546-0426/08 – Air Protection ( OchOvzd)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Jana Kodymová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | 2022/2023 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master, Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Main target of subject is offering fundamental information about air (atmosphere) protection. The subject also contains an overview of equipment and techniques used for air protection and for creating the optimal environmental conditions.
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Summary
The subject deals with issues of air protection against unfavourable effects of industrial activity. Influences of individual harmful substances and also consequences of specific industrial technologies and existing possibilities and methods of their elimination are assessed. Attention is paid above all to possibilities of implementation of new technologies, separators, chemical treatment of exhaust gases and supplementary processes.
Compulsory literature:
BOUBEL R. W., FOX D. L.,TURNER B., STERN A.C.: Fundamentals of Air Pollution (Third Edition), Academic Press, Inc., 1994
Airbase - the European Air Quality Database. (2013) Available at: http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/airbase-theeuropean-air-quality-database-7
IKEFUJI, M., MAGNUS J.R., SAKAMOTO, H.: The effect of health benefits on climate change mitigation policies (2014) Climatic Change, 126 (1-2).
BRANC M., HORÁK, J., OCHODEK, T.: Fine particle emissions from combustion of wood and lignite in small furnaces (2011) Environment Protection Engineering, 37 (2), pp. 123-132
Recommended literature:
STERN, N.: The economics of climate change: The stern review (2007) The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, 9780521877251, pp. 1-692.
STOHL, A., AAMAAS, B., AMANN, M., BAKER, L.H., BELLOUIN, N., BERNTSEN, T.K., BOUCHER, O., (...), ZHU, T.: Evaluating the climate and air quality impacts of short-lived pollutants (Open Access) (2015) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15 (18), pp. 10529-10566.
Operational air pollution modelling in the UK-Street canyon applications and challenges (2007) Atmospheric Environment, 41 (22), pp. 4622-4637.
FUZZI, S., BALTENSPERGER, A., CARSLAW, K., DECESARI, S., DENIER Van Der GON, H., FACCHINI, M.C., FOWLER, D., (...), GILARDONI, S.: Particulate matter, air quality and climate: Lessons learned and future needs (Open Access) (2015) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 15 (14), pp. 8217-8299.
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
Knowledge from previous studies, especially in the field of physics, chemistry, mathematics and and general environmental protection.
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 - 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
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