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Contents
1 Air Emissions .. ... .. ... .. ... .. .. ... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. 1
1.1 Air .. .. ... .. ... .. ... .. .. ... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. 1
1.2 Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2.1 Air Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2.2 Greenhouse Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 Effects of Air Pollution and GHGs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3.1 Health Effects of Air Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3.2 Environmental Impact. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.3 Greenhouse Gas Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4 Roots of Air Pollution and GHGs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.4.1 Anthropogenic Air Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.4.2 Growing Population and Energy Consumption. . . . . 10
1.4.3 International Energy Outlook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.4.4 Global Air Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.5 General Approaches to Air Emission Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.5.1 Air Emission and Air Quality Standards . . . . . . . . . 14
1.5.2 General Engineering Approaches to Air
Emission Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.6 Scope and Structure of This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.7 Units and Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.8 Practice Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.8.1 Multiple Choice Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1.8.2 Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
References and Further Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Part I Basic Concepts
2 Basic Properties of Gases . .. ... .. .. ... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. 27
2.1 Gas Kinetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.1.1 Speeds of Gas Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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