Module Notes

Air Pollution Management

This module will not be offered for this semester

Faculty Member (Members)

spyros

Undergraduate

Spring

5th Year

10th Semester (5th Year, Spring)

Module Type

Core Chemical Engineering

Module Category

Thematic Unit Electives, Group A

Course Code:

CHM_E_A6

Course URL:

E-Class (CMNG2119)

Credits:

ECTS Credits:

Module Availability on Erasmus Students:

Yes

Teaching Language:

English/Greek

Laboratory:

Lectures:

3h/W

Τutorial:

Project/Homework:

6/Semester

Teaching Type

Student's office hours:

Module Details

Learning Outcomes

Learning of how to apply the principles of chemical engineering (classical and chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid mechanics, mass and heat transfer) to improve air quality.

Ability to recognize contemporary environmental issues related to air pollution and climate change.

Prerequisites

Chemical Thermodynamics; Transport Phenomena; Reaction Engineering

The Atmosphere. History and development, atmospheric layers, pressure change with altitude, atmospheric composition, transport times in the atmosphere, major gas-phase pollutants, atmospheric particulate matter, toxics, standards and regulations.

Tropospheric chemistry. Basic photochemical cycle of NO₂, NO and O₃, atmospheric chemistry of CO, formaldehyde chemistry, chemistry of the clean atmosphere, tropospheric ozone, the role of organic compounds and NO_x in ozone formation.

Aqueous-phase chemistry. Water in the atmosphere, absorption of pollutants in clouds, sulfuric acid formation, nitric acid formation.

Atmospheric particulate matter. Chemical composition and size distribution, thermodynamic principles, water and particulate matter, thermodynamics of atmospheric particles, organic components of aerosols, primary and secondary aerosols.

Wet deposition and acid rain General principles, collection of gas-phase pollutants by rain, collection of particles by rain, acid deposition, synthesis of processes leading to acid deposition.