Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases

This textbook discusses engineering principles relating to air pollution and greenhouse gases (GHGs); it focuses on engineering principles and designs of related devices and equipment for air emission control for a variety of industries such as energy, chemical, and transportation industries. The book aims primarily at senior undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, chemical and/or environmental engineering departments; it can also be used as a reference book by technical staff and design engineers who are interested in and need to have technical knowledge in air pollution and GHGs. The book is motivated by recent rapid advances in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and their control technologies. In addition to classic topics related to air pollution, this book is also featured with emerging topics related to air pollution and GHGs. It covers recent advances in engineering approaches to the reduction of GHG emissions including, but are not limited to, green energy technologies and carbon sequestration and storage. It also introduces an emerging topic in air pollution, which is referred to as Nano Air Pollution. It is a growing concern in air pollution, but largely missing in similar books, likely because of recent rapid advances in nanotechnology has outpaced the advances in nano air pollution control.

Introduces students to underlying causes of air pollution and greenhouse gases Provides state-of-the-art knowledge in the control of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions Includes examples that illustrate the principles and designs of air pollution and greenhouse gas emission control technologies Outlines air emission control approaches from a process point of view, starting from pre-combustion to air dispersion Worked examples and tutorial questions are presented at the end of each chapter Contains supplementary material on the reduction of air pollution and greenhouse gas; carbon sequestration and storage; nano air pollution Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Lei Wang is a PhD student at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his BSc and MSc degrees from Hefei University of Technology, China, and University of Science and Technology of China, China, respectively. Lei's research interests are in design and optimization of membrane electrode assembly reactors for industrial-grade applications. Dr. Zhongchao Tan is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is a Founding Chair Professor and Vice Provost & Dean of Academic Affairs at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China. He received his BSc and MSc degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA in 2004. He was the founding Executive Director of Tsinghua-Waterloo Joint Research Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies, and the Associate Dean (International) of Waterloo Engineering. In addition, Tan has provided dedicated services to several professional societies, including the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering, International Association for Green Energy, Standard Council Canada/ISO, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Yimin Wu is the inaugural Tang Family Chair in New Energy Materials and Sustainability and a professor at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Canada. Professor Wu’s research focuses on the design of new energy materials for solar fuels and batteries, and novel electronic, photonic, responsive materials for flexible electronics and soft robotics, and energy efficient neuromorphic computing through a deep understanding of energy transduction processes at interfaces. Dr Wu is the director of the Materials Interfaces Foundry (MIF) at the University of Waterloo and serves on the board of directors of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and serves on the editorial board of the journal Energy and Environmental Materials. Dr Wu has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, which includes Nature, Nature Energy, Nature communications, and Advanced Materials. He is listed as an inventor on 7 US/international patents and has delivered over 40 invited lectures across the world in last 5 years.

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From the Contents: Part I Fundamental Principles.- Combustion Basics.- Properties of Gaseous Pollutants.- Properties of Particles.- Separation of Gas Pollutants from Air.- Part II Engineering Designs and Applications.- Air Emissions From Actual Fuel Combustion.- Air Quality and Air Emission Monitoring.- Pre Combustion Air Emission Control.- Part III Special Topics.- Carbon Sequestration and Storage.