Engineering

Appropriate for seniors and graduate students in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Engineering. The objectives of this textbook are to (1) provide a thorough understanding of natural and anthropogenic sources of air pollution and (2) introduce ways that pollution can be prevented or minimized by the application of pollution control practices. Control practices are described by mass and energy balances that relate removal efficiency to process input parameters. Presented in this way, future engineers can alter the design and operation of industrial processes to minimize the emission of pollutants rather than focusing solely on the capture of pollutants after they are generated.

• Emphasizes that mathematical models must reflect the underlying physical and chemical processes that govern the production and removal of the pollutants. Pg.___

• Presents concepts in an interdisciplinary and rigorous manner. Pg.___

• Organizes coverage into three major sections:

  • Section I—Setting the Stage (risks, ecology, energy consumption and exponential growth). Pg.___

  • Section II—Basics and Constraints (legislation & regulations, health, aesthetics, pollutant formation/fate cycles, anthropogenic and natural sources). Pg.___

  • Section III—Engineering (combustion systems, emission rates, atmospheric dispersion, control of gases, vapors and particles, engineering economics). Pg.___

• Reinforces important concepts with illustrative examples—many involving, but not dependent on, MathCAD mathematical software—and problems requiring the application of material presented in each chapter. Pg.___

• Suitable for students from a wide range of engineering and science disciplines, allowing readers to draw upon material they have learned in their separate studies and encounter new material to establish the basic level of competence needed in air pollution. Pg.___

  • Offers an introductory chapter that presents foundational concepts needed throughout the remainder of the book. Pg.___

• Develops subject matter and problems in a quantitative manner, integrating a wealth of examples that explain the numerical skills needed by engineers to practice environmental engineering. Pg.___

• Allows some examples to be solved in closed form while others require the use of any one of several commercially available mathematical computational programs (MathCAD, MatLab, Mathematica, TK solver etc.). Pg.___

• Provides open-ended problems that satisfy ABET design criteria in each chapter's collection of homework problems. Pg.___

• Offers broad, comprehensive coverage that considers the relationship between air pollution and the physical global environment, the social and political environment, and the affects on health and aesthetics. Pg.___

I. SETTING THE STAGE.

II. BASICS AND CONSTRAINTS.

III. ENGINEERING.

Air Pollution [CORE TEXTS] (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Environmental Technology [CORE TEXTS] (Chemical Engineering)

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