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Unit 1 Introduction

This document provides an overview of an environmental technology module that combines occupational health and safety. It includes phase tests, practical and theory coursework, class tests, and an examination. The first chapter introduces an overview of three parts: water treatment to remove pollutants, air treatment to remove pollutants, and solid waste management. It discusses natural bodies of water, wastewater in urban areas, streams, industrial wastes, and air pollution.

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Unit 1 Introduction

This document provides an overview of an environmental technology module that combines occupational health and safety. It includes phase tests, practical and theory coursework, class tests, and an examination. The first chapter introduces an overview of three parts: water treatment to remove pollutants, air treatment to remove pollutants, and solid waste management. It discusses natural bodies of water, wastewater in urban areas, streams, industrial wastes, and air pollution.

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ENVIRONMENTAL

TECHNOLOGY
(EVT)
MODULE REQUIREMENT
• COMBINED WITH OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
SAFETY (OHS)
• PHASE TEST,
• PRACTICAL COURSEWORK
• THEORY COURSEWORK - PRESENTATION
• CLASS TESTS
• EXAMINATION
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
OVERVIEW
Part One : Water & Its
Treatment to Remove
Pollutants.
Part Two : Air & Its Treatment
to Remove Pollutants.
Part Three : Management of
Solid Waste.
INTRODUCTION - WATER

• Required to sustain life.


• Has long been suspected of being
the source of many illnesses of
man.
• Expected to be free of color,
turbidity, taste, odor, and harmful
metal ions.
• Expected to be low in hardness ,
total solids, non-corrosive and no
NATURAL BODIES OF WATER
• Have the ability to oxidize
organic matter.
• Certain levels of dissolved
oxygen must be maintained at all
times if certain forms of aquatic
life are to be preserved.
WASTEWATER – URBAN AREA
• Provide drainage or sewer systems.
• Development of purification or
treatment facilities .
STREAMS
4 categories:

a) those to be used for the


transportation of wastes without
regard to aquatic growths but
maintained to avoid the
development of nuisance
conditions,
b) those in which the pollution load
will be restricted to allow fish to
flourish.
STREAMS

c) those to be used for recreational


purposes,
d) those that are used for water
supplies.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
• Most challenging field in environmental
engineering,
• Great variety of wastes produced from
established industries and
• Introduction of wastes from new
processes.
• Knowledge of chemistry is essential to
a solution of most of the problems.
AIR POLLUTION
• Products of combustion from heating
plants, incinerators, and automobiles,
plus gases, fumes, and smokes arising
from industrial processes.
• Radioactive materials that gained
entrance to the atmosphere through
nuclear explosions.

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