ADVANCED TOPICS IN AIR POLLUTION
- Course
- ENVS611 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN AIR POLLUTION
- Department
- Environmental Sciences - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
Meteorology for modeling and control of air pollution; the physical and thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere, equations of motion, hydrostatic equation, continuity equation, Geostrophic approximation, geopotential height, thermal wind, baroclinic and barotropic atmosphere, atmospheric stability and inversion. Air pollution concentration models; fixed-box models, diffusion models. Primary particulate control. Control of sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides.
ADVANCED TOPICS IN AIR POLLUTION
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Air Pollution |
| Week 2 | Classification of Air pollutants/ Indoor air quality |
| Week 3 | Air pollution Essentials (The earth’s atmosphere, scales of the pollution, sources of air pollution and pollutants) |
| Week 4 | Air pollution meteorology (atmospheric variables, global climate change, acid rain, ozone depletion) |
| Week 5 | Air pollution effects, |
| Week 6 | Air pollution standards, |
| Week 7 | Air Pollution Measurements, emission estimation |
| Week 8 | Midterm (06-17 April 2018) |
| Week 9 | Midterm (06-17 April 2018) |
| Week 10 | Air pollution meteorology (horizontal motion, vertical motion) |
| Week 11 | Transports and dispersion of pollutants (Atmospheric stability, inversion) |
| Week 12 | Acid Rain/ Ozone Depletion |
| Week 13 | Air pollution modelling |
| Week 14 | Air pollution modelling |
| Week 15 | Final Exam |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Noel de Nevers, 2000, Air Pollution Control Engineering, 2nd Ed., McGraw Hill.
- 02 Frederick K. Lutgens, Edward J. Tarbuck, Dennis Tasa, 2012, The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology, Prentice Hall.
- 03 D. Bruce Turner, 1994, Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates: An Introduction to Dispersion Modeling, 2nd Ed.
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