ENEV 439 Air
Pollution Control (3)
Required course
for majors in the environmental specialty.
Catalog Description:
Principles of control and remediation of
contaminated air.
Emphasis on design of air pollution control strategies for particulates, VOC’s,
SOx, and NOx. Scrubbers, combustion,
and catalytic oxidation. Design project. Spring
semester. Lecture 3 hours.
Prerequisites:
ENGR 222, ENEV 433 with grades of C or
better.
Text book/references:
C.
D. Cooper and F. C. Alley, “Air Pollution
Control: A Design Approach.” 3rd ed. Waveland
Press 2002.
Course Objectives: (numbers in brackets indicate the relationship to engineering program
outcomes)
Familiarize
students with the processes that remove chemical pollutants from flue gas.
·
Students will be
able to apply basic principles of chemistry and physics to chemical and
environmental processes (1).
·
Students will be
able to design unit operations and processes to remove pollutants from flue gas
(2, 4).
Class/laboratory schedule:
Lecture
either three times per week at 50 minutes per class, or two times per week at
75 minutes per class.
Topical Covered:
Week Topic
1
Introduction.
2
When is a
chemical agent a pollutant?
3
Costs. Often
costs (not technology) determine how much pollution we live with.
4
The Big 3 of air
pollution: VOC’s, SO2, and NOx.
5
Combustion and
VOC incinerators.
6
Continued
7
Continued
8
Catalytic
oxidation – the catalytic converter.
9
Carbon
adsorption.
10
Continued
11
Gas absorption.
12
SO2
Scrubbers.
13
Continued
14
NOx
control.
15
Membrane
separations using solid and liquid membranes.
Contribution to Professional Component:
Contributes toward the 1.5 years of engineering topics
as a 3 credit hour course with environmental, health, and economic
considerations in engineering sciences and engineering design.
Relationship of course to program outcomes
This
course supports engineering outcomes 1, 2, and 4.
Prepared by: Dr. Frank Jones,