EV 740 - Air Pollution Control

• Understand the basic concepts of air pollution control regulations, including the regulatory emphasis on pollution prevention/solvent substitution strategies
• Develop air emission estimates for a variety of industrial and commercial sources of air pollution
• Develop preliminary design of air pollution control systems based on key operating and performance parameters
• Converse with regulatory personnel on matters of air pollution control including permitting, emission, estimates, compliance determination and compliance monitoring
• Converse with equipment vendors on matters concerning equipment specification and selection
• Understand basic concepts in air dispersion modeling as a tool for regulatory compliance and design

• Basic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry
• Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
• Biology and Microbiology

• Air quality as a natural resource (0.25 class)
• Regulatory air quality protection (0.5 class)
• Air pollutant sources (0.5 class)
• Atmospheric chemistry (0.5 class)
• Air pollutant dispersion modeling (0.5 class)
• Ozone transport (0.25 class)
• Continuous emission monitoring and stack testing (0.5 class)
• Emission estimating (0.5 class)
• Sources and control of particulate emissions (0.5 class)
• Sources and control of hazardous air pollutants (1 class)
• Sources and control of volatile organic compound emissions (1 class)
• Sources and control of gaseous emissions (2 classes)
• Examination (1 class)
• Design project (2 classes)