Air Quality and Pollution Control Engineering

• Sources and classification of atmospheric pollutants
• indoor and outdoor air pollutants
• health and ecological impacts
• meteorology: influence of solar radiation and wind fields
• lapse rate and stability conditions
• characteristics of stack plumes
• Dispersion and deposition modeling of atmospheric pollutants: Eddy and Gaussian diffusion models, Puff models
• effective stack heights and spatial concentration distributions
• Measurement techniques
• Characteristics of various air pollutant particulates
• health and nuisance/aesthetic considerations (PM2.5 and PM10) and gaseous pollutants (CO, SOx, NOx, etc.)
• their behaviour in the atmosphere, monitoring
• Control of particulates: collection mechanisms and efficiencies
• Control of gases and vapours: adsorption, absorption, combustion, incineration
• Control of sulphur oxides and oxides of nitrogen, desulphurisation, kinetics of NOx formation
• Photochemical reactions, role of nitrogen and hydrocarbons in photochemical reactions, air toxics, mobile sources of air pollutants, noxious pollutants, and odour control
• Emissions trading

Suggested Reading Materials

Air Quality Control Handbook
Alley, E.R, Stevens, L.B., and Cleland, W. L. McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Air Pollution Engineering Manual
Buonicore, A.J. (ed) and W.T. Davis (ed). Air & Waste Management Association. Wiley-Interscience, 1992.