Overview
- Introduces students to underlying causes of air pollution and greenhouse gases
- Provides state-of-the-art knowledge in the control of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions
- Includes examples that illustrate the principles and designs of air pollution and greenhouse gas emission control technologies
- Outlines air emission control approaches from a process point of view, starting from pre-combustion to air dispersion
- Worked examples and tutorial questions are presented at the end of each chapter
- Contains supplementary material on the reduction of air pollution and greenhouse gas; carbon sequestration and storage; nano air pollution
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Table of contents(15 chapters)
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Basic Concepts
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Engineering Applications
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Special Topics
About this book
This textbook discusses engineering principles relating to air pollution and greenhouse gases (GHGs); it focuses on engineering principles and designs of related devices and equipment for air emission control for a variety of industries such as energy, chemical, and transportation industries. The book aims primarily at senior undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, chemical and/or environmental engineering departments; it can also be used as a reference book by technical staff and design engineers who are interested in and need to have technical knowledge in air pollution and GHGs. The book is motivated by recent rapid advances in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and their control technologies. In addition to classic topics related to air pollution, this book is also featured with emerging topics related to air pollution and GHGs. It covers recent advances in engineering approaches to the reduction of GHG emissions including, but are not limited to, green energy technologies and carbon sequestration and storage. It also introduces an emerging topic in air pollution, which is referred to as Nano Air Pollution. It is a growing concern in air pollution, but largely missing in similar books, likely because of recent rapid advances in nanotechnology has outpaced the advances in nano air pollution control.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Zhongchao Tan
About the author
His areas of research and publication are in aerosol technology, air pollution control, green energy and indoor air quality. He is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of The International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering and the international journal of Sustainable Environment Research.
He has served on the ASME Technical Committee of Air Pollution Control, Technical Advisory Committee of Canadian Environmental Technology Verification Program and Indoor Environment Research Program Technical Advisory Committee of the National Research Council Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases
Book Subtitle: From Basic Concepts to Engineering Applications for Air Emission Control
Authors: Zhongchao Tan
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-212-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-211-1Published: 13 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1217-4Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-212-8Published: 03 November 2014
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 481
Number of Illustrations: 128 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology