SYLLABUS
ME 416—Air Pollution Control
Revised Sept. 1,2008

Course Title--Air Pollution Control, ME 416

Location: Engr A 210, T-R 9:35-10:50

Date: Fall 2008

Instructor: James W. Blackburn   

Office: B 110

Phone: 618-453-7008

Email: blackbur@engr.siu.edu

Blackburn Office Hours: M, 11-1; Tues, 12-2; Wed. 11-1, Thurs 12-1; and by appointment

Web Page: http://www.engr.siu.edu/blackburn/me416/index.html (some browsers require the index.html for this file)

Book: Air Pollution Control, Its Origin and Control, 3rd. ed, Wark, 1999, Warner and Davis, Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park
 
 

Objective:  Introduce students to the topic and some design in air pollution control.  This will help the future engineers to work easily with consultants or other experts if APC requirements emerge in their future careers.

Course Requirements:

1. Read Book—Use Lecture Notes

Course lectures will follow and amplify the assigned text. Additional material will be available in the Lecture Notes. Lecture notes will be available before class from the internet.

These will be self-expanding zip files with a password I’ll give you in class. Once expanded, use Powerpoint to view the notes and if you wish, print the notes. Since I add material in class that are not on the preprepared notes, you should make your class notes on the prearranged lecture notes.
 

2. Do Homework

Homework assignments will be as shown on the syllabus.  They will be due on time on the class day shown on the syllabus.   The only way to succeed in this course is to work problems, make mistakes then correct the mistakes. Obviously, this is best done before you take tests. 

You are not permitted to copy homework.
 

3. Tests

There will be two open-book, open class notes tests and I will choose either a final exam or project. The tests may have both qualitative (factual) questions and quantitative (problem-solving) questions. These dates are listed on your course schedule and we hope no makeup exams will be permitted. If you have a serious problem that you can prove, contact me well before the exam to arrange something, if posssible.

4. Quizzes

I reserve the right to have unannounced quizzes if the course attendence lags. I will let you know if I am having the quizzes when and if the problem presents itself. If we have to have quizzes, the average of the quizzes after the low is dropped will be counted as one test grade.

5.  Attendance

Attendance will be called at the beginning of the class each day. You are permitted to miss four classes without penalty.  The grade will then be based on 50 point maximum and will be the actual classes attended divided by the total number minus four times 50.  No grades of over 50 for the attendences will be allowed.
 

6. Grading

Overall homework scores will be the equivalent of one test. The final exam (or if I choose a project) will be the equivalent of one test. The average quiz grade (if I am forced to have quizzes) will be the equivalent of one test. The following equation will be used to calculate the final grade:
 
 

Final Grade (no quizzes)=( Homework Ave + sum of two Test Scores + Final Exam Score (or Project)+Attendence) / 450

 

Date

Topics

Homework Due

Homework Solutions

Readings

Lecture 1: 

Tues. 8-19

Introduction, Course Outline, Effects and Sources of Air Pollution

 

 

1-26

Lecture 2:

Thur. 8-21

Effects of Air Pollution

 

 

27-54

Tues. 8-26

Climate Change

 

 

 

R 9-28

Climate Change

 

 

 

T 9-2

Climate Change Current Opinions

 

 

 

Lecture 5: 

R 9-4

Regulations See sites from www.epa.gov

 

1-5, 1-11, 1-17

Answers to first homework

Chapter 2

Lecture 7: 

T 9 -9

Atmospheric Lapse rate, Stability, Velocity, Mixing and Turbulence

Homework A

Answers to Homework A

117-139 

 

Lecture 8:

 

R-9-11

Dispersion

 

 

143-168

Lecture 9:

T T-16

Dispersion

2-5, 2-11, 215

Answers to Homework 3

168-181

Lecture 10:

R 9-18

Particulates

 

 

188-207

Lecture 11:

T 9-23

Particulates-Settling

Homework 4

Answers to Homework 4.

208-214

R 9-25

Review

Problem 407 (solve both with Figure 4-8 and Eq. 4-15),  4-22 , 4-33, 4-46. (wind speed is at effective stack height.)

Answers Homework 5

 

T 10-30

Exam 1 (Through lecture 9)

 

 

 

R 10-2

NANOPARTICLES Handout

Problem 5-29 parts a, b, c., 5-37, 5-38.

Answers Homework 6

 

T 10-4

NANOPARTICLES

 

 

 

Lecture 12:
R 10-9

Design: Hood and Duct, 

Particulate Control Mechanisms

 

 

 215-220

Lecture 13:
T 10-14

Design: Settling Chambers, Cyclones

 

 

220-232

Lecture 14:
R 10-16

Design: Wet Collection, Wet Scrubbers

5-45, 5-53 (use eqn 5-55a), 5-71

Answers Homework 7

 232-248

Lecture 16:
T 10-21

Design: Electrostatic Precipitators

 

 

260-278

R 10-23

REVIEW

5-83, 5-87

Answers homework 8

 

T 10-28

Exam 2

 

 

 

Lecture 17:

Tues. 11-4

Adsorption

5-108, 5-110

Answers homework 9

294-304


Lecture 18:
Thur. 11-6

Adsorption

 

 

304-314

Lecture 22:

Tues. 11-11

Thermal Oxidation-Combustion

Homework 10

Answers homework 10

341-350, 357-361

LECTURE 23

Tues. 11-13

Thermal Oxidation

 

 

 

Thanksgiving break

 

 

 

 

Lecture 24

T-12-2

Thermal Oxidation

 

 

 

T 12-4

 

High Temp.

Thermal Oxidation

/Evalualtion

Homework 12

Answer homework 12

 

Lecture 25

Mobile Sources/Course Evaluations

 

 

 

H 12-6

TBA

 

 

 

Lecture 26        Nitrogen Oxides, Optional Extra Information