ENVE 576: Indoor Air Pollution (Fall 2016)
ENVE 576 is the study of 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)
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Lecture Notes
- Aug 23 Introduction to indoor air pollution
- Aug 30 Reactor models, ventilation and air exchange rates, and human exposure patterns
- Sep 6 Overview of indoor pollutants
- Sep 13 Gaseous pollutants: sources, emission models, adsorption/desorption
- Sep 20 Gaseous pollutants: reactive deposition, homogeneous chemistry
- Sep 27 Indoor aerosols: introduction
- Oct 4 Indoor aerosols: sources and indoor particle dynamics
- Oct 11 Indoor aerosols: filtration and air cleaners
- Oct 18 Indoor microbiology
- Oct 25 IAQ measurements, SVOCs, and aerosol chemistry
- Nov 1 Infectious disease transmission (guest lecture)
- Nov 8 Health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution
- Nov 15 IAQ in developing countries + applications and standards
- Nov 22 Class cancelled
- Nov 29 Student presentations