ENVE 576: Indoor Air Pollution (Fall 2014)

Indoor air pollution sources, indoor pollutant levels, monitoring instruments and designs; indoor pollution control strategies: source control, control equipment and ventilation; energy conservation and indoor air pollution; exposure studies and population time budgets; effects of indoor air population; risk analysis; models for predicting source emission rates and their impact on indoor air environments.

Course Syllabus (updated as we go; includes current schedule)

• Most recent syllabus, updated Nov 3, 2014 (PDF)

Lecture Notes

• Week 1 – Aug 26 – Introduction to indoor air pollution
• Week 2 – Sep 2 – Reactor models, ventilation and air exchange rates, and human exposure patterns
• Week 3 – Sep 9 – Overview of indoor pollutants
• Week 4 – Sep 16 – Gaseous pollutants: sources, emission models, adsorption/desorption
• Week 5 – Sep 23 – Gaseous pollutants: reactive deposition, homogeneous chemistry
• Week 6 – Sep 30 – Particulate matter: indoor particle dynamics, particle size distributions, lung deposition
• Week 7 – Oct 7 – Lecture cancelled
• Week 8 – Oct 14 – Guest lecture, Dr. Stephanie Kunkel, Indoor air microbiology
• Week 9 – Oct 21 – Particulate matter: Indoor and outdoor sources, deposition, resuspension, penetration/infiltration
• Week 10 – Oct 28 – Particulate matter: Filtration and air cleaners
• Week 11 – Nov 4 – SVOCs; health effects/epidemiology
• Week 12 – Nov 11 – IAQ in developing countries/IAQ measurements
• Week 13 – Nov 18 – Infectious disease transmission
• Week 14 – Nov 25 – Applications and standards
• Week 15 – Dec 2 – No class – review panel