Principles of Atmosphere Analytics - AB216006
Title: Principles of Atmosphere Analytics
Guaranteed by: Department of Gaseous and Solid Fuels and Air protection (216)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2019 to 2020
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Skácel František doc. Ing. CSc.
Classification: Chemistry > Analytical Chemistry
Interchangeability : B216006, N216030
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Fundamentals of air quality assessment. Description of basic factors determining the air quality, survey of criteria of pollutants, basic rules of air quality monitoring and presentation of collected results.
Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Course completion requirements -

passing of written and oral exam

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • Wight G.D.. Fundamentals of Air Sampling. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 1993, s. ISBN 0-87371-826-7.
  • Lodge, James P.. Methods of air sampling and analysis. : , , s. ISBN 0-87371-141-6.
  • D: Winegar E.D. a Keith L.H. Sampling and Analysis of Airborne Pollutants. : , 1993, s. ISBN ISBN 087371-606-X.
  • A.G. Clarke. Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring. : , 1998, s. ISBN 0-412-63390-6.

Last update: Mužíková Zlata (29.08.2024)
Syllabus -

1. Air types characteristics

2. Factors influencing air quality

3. Anthropogennic and natural sources of the air pollution

4. Legislative and technical requirements of the air quality

5. Basic thermodynamic variables influencing air quality

6. Thermodynamic variables measurement

7. Basic sampling and sample treatment instrumentation

8. Indoor air

9. Workplace air

10. Off-line and on-line determination of suspenden particle matter and adsorbed pollutants

11. Inorganic pollutants dtermination in air samples

12. Organic pollutants dtermination in air samples

13. Automated monitoring systems

14. Remote sensing and bioindicators of air pollution

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Learning resources -

lectures given in S:\Skácel\Základy analytiky ovzduší

National Emission Standards for Hazardeuous Air Pollutants (NESHAPS)

published in Federal Register Tittle 40, Part 61, Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 61)

New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) published in Federal Register Tittle 40, Part 60, Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 60)

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

define the basic factors influencing the ambient, indoor and workplace air quality

define the ambient air quality monitoring system

define sources of waste gases

express the gaseous mixtures composition

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)
Registration requirements -

General and Inorganic Chemistry I, Physical Chemistry A

Last update: Fialová Jana (10.05.2019)