Air Pollution Calculations
Quantifying Pollutant Formation, Transport, Transformation, Fate and Risks
- 2nd Edition - September 17, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Daniel A. Vallero
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 9 8 7 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 9 8 8 - 8
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Request a sales quoteAir Pollution Calculations: Quantifying Pollutant Formation, Transport, Transformation, Fate and Risks, Second Edition enhances the systems science aspects of air pollution, including transformation reactions in soil, water, sediment and biota that contribute to air pollution. This second edition will be an update based on research and actions taken since 2019 that affect air pollution calculations, including new control technologies, emissions measurement, and air quality modeling. Recent court cases, regulatory decisions, and advances in technology are discussed and, where necessary, calculations have been revised to reflect these updates. Sections discuss pollutant characterization, pollutant transformation, and environmental partitioning.
Air partitioning, physical transport of air pollutants, air pollution biogeochemistry, and thermal reactions are also thoroughly explored. The author then carefully examines air pollution risk calculations, control technologies and dispersion models. The text wraps with discussions of economics and project management, reliability and failure, and air pollution decision-making.
- Provides real-life current cases as examples of quantitation of emerging air pollution problems
- Includes straightforward derivation of equations, giving practitioners and instructors a direct link between first principles of science and applications of technologies
- Presents example calculations that make scientific theory real for the student and practitioner
Environmental science engineers, researchers, faculty, and students, Pollution control-related industries, environmental science and engineering departments at universities and colleges, engineering firms
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Inside Front Cover
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1 What is air pollution?
- 1.2 A bit of history
- 1.3 The science of air pollution
- 1.4 The atmosphere
- 1.5 Recent trends
- 1.6 Spatial scale
- 1.7 Stressor–receptor paradigm
- 1.8 Calculation basics
- 1.9 Systems thinking and sustainability
- 1.10 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2. Characterizing air pollutants
- Abstract
- 2.1 The periodic table
- 2.2 Empirical calculations
- 2.3 Health characterization
- 2.4 Formation reactions
- 2.5 Reaction types
- 2.6 Pollutant formation processes: introduction to chemodynamics
- 2.7 Nonchemical concentrations
- References
- Chapter 3. Pollutant transformations
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The compound
- 3.3 Air pollution kinetics
- 3.4 Energy in atmospheric transformations
- 3.5 Atmospheric kinetics calculations
- 3.6 Transformation thermodynamics
- References
- Chapter 4. Environmental partitioning
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Equilibrium
- 4.3 What is the Ksp for cadmium fluoride?
- 4.4 Partitioning and transport
- 4.5 Integrating inherent properties and substrate characteristics
- 4.6 Movement from liquid to solid phase
- 4.7 The octanol–water coefficient
- 4.8 Partitioning between air and tissue
- 4.9 Environmental persistence
- 4.10 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5. Air partitioning
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Henry’s law revisited
- 5.3 Movement into the atmosphere
- 5.4 Interfaces
- 5.5 Partitioning between air and tissue
- 5.6 Monod equation
- 5.7 Phytopartitioning
- 5.8 Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 6. Physical transport of air pollutants
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Partitioning meets the laws of motion
- 6.3 Diffusion and biological processes
- 6.4 Partitioning, transport, and kinetics
- References
- Chapter 7. Water and the atmosphere
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The water molecule as an agent of change
- 7.3 The hydrosphere
- 7.4 Ionization, acidity, and alkalinity
- 7.5 Pollutant deposition from the hydrosphere
- 7.6 Intercompartmental exchange to and from the hydrosphere
- 7.7 Water, oxygen, and energy relationships
- 7.8 Reactions with water
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 8. Air pollution biogeochemistry
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Spheres and cycles
- 8.3 Carbon equilibrium and cycling
- 8.4 Nutrient cycling
- 8.5 Metal and metalloid cycles
- 8.6 Biogeochemical cycles and decision-making
- References
- Chapter 9. Thermal reactions
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Air and combustion
- 9.3 Volatility of combustion products
- 9.4 Flue gas
- 9.5 Thermal pollutant destruction
- 9.6 Activation energy
- 9.7 Nitrogen and sulfur
- 9.8 Metals in thermal reactions
- References
- Chapter 10. Air pollution phases and flows
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Gas-phase pollutants
- 10.3 Air pollution fluid dynamics
- 10.4 Aerosols
- 10.5 Concentration
- References
- Chapter 11. Sampling and analysis
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Quality assurance
- 11.3 Data quality objectives
- 11.4 Sampling air pollutant emissions and releases
- 11.5 Ambient air pollution monitoring
- 11.6 Ambient air pollutant sampling
- 11.7 Gas- and vapor-phase measurement methods
- 11.8 Methods for specific pollutants
- 11.9 Particulate matter
- 11.10 Measuring gas and particulate phases together
- 11.11 Laboratory analysis
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 12. Air pollution risk calculations
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Accountability based on risk reduction and sustainability
- 12.3 Defining risk
- 12.4 Dose–response curves
- 12.5 Uncertainty and factors of safety
- 12.6 Exposure estimation
- 12.7 Direct cancer risk calculations
- 12.8 Risk-based treatment targets
- 12.9 Causality
- References
- Chapter 13. Air pollution control technologies
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Particulate matter controls
- 13.3 Forces
- 13.4 Particle morphology
- 13.5 Mechanisms of particulate removal
- 13.6 Aerosol removal technologies
- 13.7 Removal of liquid droplets and mists
- 13.8 Gas-phase pollutant controls
- 13.9 Air pollutant treatment technologies
- 13.10 Removal of odors
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 14. Air pollution dispersion models
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Meteorological data and graphics
- 14.3 Gaussian models
- 14.4 Stability
- 14.5 Eulerian models
- 14.6 Model levels
- 14.7 Model uncertainty
- 14.8 Links to exposure and dose models
- 14.9 Recent advances
- References
- Chapter 15. Economics and project management
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Emission strategies
- 15.3 Engineering economics
- 15.4 Comparing alternatives
- 15.5 Replacement cost analysis
- 15.6 Life cycle comparisons
- References
- Chapter 16. Reliability and failure
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Failure classification
- 16.3 Margins of safety
- 16.4 Success
- 16.5 Systems engineering
- References
- Chapter 17. Air pollution decision-making
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Data-based decision-making
- 17.3 Ethics
- 17.4 Ethical analysis of decisions and actions
- 17.5 Linking causes and outcomes
- 17.6 Analysis of complex air pollution problems
- References
- Appendix A. Key equations
- A.1 Atmospheric chemistry
- A.2 Atmospheric physics
- A.3 Partitioning
- A.4 Meteorology
- A.5 Biogeochemistry
- A.6 Air pollution engineering
- A.7 Geometry
- A.8 Statistics
- A.9 Air pollution risk
- A.10 Dispersion modeling
- A.11 Reliability engineering
- A.12 Air pollution economics
- Appendix B. Abbreviations and symbols
- Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: September 17, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 672
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443139871
- eBook ISBN: 9780443139888
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Daniel A. Vallero
Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, NC, USARead Air Pollution Calculations on ScienceDirect