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CE
476/576 Air Pollution Control (next offered in Fall 2008, offered
every fall) Course Objectives
The student completing this course will be able to: (1) identify, classify, and prioritize
major emission sources; (2) categorize and describe major types of
regulations; (3) apply mass balance, energy balance, chemical equilibrium,
and chemical kinetic concepts to estimate pollutant formation rates for a
variety of major stationary and mobile sources; and (4) identify, analyze,
design, and evaluate air pollution prevention and control strategies. Course Description
Fundamentals of air pollutant formation and control from
stationary and mobile emission sources.
Chemical kinetics, mass and heat transfer, and thermodynamics
affecting gaseous and particle pollutant formation in combustion systems and
chemical processes. Study of sulfur
dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds,
hydrocarbons, and air toxics formation and control. Principles of conventional and advanced
flue gas desulfurization, thermal and fuel NOx control, and particle/air toxics emission
control will be among the emission topics to be explored. Prerequisites
This course is multi-disciplinary and can accommodate
students with diverse engineering backgrounds. For undergraduate students, the following prerequisites
apply: Environmental
Engineering Majors: Prerequisites — Introduction to
Environmental Engineering (CE 373), Thermodynamics (MAE 301 or ChE 315), and Civil Engineering Systems (CE 375), Corequisites — Statistics (ST 370) Chemical
Engineering Majors. Prerequisites —Chemical Engineering
Design I (ChE 450). All other
majors. Please discuss with the instructor. For graduate students in CE 576, there are no formal
prerequisites or corequisites. Students with
background in thermodynamics, heat transfer, chemistry, and related areas
will be prepared for this course.
Please contact the instructor with any questions. |
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CE/MEA
479/579 Air Quality (Spring 2008, offered every fall) Course Objectives
Students completing this course will be able to: (1) identify major types of air quality
problems based upon types of pollutants, chemical transformations, and
temporal and spatial scales; (2) apply mass and energy balance, chemical
equilibrium, and chemical kinetic concepts to estimating pollutant emission
rates; (3) apply similar concepts to estimating the formation of secondary
pollutants (e.g., ozone); (4) classify, compare, and evaluate alternative air
quality models; (5) develop and apply simplified air quality models for both
non-reactive and reactive pollutants; and (6) identify and evaluate control
strategies for mitigating atmospheric air pollution problems. Course Description
The topics covered in this course include air quality
management issues, sources of air pollutants, atmospheric physics and
chemistry and their relationship to pollutant transport and transformations,
air quality meteorology, and air pollutant dispersion modeling. Students will learn about the major types
of regulations that motivate the need to estimate and measure atmospheric air
quality, the major types of pollutants that are regulated by such air quality
standards (e.g., sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, carbon
monoxide, tropospheric ozone, and lead), the major
emission sources for such pollutants, the role of anthropogenic and biogenic
sources in global chemical cycles, gas and aqueous-phase chemistry in the
atmosphere, basic principles of meteorology as applied to air quality
(including energy balance, winds, temperature, equations of motion, and
atmospheric diffusion), and the fundamentals and practical aspects of commonly
used air quality models. Prerequisites
For the undergraduate sections, the prerequisites are: CE
382 and CE 373; or MEA 422; or CHE 311, and the co-requisites are: ST 370 or
ST 301 or ST 380. For students in the
graduate section, it is assumed that you have had a college-level chemistry
course and that you are familiar with chemical equilibrium and chemical
kinetics. Coursework in thermodynamics
is also helpful, but not required. |
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CE/NE
772 Environmental Exposure and Risk Analysis (Spring 2008, every
other year) Available on-campus and via Engineering
Online distance education program. Objectives: Upon completing this course, students will be able
to: (1) describe the framework of risk analysis; (2) quantify human exposures to hazardous substances in
the environment; (3) calculate consequences and probabilities of
adverse human health outcomes; (4) apply risk assessment concepts and tools to
selected case problems of risk analysis; (5) identify and evaluate the types of data and
models available for estimating the health consequences of various
environmental exposures; (6) quantify variability and uncertainty in
exposure and risk assessment; and (7) evaluate and critique
current approaches to risk analysis and risk management. Course description: This
course will focus on general risk analysis framework, study design aspects
for exposure assessment, and quantitative methods for estimating the
probability and consequences of adverse outcomes, primarily with respect to
human health endpoints associated with environmental contamination. Emphasis
will be given to the general risk analysis framework, exposure assessment,
and probabilistic analysis of both variability and uncertainty. The major
topics of the course include: (1) an introduction and overview of "base
rate" statistics regarding risks to humans; (2) data and models for
exposure assessment; (3) an overview of approaches to health risk assessment,
including characterization of dose-response relationships; (4) quantitative
approaches to characterizing variability and uncertainty in the inputs to
exposure and risk models; (5) quantitative methods for propagating variability
and uncertainty through models and interpretation of results; and (6) issues
in risk management. Prerequisites This
course requires graduate student standing with basic understanding of
statistical concepts. Therefore, a
prerequisite of ST 511 or 515 or equivalent is required. If you have any questions regarding your
qualifications for this course, please contact either of the instructors. NOTE: This
course is team-taught by Dr. Frey of Civil, Construction, and Environmental
Engineering and by Dr. Yim of Nuclear
Engineering. |