546-0355/04 – Air Protection (OchrO)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2015/2016 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Course objectives: To provide fundamental information and knowledge about processing of dust removal and gas cleaning from anthropogenic air pollution. The accent is given on separating device, dust collecting device, air pollution control equipment, gas separator, technique for air pollution measurements, air pollution, monitoring and modelling the spread of air pollution.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Project work
Field trip
Summary
Atmospheric physics, dust and industrial gas properties, dust separation, industrial gas separators, measurement of emissions and imissions, air pollution modelling, migration of chemical substances.
Compulsory literature:
BOUBEL, R. W., FOX, D. L. Fox, TURNER, B., STERN, A. C.: Fundamentals of Air Pollution (Third Edition), Academic Press, Inc., 1994
Recommended literature:
WHO. Health risk assessment of air pollution. General principles. Available online: https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/air-quality/publications/2016/health-risk-assessment-of-air-pollution.-general-principles-2016
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
- continuous examination orally and in writing
- submission of the final seminar work
- passing the written and oral exam
E-learning
Other requirements
- continuous examination orally and in writing
- submission of the final seminar work
- passing the written and oral exam
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Composition and structure of the atmosphere, its role, significance and protection
2. Thermal stratification of the atmosphere, stability classes (stability, indifference, lability). Vertical temperature gradient.
3. Pressure, basic quantities, atmospheric fronts, atmospheric circulation.
4. Air flow (basic types of flow in the atmosphere - laminar, convection, subsidence, turbulence, advection, geospheric and cyclospheric wind, meteorological characteristics).
5. Water in the atmosphere, humidity, condensation, fog, clouds (classification)
6. Meteorology (measurement and processing of basic meteorological characteristics (temperature, humidity, pressure, precipitation, heliograph, anemometer)
7. Air pollution and pollution - emissions, immissions, transfer, deposition, distribution of pollutants - characteristics, properties, sources of air pollution (distribution in terms of industry, place of leakage, etc.)
8. Greenhouse effect (causes, description, consequences)
9. Ozone depletion (causes, description, consequences), smog (causes, description, basic division, consequences)
10. Characteristic harmful effects on fauna and humans, characteristic harmful effects on vegetation
11. Characteristic harmful effects on inanimate nature
12. Measurement of immissions and evaluation of air quality
13. Mathematical modeling, propagation of ZL in the air (shapes of smoke sidings), scattering studies
14. Air protection legislation (implementing legal regulations, IRZ, ISPOP, etc.)
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction