1st Edition

Air Toxics Problems and Solutions

By Kumar Ganesan Copyright 1996
342 Pages
by CRC Press

354 Pages
by CRC Press

342 Pages
by CRC Press

This timely new workbook is the result of a year-long effort by a group of university professors who first met at Montana Tech during the summer of 1994 for a college faculty workshop. The workshop was funded by the National Science Foundation's support for those faculty developing courses in the newly emerging field of air toxics. Part I of the book contains over 100 problems dealing with a... Read more

Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Lecturers -- 1 Air Toxics Problems -- 1. Basic Principles -- 2. Regulations -- 3. Source Characterization -- 4. Pollution Prevention -- 5. Air Toxics Control by Ventilation -- 6. Treatment of Gases -- 7. Treatment of Particulates -- 8. Air Dispersion Modeling -- 9. Health Risk Assessment -- 10. Hazard Risk Assessment -- 11. Risk Communication -- 12. Economics -- 13. Ethics -- 14. Case Studies -- 2 Air Toxics Solutions -- 1. Basic Principles -- 2. Regulations -- 3. Source Characterization -- 4. Pollution Prevention -- 5. Air Toxics Control by Ventilation -- 6. Treatment of Gases -- 7. Treatment of Particulates -- 8. Air Dispersion Modeling -- 9. Health Risk Assessment -- 10. Hazard Risk Assessment -- 11. Risk Communication -- 12. Economics -- 13. Ethics -- 14. Case Studies -- Appendix A Gaussian Plume Dispersion Data -- Appendix B Ozone Non-Attainment Areas -- Appendix C State and Territorial Air Pollution Control Agencies -- Appendix D EPA Support Centers and Hotlines -- Appendix E Unit Risks Tables for Hazardous Air Pollutants from California -- Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) -- Index.

Biography

Kumar Ganesan