source of CO is vehicle
emission, burning of coal, biomass combustion etc. CO causes headache,
dizziness, heart failure (in blood CO combines with oxygen which reduced
the affinity of haemoglobin towards oxygen), etc.
h) Sulphur dioxide: SO2 releases from oil refineries, volcanic eruption, and
chemical industries etc. sulphur dioxide react with moisture to form
secondary pollutant which causes eye irritation. It can also cause allergic
reaction and asthma.
d) Lead: tetra ethyl lead used as anti-knocking agents in petrol for smooth
function vehicle. Lead particle coming out from the exhaust of vehicle
and
mixed with air. It causes injurious effect on kidney and liver. It also lowers
down the intelligence power in children.
e) Nitrogen oxide: it release from vehicle exhausts, volcanic eruption,
lighting
etc. like SO2, it also react with moisture content present in atmosphere and
causes eye irritation.
i) Filters:used
Techniques filterforremove particulate
prevention of Airmatter from the gas stream. Bag house
pollution
filter system is the most common and it is made up of cotton fibers.
When polluted gas passed through it, then polluted gas are deposited on
cotton fibers.
ii) Electrostatic scrubber: the emitting dust is charged with ions and ionized
particulate matter is collected on oppositely charged surface. The
collected particles are removed by shaking the surface.
iii) Scrubbers: Scrubbers are wet collectors. They remove aerosol from a
stream of gas either by collecting wet particle on a surface followed by
their removal on the particles are wetted by scrubber liquid.

WATER POLLUTION

The undesirable biological or chemical substance present in water which


adversely affect living organism is referred as water pollution.

Source of Water pollution

i) Point source pollution: if pollutants discharge from single identifiable


source then it is known as point source. For example, municipal sources,
industrial sources etc.
ii) Non-point source pollution: if pollutants discharge from random or
scattered source then it is known as non-point source. For example,
construction site, agricultural site, Acid rain, animal waste etc.

Cause & effects of Water pollution

a) Disease causing agents: the micro-organism including bacteria, virus,


protozoa, if present in drinking water causes disease. For example,
b) Oxygen depleting waste: organic matters present in water are degraded by
microorganism present in water which required oxygen. If large amount of
organic matter present in waste water then large amount of oxygen is
required by the microorganism to degrade the waste. Therefore oxygen
content in water decrease. The amount of oxygen consumed by
microorganism is referred as Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD). High level
of BOC means large amount of waste present in water.
c) Water soluble inorganic chemicals: the elements like lead, mercury,
cadmium, arsenic adversely affect the human being and animals. For
example, cadmium causes Itai-Itai disease, mercury causes Minamata
disease.
d) Suspended solids: if suspended solid present in water bodies, then
water
become turbid and therefore proper sunlight does not reach to the aquatic
plant and animal which disturb the life of aquatic ecosystem.
Control measure for preventing water pollution

i) Industrial effluent and domestic waste must be treated before disposal.


ii) Recycling of waste water through waste water treatment.
iii) Public awareness program.

SOIL POLLUTION

Soil pollution can be defined as introduction of undesirable substance in soil


which adversely affects its physical, chemical and biological properties.

Source of Soil pollution


Cause of Soil pollution or degradation

a) Soil erosion: removal or movement of top soil from one place to another
place is known as soil erosion, it is a natural process. But the erosion
enhances by human activities like mining, construction, new land for
agricultural practices, deforestation, overgrazing etc. Due to erosion, soil
become less fertile and erosion also reduce the soil water holding capacity.
b) Excess use of fertilizers: Essential micronutrients like N, P, K are supplied
by chemical fertilizer to increase the crop yield or productivity. The
microorganism present in the soil converts nitrogen into nitrate ions; enter
into food chain from soil disturbing the biochemical process.
c) Acid Rain: acid rain increases the acidity of soil which reduces the crop
yield.
d) Salinity of water: Due to excessive irrigation, concentration of soluble salt
increase in soil, then productivity and quality of soil decrease. These
salts
deposit on the surface then diffusion of oxygen and drainage of water in soil
does not occur therefore growth of plant is slow down.
e) industrial
Industrial waste:waste.
various pollutants
Discharge from present
chemicalin the fertilizer
environment
from
industries, pharmaceutical companies are highly polluting. and

Effect of Soil pollution

i) Salinity and water logging reduce the fertility of soil and crop yield.
ii) Toxic chemical present in the soil also affect the plant growth and human
life.
iii) Soil pollution contaminated the underground water.

Control measures for preventing soil pollution

i) Soil erosion must be prevented by proper tree plantation.


ii) Waste from industry and domestic must be treated before dumping.
iii) Replace synthetic fertilizers with organic fertilizers.
iv) Toxic and non degradable materials must be banned.
v) Recycling and reuse of waste materials.
vi) Public awareness.
MARINE POLLUTION

Marine pollution defined as contamination of oceans or seas, due to presence of


unwanted materials or pollutants. The most common pollutants include chemicals,
oils, toxic bio-matter, plastics etc.

Cause of Marine pollution

i) Rivers receive huge amount of sewage, garbage, pesticides, toxic


chemical from industries ends up in the sea.
ii) Dumping of radioactive elements, discharge of oils and petroleum
product into the sea also causes marine pollution.
iii) Large amount of plastic bags dumped into sea also causes marine
pollution.
iv) The waste material from container ships like gases, chemicals, and
sewage also causes marine pollution.
v) Greenhouse gases releases from burning of fossil fuel, dissolve in the
sea
water and making sea water more acidic.
vi) Deep sea mining also causes marine pollution.
Effect of marine pollution

a) Dumping of sewage, chemicals, organic matters into ocean can results in


depletion of oxygen. Due to depletion of oxygen, it is hard to survive aquatic
plants and animals.
b) Discharge of oil and petroleum products into the ocean, can block the
sunlight which is used by aquatic plants for photosynthesis.
c) Many aquatic animals and marine birds ingest small piece of plastic, causes
gastro-intestinal disorder and damage the tissue of eggs.
d) When greenhouse gas like CO2 when dissolve, increase the acidity of sea
water ad affect the aquatic plant and animal.

Control measure for marine pollution

i) Waste water must be treated before dumping.


ii) Reduce the use of single use plastic.
iii) To minimize the greenhouse gases use alternative energy resources.
iv) Chemical fertilizers may be replacing by organic fertilizers.
v) Proper monitoring of sea water.
vi) Various campaigns should be done to prohibit marine pollution.

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