Text of Class Lectures

Topics
Lecture No.
1. Introduction 
1 - 7
        • Industrial Accidents
        • Air Pollutants
        • Sources of Air Pollution
        • Emission Inventory
        • Air Pollution Index
        • Air Pollution in Asia
        • Related Internet Sites
  
2. Natural Cleansing Process in the Atmosphere
8
3. Basic Meteorological Processes
9 - 15
        • General Atmospheric Circulation
        • Atmospheric Thermodynamics
        • Atmospheric Stability
        • Boundary Layer Development
        • Effect of meteorology on plume dispersion
        • Miscellaneous topics
          • Wind velocity
          • Beaufort scale
          • Wind rose
          • Local Climatological data
  
4. Air Quality Regulations
16 - 20
        • Air Quality Regulations in U.S.
        • Air Quality Standards
        • PSD Program
        • NA Area Regulation
        • NESHAP's
        • NSPS's
        • Stack Height Regulations
        • Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
        • International Treaties - ISO 14000
        • Related Internet Sites
  
5. Air Quality Modeling
21 - 30
        • Types of plumes
        • Flow Regimes of a Plume
        • Plume Rise
        • Ambient Air Concentration Modeling
        • Gaussian Dispersion Models
        • Plume Dispersion Parameters
        • Miscellaneous topics
        • Computer Programs
        • Related Internet Sites
  
6. Technology for Air Pollution Control 
31 - 38
 
7. Effects of Air Pollutants 
39 - 41
 
8. Current Issues
42-45
        • Toxic Pollution
        • Greenhouse Effect/Global Warming
        • Ground Level Ozone Pollution
        • Ozone Depletion
        • Acid Rain
        • Noise Pollution
        • Related Internet Sites
  
9. Air Pollution Instrumentation
  
Appendix A: Definitions
  
Appendix B : National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  
Appendix C : List of 189 Hazardous Air Pollutants
  
Appendix D : National Air Pollution Emission Trends
  
Appendix E:  Database Illustrating Properties of 172 Hazardous Air Pollutants

 
 










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