Principles of Atmosphere Analytics - N216030
Title: Základy analytiky ovzduší
Guaranteed by: Department of Gaseous and Solid Fuels and Air protection (216)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2021
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: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Skácel František doc. Ing. CSc.
Is interchangeable with: AB216006, B216006
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: TAJ216 (19.11.2013)
Aim of the course -

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: Skácel František (29.07.2013)
Course completion requirements -

passing of written and oral exam

Last update: Skácel František (25.01.2018)
Literature -

A: Wight G.D.: Fundamentals of Air Sampling, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton 1993 ISBN 0-87371-826-7

R: Lodge J.P.: Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton 1991 ISBN 0-87371-141-6

A: Winegar E.D. a Keith L.H.: Sampling and Analysis of Airborne Pollutants, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton 1993 ISBN 087371-606-X

R: A.G. Clarke : Industrial Air Pollution Monitoring. Chapman & Hall, London 1998 ISBN 0-412-63390-6

Last update: Skácel František (30.07.2013)
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 suspended 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: Skácel František (25.01.2018)
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: TAJ216 (19.11.2013)
Registration requirements -

General and Inorganic Chemistry I, Physical Chemistry A

Last update: Hlinčík Tomáš (31.01.2018)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 1 28
Účast na přednáškách 1.5 42
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1 28
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
4 / 4 112 / 112
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Defense of an individual project 40
Examination test 20
Oral examination 40