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Introduction To Air Pollution

This document provides information about an air pollution course offered at Iowa State University in Spring 2002. The course is titled CE/AE 524 Air Pollution and will be taught jointly by Dr. van Leeuwen and Dr. Hallmark on Mondays and Thursdays from 1:30-3pm in room 316 Town Engineering. The course will cover topics such as air quality legislation, sources of air pollutants, global warming, ozone formation, air pollution control measures, noise pollution, and modeling of air pollution from various sources. Required textbooks and supplemental materials are also listed. The course will be divided into modules covering these topics from January through April.

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Introduction To Air Pollution

This document provides information about an air pollution course offered at Iowa State University in Spring 2002. The course is titled CE/AE 524 Air Pollution and will be taught jointly by Dr. van Leeuwen and Dr. Hallmark on Mondays and Thursdays from 1:30-3pm in room 316 Town Engineering. The course will cover topics such as air quality legislation, sources of air pollutants, global warming, ozone formation, air pollution control measures, noise pollution, and modeling of air pollution from various sources. Required textbooks and supplemental materials are also listed. The course will be divided into modules covering these topics from January through April.

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Welcome to

AIR

CE/AE/EnSci 524

Air Pollution CE/AE


524

An introduction

By J. (Hans) van Leeuwen

Instructors
Class Meeting Time: Mon and Thu 1:30-3pm, 316 Town
Instructors

Dr. van Leeuwen


476 Town Engineering
[email protected]
Dr. Koziel
3103 NSRIC
[email protected]
Dr. Hallmark
402 Town Engineering
[email protected]

Source material
Required handbook: Wark, K, Warner, CF and Davis, WT
(1998) Air Pollution its origin and control. AddisonWesley ISBN 0-673-99416-3
Other material prescribed:
Masters, GM (1998) Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science,
3rd Ed. Prentice Hall, ISBN 0 13 155384 4
Chapter 8 Global Warming
Other material recommended:
Davis, ML and Masten, SJ (2004) Principles of Environmental Engineering
and Science, 3rd Ed. McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-119449-5
Chapter 15 Noise Pollution
The relevant chapters from these two sources will be made available for copying by students.

Module A
Week of

Mon 1:30-3

Thu 1:30-3

Text
(Day1/Day2)

Instructor
(Day1/Day2)

Jan 10

Introduction

Sources and
effects of air
pollutants
Meteorology

Ch 1,

Van Leeuwen
Koziel

Jan 17
Jan 24
Jan 31

Federal
Legislation
Odor
Dispersion

Noise Pollution
Dispersion

Wark et al.

Chapter 2 & 3

Koziel
Van Leeuwen

Wark et al.
Ch 15 Davis & M Koziel/van L

Chapter 4,

Hallmark

Wark et al.

Feb 7

Particulates

Global Warming

Chapter 8,
Masters

Feb 14

Exam A

Van Leeuwen

Module B
Week of

Mon 1:30-3

Feb 7

Thu 1:30-3

Text

Global Warming

Ch 8, Masters

Van Leeuwen

Ch 8, Masters

Van Leeuwen
Van Leeuwen
Koziel

Exam A

Instructor

Feb 14

Global Warming

Feb 21

Photochemical
Reactions

Volatile organic
compounds

Notes

Feb 28

Flue gas
treatment

Air sampling and


analysis

Chapter 5/6
Wark/ Notes

Van Leeuwen
Koziel

Mar 7

Air sampling and Indoor air quality


analysis
CO generation

Notes

Koziel
Van Leeuwen

Mar 14

Spring Break

Mar 21

Indoor air quality

Notes

Koziel

Exam B

Ch 8 + Wark

Modules
D and E
March-April Aerial

Module E

Notes

Koziel

Hallmark

Emissions
from
Agriculture
April

Mobile Sources

Not on offer in 2011

Notes

April

Industrial Air
Pollution
Control
Term papers

Module D

Chapters 6/7, Van


Wark
Leeuwen

April 19
April 26
May 3

Students
present
Final Exam Week (if needed)

Aggravated air pollution - industry

Aggravated air pollution industry II

Transportation related causes of air pollution

SOx and NOx pollution

Smog over Los Angeles

Smog over the Sea of Japan

Aerial spraying

Natural sources

Silent polluters

Climate change

KABUL

Overindulgence

Overindulgence

Under indulgence?

Passenger car
emissions ratings

HC CO NOx
HC CO NOx

Transitional Low-Emission
Vehicle(TLEV)

50% NR

NR

Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV)

70% NR

50%

Ultra-Low-Emission Vehicle
(ULEV)

85% 50% 50%

Super-Ultra-Low-Emission
Vehicle (SULEV)

96% 70% 95%

Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEV)

100% 100% 100%

MAKE DO WITH
LESS

MAKE DO WITH
LESS

http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/ccbg/zev.htm
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/ccbg/2002pc.htm

Super Ultra Low-Emission


Vehicles (SULEV's)
Honda

Accord
Civic GX
Insight DX

gas
CNG
gas/IMA

Nissan
Toyota

Sentra CA

gas

Prius

gas/EA

AIR POLLUTION
REDUCTION FROM
TOYOTA PRIUS TO
HOMEMADE
ELECTRIC BIKE

Under indulgence?

Indoor air pollution some of the highest levels

Origin of the course


AIR POLLUTION CE524X
New course to be offered in Spring 2002
Jointly by Environmental and Transportation Engineering

Dr J(Hans) van Leeuwen and Dr Shauna Hallmark


Tel 294 5251; [email protected] 294 5249; [email protected]
Department of Civil and Construction Engineering

382 Town Engineering Building

Please register as soon as possible as enrollment is limited


o Air quality legislation. Sources of pollutants. Physics and chemistry of air
pollution.
o Global warming - thermodynamics, heat balances, meteorological and
geographic aspects, greenhouse effects and contribution of various gases.
o Ozone formation in the atmosphere and stratosphere.
Ozone destruction in the stratosphere, halons and freons.
o Air pollution control measures - filters, electrostatic precipitators, settling
chambers, catalytic converters, scrubbing towers and their design, deep-sea
disposal of CO2.
o Measurement and energy equivalents of sound, noise abatement.
o Modeling air pollution for point sources. Regional air pollution modeling.
o Modeling transportation sources. Abatement of transportation related
emissions.

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