CEE 452 Air Quality
CEE 452: Air Quality (Required for a BSEnvE degree)

Study of air quality management, standards and regulations and pollutant dynamics. Design and operation of emission control equipment for mobile and stationary sources of pollution.
CEE 350 (Environmental Pollution and Control),
or junior standing AIR POLLUTION: Its Origin and Control (3rd edition), by Wark, Warner, and Davis, Addison Wesley Students taking CEE 452 will obtain a thorough understanding of air quality as it pertains to ambient conditions and to industrial gas streams. In particular, students will obtain knowledge and skills in the following areas:

  1. Definitions, composition of air and gases generated by combustion units, applications of the ideal gas law, standard conditions, standardizing concentrations for temperature and pressure, normalizing concentrations of contaminants for H2O and CO2 or O2
  2. Chemical and physical classification of particulate and gaseous contaminants
  3. Particle mechanics, aerosol optics, and visibility degradation
  4. Air quality legislation, the clean air act and its amendments
  5. Design and operation of particulate and gaseous pollutant removal mechanisms including gravitational settling chambers, wet, venturi, and cyclonic scrubbers, electrostatic precipitators, fabric filters, adsorption beds and absorption towers.
  6. Air pollution dispersion theory including Gaussian dispersion models, elevated point source dispersion, atmospheric stability and the design of air emission stacks.
  1. Introduction to Air Quality Engineering and basic definitions (1 hr)
  2. Chemical and Physical Classification of Air Pollutants (3 hrs)
  3. Particle Mechanics (4 hr)
  4. Aerosol Optics and Visibility Degradation (3 hr)
  5. Air Legislation (3 hr)
  6. Air Pollution Control Devices (19 hrs)
  7. Introduction to Combustion (1 hr)
  8. Adsorption and Absorption (4 hrs)
  9. Air Dispersion Theory (4 hrs)
One 150- minute lecture session per week. Required use of a spreadsheet program None College-level mathematics and basic sciences: 0 credits Engineering topics: 3 credits General education: 0 credits This course will enhance the student's

  1. ability to apply knowledge in mathematics, physics, fluid mechanics, and engineering science to environmental engineering problems,
  2. ability to develop design criteria to meet desired needs and to design an environmental engineering system, component, or a process satisfying these criteria,
  3. ability to identify and formulate an engineering problem, to collect and analyze relevant data, and to develop a solution,
  4. ability to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a societal and global context,
  5. knowledge of current issues and awareness of emerging technologies,
  6. knowledge of fundamentals of environmental system modeling,
  7. proficiency in atmospheric systems and air pollution control.
Ali H. Omar April 8, 2003