Ch.

E-406 Environmental
Engineering

Lecture # 1

Chemical Engineering Department

UET Lahore
 Course Description
 Introduction to ecology of
environment; Impact of
technology on ecology of
system; The effects of
industrial pollutants on
human environments;
Environmental impact
assessment & sustainable
development; Air pollution
and its control; Water
pollution and its control;
Industrial waste water and
its control; Industrial noise
pollution and its control;
Future requirements of
process industries and
developments under the
constraints of diminishing
 Objective
 The environment encompasses
the whole of life on
earth and the complex
interactions that link
the living world with the
physical world. In a
general sense, this covers
everything contained
within the air, land and
water. Sudden and dramatic
natural changes to the
environment have occurred,
and continue to occur,
which have the potential
to upset the whole
balance of the Earth's
ecosystem.
 
 To increase
individual’s
awareness level by
Objective

providing
information that
will encourage to
change the
behavior and
decrease the
chance for an
unpleasant event. 
 Reduce injuries and
illnesses and in
maintaining a safe
working
environment.
  Provide us with a
structured system
for identifying
Objective

hazards, assessing
risks associated
with those hazards,
putting in place
measures to control
the unacceptable
risks and to review
the control
measures to ensure
they are effective
and have not
introduced new
hazards.
 What is Environment?

 The environment
encompasses the
whole of life on
earth and the
complex
interactions
that link the
living world
with the
physical world

 Environmental Engineering

 Environmental
engineering is the
application of
science and
engineering
principles to
improve the
environment (air,
water, and/or land
resources), to
provide healthy
water, air, and land
for human habitation
and for other
organisms, and to
remediate polluted
 Science & Engineering

 Science … improve
our understanding
of natural
processes
 Engineering … use
this
understanding to
develop and apply
technologies that
will maintain or
improve
environmental
 What is Ecosystem?

üPOPULATION
A population is
one species
living in a
specific area.
 For example, all
foxes living in
an area form a
population.

ü COMMUNITY
 A community is formed
from all living
populations found
in an area.
 All the foxes,
dandelions,
grasshoppers,
snakes, hawks, deer,
and skunks living
in one area each
form their
individual
populations, but
together make up a
community
 ECOSYSTEM
 An ecosystem is
formed by the
interactions
between all
living and non-
living things

 What is Ecology?

 Ecology is how
living and non-
living things
affect each
other in their
environment.

Non-living parts of your community

 Buildings
 Roads
 Bodies of water
 Automobiles
 Traffic lights

 Pollution

 The introduction
of substances or
energy into the
environment, by
people, liable
to cause harm to
living creatures
or ecological
systems.

 How did pollution
begin?
1. More sophisticated
lifestyles.
2. Growing needs of
people.
3. Accelerated rates of
human and economic
activities.

 Contd…

 Waste becomes
pollution if
the level
discharged
exceeds the
capacity of the
environment to
absorb it
without adverse
effect.

 The types of
pollution that
we are going to
look at:
 Air Pollution
 Water Pollution
 Land Pollution
 Noise pollution
 Thermal pollution
 Radiation
pollution

 Air Pollution

 Air pollution is
the introduction
of chemicals,
particulate
matter, or
biological
materials that
cause harm or
discomfort to
humans or other
living organisms,
or cause damage
to the natural
environment or
built
environment, into
 Water Pollution

 Water pollution
is the
contamination
of water bodies
( e . g. lakes,
rivers, oceans
and
groundwater).

 Land Pollution

 Land pollution is
the degradation
of Earth's land
surfaces often
caused by human
activities and
their misuse of
land resources.
 Noise Pollution

 Noise pollution
is excessive,
displeasing
human, animal or
machine-created
environmental
noise that
disrupts the
activity or
balance of
human or animal
life.