Detailed Course Summary

Module 1
- Historical perspectives of air pollution: episodes and history
- Air pollutants: definition, sources and types of air pollution.

Module 2
- Ambient air pollution monitoring: techniques and instrumentation; monitoring stations
- Stack monitoring: techniques and instrumentation.
- Experimental analysis: gaseous and particulates; standards and limits.

Module 3
- Air pollution effects: on living and nonliving beings.
- Air pollution control: principles of controls, source control.

Module 4
- Air Pollution meteorology: basics of dispersion phenomenon, stability, plume shapes.

Module 5
- Fundamentals of air quality modeling: definition of air quality model, Gaussian model for point source.

Module 6
- Indoor air pollution: basics of indoor air quality, sources and types of indoor air pollutants, effects of indoor air pollutants.

Module 7
- Issues of concerns in air pollution: green house effect, acid rain, ozone hole, and photochemical smog.