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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

COURSE CONTENT ` UNIT-I INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND ENERGY     9 Hrs Definition, scope and importance – Need for public awareness – Forest resources: Use and over-exploitation, deforestation, case studies. Timber extraction, mining, dams and their effects on forests and tribal people – Water resources: Use and over-utilization of surface and ground water, floods, drought, conflicts over water, dams-benefits and problems – Mineral resources: Use and exploitation, environmental effects of extracting and using mineral resources, case studies – Food resources: World food problems, changes caused by agriculture and overgrazing, effects of modern agriculture, fertilizer-pesticide problems, water logging, salinity, case studies – Energy resources: Growing energy needs, renewable and non-renewable energy sources, use of alternate energy sources. Case studies – Land resources: Land as a resource, land degradation,

Ten differences between chemistry and chemical engineering

periodic table 1. Recognition The most apparent difference between chemists and chemical engineers to me is recognition. The public at large understand what a chemist does (because they studied chemistry in school), but there is a lack of recognition of what chemical engineering is . Chemical engineering emerged in its own right the late 1800s with  George E Davis  coining the term ‘chemical engineering’. Increasing understanding of the importance of chemical engineering after World War I led to  IChemE  being established in 1922. Add caption