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ESM 214 Environmental Pollution and Control

ND2 levelMedical & Health Sciences31 topics

ESM 214 covers 31 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Environmental pollution concepts
  2. Sources and classes of pollutants
  3. Causes, effects and control of pollution
  4. Pollution prevention and control roles
  5. Need for pollution control
  6. Types of environmental pollution
  7. Petroleum exploration to refining processes
  8. Environmental concerns in oil and gas operations
  9. Industrial mitigation and wastewater treatment
  10. Mining and metal extraction processes
  11. Environmental issues in mining
  12. Mining waste containment and site reclamation
  13. Agricultural pollution and environmental concerns
  14. Polluted site visits
  15. Raw oil and gas constituents
  16. Oil and gas exploration steps in Nigeria
  17. Oil exploration and drilling
  18. Petroleum phase production
  19. Risk assessment concepts and terminology
  20. Steps in risk assessment
  21. Hazard identification
  22. Process safety management
  23. Exposure pathways and exposure calculation
  24. Dose-response assessment
  25. Basic toxicology
  26. Basic epidemiology
  27. Transport and fate of contaminants
  28. Risk estimation
  29. Risk management process
  30. Risk assessment phases
  31. Cost-benefit analysis

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Environmental pollution concepts

Environmental pollution concepts cover the definition of pollution, the various types of pollutants, sources (point and non‑point), and the pathways through which pollutants reach ecosystems and human populations. Mastering these ideas is essential for the exam because questions often ask you to classify pollutants, identify sources, or explain how pollution affects health and the environment.

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