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CE 476/576 Air
Pollution Control (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 (offered every spring).
Available via Engineering Online. 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
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CE/NE 772
Environmental Exposure and Risk Analysis (offered in spring of even numbered
years) 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. |