Air Pollution Control

Course guarantor:

Pavel Vybíral

Lecturer:

Jiří Hemerka, Pavel Vybíral

Tutor:

Jiří Hemerka, Pavel Vybíral

Supervisor:

Department of Environmental Engineering

Synopsis:

Fundamentals of the air pollution control with the accent to methods of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants removal, propagation of pollutants in the atmosphere

and legislation related to reducing pollutant emissions.

Requirements:

Following requirements are demanded: Fundamentals of legislation in air pollution control. Properties of solid particle emissions, principal separation methods. Principles of gaseous pollutants removal. Methods of flue gas desulphurization. Fuel combustion and nitrogen oxide formation. Primary and secondary denitrification methods. Fundamentals of propagation of pollutants in the atmosphere.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Concept of legislation in air protection. Emission and immission limits. Principles of measuring pollutant emissions. Pollution and contamination.

2. Green Deal document. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, international agreements and measures.

3. Expression of particle size and grain size. Fractions PM10, PM2.5, PM1, health effects.

4. Limitation of solid emissions, action plan for zero pollution. Basic equation of motion of particles. Gravitational, inertial, centrifugal and electrical separation principles. Diffusion of particles.

5. General properties of separators. Total and fractional separation efficiency. Pressure loss of separators.

6. Classification of separators and their basic characteristics.

7. Basic principles of limiting gaseous emissions and greenhouse gas emissions.

8. Sulfur emissions. Methods of reducing sulfur emissions. Flue gas desulfurization. Principles and characteristics of basic flue gas desulfurization methods.

9. Formation of nitrogen oxides during fuel combustion and primary denitrification methods.

10. Secondary denitrification methods - principles and basic characteristics.

11. Emissions from mobile sources and their control

12. Dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere. Gaussian scattering model from a point source.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Expression of particle size, construction of particle size curves, determination of characteristic sizes of a set of particles. Calculation of separation velocities for basic separation principles of solid pollutants. Calculation of dry additive desulfurization method. Calculation of maximum immission concentration of a pollutant from a point source.

Study Objective:

To get fundamental knowledge and skills in areas of air pollution control - separation methods of main pollutants as solid particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and NOx and fundamentals of propagation of pollutants in the atmosphere.

Study materials:

Noel de Nevers: Air pollution control engineering, McGraw-Hill,Inc., 1995.

Bretschneider, B., Kurfurst,J: Air pollution control technology, Elsevier, 1987

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• 01 093 NSTI TZP 2012 základ (compulsory course in the program)