Air Quality Management

Prerequisite: ENGT 2001, ENGT 2002, and ENGB 3001.

This subject covers fundamental principles that govern air quality and examines management options for improving air quality, limiting emissions, and optimizing air pollutant control strategies. Topics include: air composition and quality measures, air toxins and pollutants; primary (industrial and mobile combustion processes, and control) and secondary (atmospheric transport and photochemical pollutant formation in ambient air, ozone depletion, global warming), health impacts (acute, chronic), air quality assessment and conformance requirements to standards, and legislation, environmental and industrial hygiene.

Credit: 3