This course is about ; Primary and secondary pollutants; emissions, transport, dispersion, receptors; air pollution effects; air quality standards; industrial smog and photochemical smog; chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone depletion; air pollution measurements, isokinetic sampling, emission factors; atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric stability, temperature inversions, fumigations, stagnations; fundamentals of air pollution dispersion models, Gaussian plume dispersion model; global warming; acid precipitation.
General ideas in air pollution control. The nature of particulate pollutants. Control of particulates; Gravity Settlers, Cyclones, Electrostatic Precipitators, Surface Filters, Depth Filters, Scrubbers. Control of sulfur oxides; Limestone Wet Scrubbers, clean coal technologies.
- Enseignant: Sedef Cakir