SYLLABUS
ME 416—Air Pollution Control
Revised Oct. 2,2008
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
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,
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)=(
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Topics |
Homework Due |
Homework Solutions |
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Tues. 8-19 |
Introduction, Course Outline, Effects and Sources of Air Pollution |
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1-26 |
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Thur. 8-21 |
Effects of Air Pollution |
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27-54 |
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Tues. 8-26 |
Climate Change |
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R 9-28 |
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T 9-2 |
Climate Change Current Opinions |
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R 9-4 |
Regulations See sites from www.epa.gov |
1-5, 1-11, 1-17 |
Chapter 2 |
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T 9 -9 |
Atmospheric Lapse rate, Stability, Velocity, Mixing and Turbulence |
117-139
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R-9-11 |
Dispersion |
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143-168 |
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T T-16 |
Dispersion |
2-5, 2-11, 215 |
168-181 |
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R 9-18 |
Particulates |
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188-207 |
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T 9-23 |
Particulates-Settling |
208-214 |
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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.) |
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T 10-30 |
Exam 1 (Through lecture 9) |
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R 10-2 |
NANOPARTICLES Handout |
Problem 5-29 parts a, b, c., 5-37, 5-38. |
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T 10-4 |
NANOPARTICLES |
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Lecture
12: |
Design: Hood and Duct, Particulate Control Mechanisms |
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215-220 |
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Lecture
13: |
Design: Settling Chambers, Cyclones |
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220-232 |
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Lecture
14: |
Design: Wet Collection, Wet Scrubbers |
5-45, 5-53 (use eqn 5-55a), 5-71 |
232-248 |
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Lecture
16: |
Design: Electrostatic Precipitators |
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260-278 |
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R 10-23 |
REVIEW |
5-83, 5-87 |
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T 10-28 |
Exam 2 |
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Tues. 11-4 |
Adsorption |
5-108, 5-110 |
294-304 |
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Adsorption |
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304-314 |
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Tues. 11-11 |
Thermal Oxidation-Combustion |
341-350, 357-361 |
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Tues. 11-13 |
Thermal Oxidation |
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Thanksgiving break |
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T-12-2 |
Thermal Oxidation |
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T 12-4 |
High Temp. Thermal Oxidation /Evaluation |
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Mobile Sources/Course Evaluations |
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H 12-6 |
TBA |
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Lecture
26 Nitrogen Oxides, Optional Extra
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