Water Resources and Environmental Engineering
Air Pollution Engineering
Over $30 billion is spent annually on air pollution control in the
United States alone. Federal, state, and local environmental
regulations motivate reductions in emissions of pollutants such as
sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, heavy metal trace
species, volatile organic compounds, and hydrocarbons. These
pollutants result in adverse health effects, material damage, and
damage to ecosystems. The formation of secondary pollutants, such as
tropospheric ozone due to photochemical reactions in the atmosphere,
is also of major concern.
Air pollution engineering consists of two major components: (1) air
pollution control and (2) air quality engineering. Air pollution
control focuses on the fundamentals of air pollutant formation in
process technologies and the identification of options for mitigating
or preventing air pollutant emissions. Air quality engineering deals
with large-scale, multi-source control strategies, with focus on the
physics and chemistry of pollutant interactions in the
atmosphere. Individualized programs of study in air pollution
engineering may draw on courses in Civil Engineering, as well as from
other departments and local universities.
Suggested Core Courses
| CE 576 |
Engineering Principles of Air Pollution Control |
| CE 579 |
Air Quality Engineering |
| CE 779 |
Advanced Air Quality |
Suggested Core Electives
| CE 775 |
Modeling and Analysis of Environmental Systems |
| CE 772 |
Quantitative Risk Analysis |
| CE 776 |
Advanced Water Management Systems |
| CHE 575 |
Advances in Pollution Prevention |
| MEA 510 |
Air Pollution Meteorology |
| MEA 703 |
Atmospheric Aerosols |
| MEA 710 |
Atmospheric Dispersion |
| ENV 235 |
Air Quality Management (Duke Univ., broad survey, fall course) |
| ENVR 251 |
Air Pollution Control (UNC-CH, focus on particulate matter, spring
course) Offered only in spring of odd years (e.g., 1995, 1997) |
Suggested Technical Electives
| CE 537 |
Computer Methods and Applications |
| CE 571 |
Physical Principles of Environmental Engineering |
| CE 577 |
Engineering Principles of Solid Waste Management |
| EC 436 |
Environmental Economics |
| ENVR 279 |
Modeling for Environmental Risk Assessment (UNC-CH) |
| MAE 406 |
Energy Conservation in Industry |
| MAE 412 |
Design of Thermal Systems |
| MEA 503 |
Advanced Power Plants |
| PA 550 |
Environmental Policy |
| ST 515 |
Experimental Statistics for Engineers I |
| ST 516 |
Experimental Statistics for Engineers II |
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