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ENGINEERING II
CE 464
Prof. Kwabena Biritwum Nyarko
Dr. Eugene Appiah-Effah
CE 464
Introduction
Environmental Engineering is defined as that
branch of engineering that is concerned with
oprotecting the environment from the potentially
deleterious effects of human activity,
oprotecting human populations from the effects of
adverse environmental factors
oimproving environmental quality for human health
and well being
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Introduction
Engineers ideally approach a problem in a
sequence suggested to be rational by the theories
of public decision making:
(1) problem definition,
(2) generation of alternative solutions,
(3) evaluation of alternatives,
(4) implementation of a selected solution, and
(5) review and appropriate revision of the
implemented solution
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Course Content
❑The Environment
❑ Risk Analysis
❑Environmental Pollution
❑Environmental Treatment Technologies
❑Environmental Management
Course Content
❑Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sector
oThe 2030 Development Agenda (Sustainable Development
Goals-SDGs)
oWASH Situation- Global and Ghana
oKey elements to deliver WASH services
❑ WASH sector Institutional Arrangements (Policies, Guides and
regulatory mechanisms)
o Water Policy
o Environmental Sanitation Policy
o CWSA Sector Guidelines
o Water Resources Commission Act
o Etc
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
ENGINEERING II
CE 464
DR. EUGENE APPIAH-EFFAH
DEPT OF CIVIL ENG, KNUST
CE 464
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
The Environment
The environment is defined as one’s surroundings
The environment consist of the atmosphere,
hydrosphere and the lithosphere in which the life
sustaining resources of the earth are contained
Atmosphere: A mixture of gases extending outward
from the surface of the earth
Hydrosphere: Consist of oceans, the lakes, streams
and shallow groundwater bodies that interflow with
the surface water
Lithosphere: Is the soil mantle that wraps the core of
the earth
Environmental problems
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Natural
ecosystems
Contributions to Wetland
climatic change Deforestation drainage
Agricultural
systems
Env impacts
related to food
resources
Over Agriculture
grazing
Land Loss
Soil degr of Traditio Modern
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Forest Nutrien yieldin Fertili
clearin erosi tdeplet variet zer
Pesticides loggin Salinity
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ce Loss of
Pest non- Bio
resist target magnific
ance species ation
Impact of industry, energy and transport
Atmospheric
pollution
Energy
Transport Industry
consumption
Other types of
Marine pollution Acidification
pollution
Impact of concentrations of people
Poaching
killing
of prohibited endangered wildlife for illegal
trade of their products
Climate change
Poverty
Sulphur cycle
Phosphate cycle
Oxygen cycle
Human influence on the carbon cycle
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Human influence on the carbon cycle
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Agriculture
Impacts of enhanced greenhouse effect
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Effects on agriculture
These may be positive or negative depending on the
crop type and region under consideration
Rise in temperature may be quite harmful to crops
especially in tropics
Increase in temperature and humidity will increase pest
growth
Human influence on the nitrogen cycle
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Human influence on the nitrogen cycle
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Transport
Soil erosion
Water logging
Salinization of soil
Desertification
Water pollution and eutrophication: caused by
agriculture, domestic and industrial sewage output
from urban concentrations of people
Waste generation and associated solid waste disposal
Changes in social and cultural patterns
Environmental issues arising from tourism
Environmental Problems in Ghana
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Biodiversity
Forest resources
Fresh water
Land resources
Land degradation
Coastal erosion
Water pollution
Deforestation
Poor waste management
Risk from chemical use
Indoor air pollution
Outdoor air pollution
Desertification
Large scale developments
Exercise (Groupwork)
Look around you and identify environmental
problems existing in your locality (Kumasi)
Work in groups of no more than 5 students
Select a community
Visit the community
Identify environmental issues in the community
Use interviews, observations, etc
Exercise (Group work)
Prepare power point presentations to cover the
following (each student to speak on at least one slide)
Description of community, location, map, demarcate area
studied on map
Methods used in data collection
Conclusions
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
By
• Traffic
• Industrial equipment
• Construction activities
• Sporting and crowd activities
• Low-flying aircraft
Effect of Noise
• Soil erosion
• Soil contaminants
• Fertilizers and pesticides
• Excess use of irrigation water
Effects of Soil Pollution
• Food shortage
• Desertification
• Decrease in the extent of agricultural land
• Top soil erosion
• Excess use of irrigation leads to waterlogging
and soil salinization.
• Fertilizer run off leads to the eutrophication of
waterways.
Control measures
• Proper soil conservation measures to minimize the
loss of top soil
• INM, IPM, using bio pesticides and integrated
environment friendly agriculture to reduce pesticides
or fertilizers.
• Appropriate water management practices in
agriculture
• Keeping the soil surface covered with crop residues
or crop cover
• Planting trees as a part of afforestation/ shelter
belts/wind breakers
• Cleaning up of polluted soil
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
• The combined effects of population explosion and
changing modern living standards have had a
cumulative effect in the generation of a large amount
of various types of wastes.
• Increase in population
• Affluence
• Technology
Effects of Solid Waste
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RISK AND HAZARD
4 Environmental risk analysis
Human health risk
Industrial accidents and system failures
Intended learning outcomes
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Voluntary risks
driving cars,
flying in aeroplanes,
drinking alcohol,
smoking cigarettes, etc
Involuntary risks
living in a dirty urban environment which you can do little
about,
air quality problems,
contaminants in the environment, etc
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This includes:
the nature of the harm that may result from the
hazard,
the severity of that harm and
the likelihood of this occurring
Risk assessment
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𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑘 =
𝐷0
Example
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10/10000
𝑅𝑖𝑠𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑘𝑟𝑦𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑠 = = 10
2/20000
Kryptonosis – 10
Other – 6
=9.7
Characteristics of sources
The chemical's release potential
Environmental statutes
Public acceptance
General approaches for managing
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risks
Risk avoidance
Select
alternative actions
Abandon planned actions
Risk reduction
Change actions to reduce risk
Add actions to reduce risk
Contingency planning
Plan to cope with risk
Options for risk reduction
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❖Waste Minimization
❖Environmental Modelling
Waste Minimization
❖Waste minimization approach has been seen as
the only sustainable way of dealing with our waste
problems
❖This means that within any waste management
system, the primary concern should be to reduce
the quantities of waste material produced
❖This avoids the necessity to treat and dispose of
such materials
❖Waste minimization=Clean or Cleaner
Technology, Cleaner Production= Waste
Reduction= Pollution Prevention etc
Waste Minimization
Why Waste Minimization
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LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
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Background
Possible uses:
- Decision support during
design
- Certification
- Part of an EIA (impact
assessment)
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
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❖LCA addresses the environmental aspects and
potential environmental impacts throughout a
product's life cycle from
▪ raw material acquisition
▪ through production
▪ use
▪ end-of-life treatment
▪ recycling and
▪ final disposal
❖There is a standardized tool for conducting an LCA:
ISO 14040-14043 is the LCA standard
Phases of LCA
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Phases of LCA
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▪ But if
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Cleaner production
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Definition of EIA
Environmental
✓ Impact Assessment
Is A formal process for
identifying:
Environment is
• likely effects of activities or broadly interpreted:
projects on the physical, biological,
ENVIRONMENT, and on and social.
human health and welfare.
In EIA, the term
• means and measures to “impacts” is used
mitigate & monitor these instead of “effects
impacts of activities.”
What is an
impact?
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What is an impact?
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The baseline situation
Water Quantity, quality, reliability,
In characterizing the accessibility
baseline situation,
Soils Erosion, crop productivity,
many environmental fallow periods, salinity,
components MAY be nutrient concentrations
of interest Fauna Populations, habitat
The components of
Env Health Disease vectors, pathogens
interest are those that
are likely to be affected
Flora Composition and density of
by your activity—or natural vegetation,
upon which your productivity, key species
activity depends for its
success Special Key species
ecosystems
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The baseline situation
Water table
not simply a “snapshot.”
Describing the baseline
situation requires describing
both the normal variability in
environmental components &
current trends in these time
components. This chart of
groundwater levels
shows both variability
and a trend over time.
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Types of impacts & their attributes
Direct & indirect
The EIA process is impacts
concerned with
Short-term & long-
all types of impacts and term impacts
may describe them in a
Adverse & beneficial
number of ways
impacts
Cumulative impacts
Intensity
Direction
Spatial extent
Duration
But all impacts are
Frequency
Reversibility NOT treated
Probability equally.
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Specifically,
! It is ESSENTIAL in EIA
to focus on the most
significant impacts.
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What is an activity?
We are discussing the impacts of activities.
What are activities?
✓ An activity is:
a desired
accomplishment or
output Accomplishing an activity
requires a set of actions
E.g.: a road, seedling
production, or river ACTIVITY: ACTIONS:
diversion to irrigate market access Survey, grading, culvert
road construction, compaction,
land rehabilitation etc. . .
•Understand • Scope
proposed activities • Evaluate baseline situation
• Identify & choose alternatives
•Screen • Identify and characterize potential
•Conduct preliminary impacts of proposed activity and
assessment (if each alternative
needed) • Develop mitigation and monitoring
• Communicate and document
Our focus!
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Phase 1 of the EIA Process
Understand Screen the Conduct a
Phase I Phase II
proposed activity Preliminary
activity Assessment
Based on the ACTIVITY IS SIGNIFICANT BEGIN
Why is the nature of the OF MODERATE A rapid, ADVERSE FULL
activity being activity what OR UNKNOWN simplified EIA IMPACTS EIA
proposed? level of RISK study using POSSIBLE STUDY
environmental simple tools SIGNIFICANT
What is being review is (e.g. the ADVERSE
proposed? indicated? USAID IEE) IMPACTS
VERY UNLIKELY
ACTIVITY IS LOW
RISK (Of its nature, STOP
very unlikely to have the EIA
significant adverse process
impacts)
ACTIVITY IS
HIGH RISK (Of its
nature, likely to have
significant adverse
impacts)
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Phase 1 of the EIA process:
Understand the proposed activity
Understand ALL EIA processes begin with
the proposed
activities understanding WHAT is being proposed,
Why is the and WHY.
activity being The question
proposed? “WHY IS THE ACTIVITY BEING PROPOSED?
What is being Is answered with the development objective (D.O.).
proposed?
✓
“building a road” Not a D.O.!
“increasing access
Is a D.O.
to markets”
“If we don’t
understand
We must understand the
it, we can’t Development Objective to identify
assess it!” environmentally sound alternatives
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Phase 1 of the EIA process:
Understand the proposed activity
Understand Once we understand the development
the proposed
activities
objective, we must fully understand
WHAT is being proposed.
Why is the
activity being This includes associated actions!
proposed? PRIMARY ACTIVITY:
What is being construction of diversion dam &
proposed? irrigation canal
ASSOCIATED ACTIONS:
• Survey
“Oops. I
• negotiate land tenure
forgot • construct borrow pit
about the • establish construction camp
borrow pit.” • construct temporary
diversion structure
• dispose of soil, debris
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Phase 1 of the EIA process:
Screen the activity
Screen each
activity
SCREENING is the process of asking
Based on the
nature of the
a very basic set of questions about
activity, what the nature of activity.
level of These questions:
environmental • do NOT require analysis.
analysis is
• do NOT require detailed knowledge
indicated?
about the proposed sites, techniques or
methods
Example screening questions:
Does the activity involve:
• Large-scale irrigation?
• Introduction of non-native
crop or agroforestry species?
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Phase 1 of the EIA process:
Screen the activity
Screen each
activity
screening classifies the activity into
Based on the
nature of the
a RISK CATEGORY:
activity, what VERY LOW RISK EIA process ends
level of
environmental VERY HIGH RISK Do full EIA study
analysis is
indicated? MODERATE OR Do preliminary
UNKNOWN RISK assessment
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Phase 1 of the EIA process:
Screen the activity
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Phase 1 of the EIA process:
The Preliminary Assessment
Conduct a
Preliminary
Assessment The purpose of a preliminary
A rapid, assessment is to provide
simplified EIA documentation and analysis that:
study using
• Allows the preparer to
simple tools
(e.g. the determine whether or not
USAID IEE) significant adverse impacts are
likely
• Allows the reviewer to agree or
!
disagree with the preparer’s
Screening determinations
determines whether • Sets out mitigation and
the preliminary monitoring for adverse impacts
assessment is
necessary
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Phase 1 of the EIA process:
The Preliminary Assessment
Typical Preliminary
Assessment outline
Mitigation is. . .
✓ The implementation of
measures designed to
reduce the undesirable
effects of a proposed
action on the
environment
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To arrive at findings:
Identify, Predict and Judge
Arriving at the FINDINGS in a preliminary
assessment requires 3 steps:
1
Identify potential Many resources describe the potential
impacts impacts of typical small-scale activities.
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! We only proceed to
Phase II of the EIA process
if
Phase I indicates that
a FULL EIA STUDY
is required
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Phase 2 of the EIA process:
The Full EIA study
A formal scoping process
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Phase 2 of the EIA process:
The Full EIA study
✓ In summary,
The full EIA study is a far
more significant effort than
the preliminary assessment.
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Who is involved in EIA?
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THE EIA PROCESS
❖ Establish goals
❖ Review other EIA systems
❖ Identify obligations under treaties learn from the
experience of others incorporate features to move
❖ Towards sustainability
❖ Identify procedures and standards develop trial guidelines
❖ Produce legislation
❖ Incorporate processes for monitoring and review
Case Study- Wastewater Treatment Project
❖Flora
❖Fauna
o Attraction of pests-insects, rodents etc
❖Water
o Improvement in quality of water discharged into
outfall area
o Contamination be uncontrolled surface runoff
(water pollution if not properly treated)
o Pathogens released with water
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Environmental effects
❖ Air
o Odour
o Noise of machinery and transportation trucks
❖ Climate
o Odour dispersal/concentrations
❖ The landscape
o Perimeter fences
o Access roads, entrances
o Exposed waste
o Site structures
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Environmental effects
❖Material assets
o Diminution of amenities for residential and
leisure land uses
❖Cultural heritage
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Possible mitigation options
❖Site alternatives
❖Site layout to minimize proximity to sensitive
receptors
❖Landscaping
❖Monitoring
❖High standards of site management including
control of waste acceptance
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ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGIES
❖Water Treatment
❖Wastewater Treatment
▪ Biological treatment
▪ Thermal treatment
▪ Landfilling
Biological Treatment
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Composting
The general objectives of composting are:
❖To transform the biodegradable organic materials
into a biologically stable material,
❖To destroy pathogens, insect eggs, and other
unwanted organisms and weed seeds that may be
present in MSW;
❖To retain the maximum nutrient (nitrogen,
phosphorous, and potassium) content; and
❖To produce a product that can be used to support
plant growth and as a soil conditioner.
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Composting Process
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Process requirements
❖Temperature
❖Moisture content
❖Oxygen
❖C/N ratio
❖pH
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Types of composting
Windrow Composting
❖Simple and versatile method
where organic matter is built
into large piles and physically
turned on a regular basis
❖Size, shape, and spacing of
the windrow depends on the
equipment used for turning
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Anaerobic digestion
❖An Anaerobic Digestion (AD) process is the
breaking down of organic matter by bacterial action
in the absence of oxygen to produce biogas (a
mixture of methane and carbon dioxide) which can
be used for energy generation.
❖Benefits of using AD technology in solid waste
management include:
❖energy production (biogas production),
❖waste treatment (waste volume reduction)
❖environmental benefits (reduce effects on
climate change).
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Thermal Treatment-Combustion or
Incineration
❖Can be carried out with or without oxygen
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Landfilling
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Reactions in Landfill
❖ Biological process: Biological decay of organic materials,
either aerobic or anaerobic, with the evolution of gases and
liquids.
❖ Chemical oxidation of waste materials. Dissolving and
leaching of organic and inorganic materials by water from
external sources (surface drainage, rainfall, groundwater)
and leachate moving through the fill.
❖ Physical processes within landfill,
▪ Escape of gases from the fill (Ammonia, CO2, CO, CH4)
▪ Movement of dissolved materials and liquids (leachate)
caused by differential heads, concentration gradients and
osmosis.
▪ Uneven settlement caused by consolidation of material
into voids.
Environment Quality Control
Pollutant or nuisance Significance Control measure
of control
❑Organic and Chemical Water pollution Treatment plant, stop
pollution of surface the use of water source
water by leachate
V1 = d[(R/w)x ec + Cv]
Volume Of Sanitary Landfill
V1: required landfill volume per one person per year
(m3/capita.year)
R: Specific solid waste production rate
(kg/capita.day)
W: Volumetric weight of solid waste after
compaction (kg/m3)
Cv: specific required volume for isolation layer at the
bottom, covering layers between solid waste beds
and final upper covering layer (m3/capita.day)
d: number of days in one year (day/year)
ec: efficiency of collection from SW (%)
Example
❖Aeration
❖Solids Separation
❖Coagulation
❖Filtration
❖Disinfection
❖Softening
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Wastewater Treatment
❖Physical Treatment
▪ Screening (Coarse/Fine/Grit)
❖Secondary treatment
▪ Biological treatment
• Activated sludge/Trickling filters/Aerated Lagoons
❖Nutrient Removal
❖Tertiary treatment
▪ Sand filters
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Faecal Sludge Treatment
❖Settling-thickening tanks
❖Waste Stabilisation Pond
❖Composting/ Co-composting
❖Anaerobic Digestion
❖Drying beds
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Hazardous Waste Treatment
❖Incineration
❖Wet oxidation (Organic and inorganic
materials dissolved in water are exposed to a
gaseous source o\f oxygen)
❖Fluidized bed combustion
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