ENVE 576: Indoor Air Pollution (Fall 2017)
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 22 Introduction to indoor air pollution
- Aug 29 Reactor models, ventilation and air exchange rates, and human exposure patterns
- Sep 5 Overview of indoor pollutants
- Sep 12 Gaseous pollutants: sources, emission models, adsorption/desorption
- Sep 19 Gaseous pollutants: reactive deposition, homogeneous chemistry
- Sep 26 Indoor aerosols: introduction
- Oct 3 Indoor aerosols: sources and indoor particle dynamics
- Oct 10 Indoor aerosols: filtration and air cleaners
- Oct 17 SVOCs, aerosol chemistry, and IAQ measurements
- Oct 24 Health effects of indoor and outdoor air pollution
- Oct 31 Indoor microbiology
- Nov 7 Airborne infectious disease transmission
- Nov 14 IAQ in developing countries & Applications and standards
- Nov 21 No class – work on your projects
- Nov 28 Student final presentations