ENVE 576: Indoor Air Pollution (Fall 2015)

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 September 17, 2015 (PDF)

Lecture Notes

• Aug 25 – Introduction to indoor air pollution
• Sep 1 – Reactor models, ventilation and air exchange rates, and human exposure patterns
• Sep 8 – Overview of indoor pollutants
• (Lecture moved to Friday Sep 18 at 12 PM in E1 032) – Gaseous pollutants: sources, emission models, adsorption/desorption
• Sep 22 – Gaseous pollutants: reactive deposition, homogeneous chemistry
• Sep 29 – Indoor aerosols: introduction
• Oct 6 – Indoor aerosols: sources and indoor particle dynamics
• Oct 13 – Conference travel, class cancelled
• Oct 20 – Guest lecture, Dr. Stephanie Kunkel, Indoor air microbiology
• Oct 27 – Indoor aerosols: filtration and air cleaners
• Nov 3 – SVOCs and aerosol sampling
• Nov 10 – IAQ measurement techniques and IAQ in developing countries
• Nov 17 – Health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution
• Nov 24 – Infectious disease transmission
• Dec 1 – Applications and standards