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air pollution book
The book was new so of course it was in great condition. However, my school bookstore sold it for much cheaper. I unfortunately could only receive a percentage back when I returned it. Live and learn.The seller was very courteous and I received my refund promptly. ... Read more

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In Smokestacks and Progressives, David Stradling explains theevolution of one of America's first environmental movements--the antismoke crusade of the early1900s. The roots of modern environmentalism, Stradling explains, reach deep into the Victorianera, when early reformers connected beauty, health, and cleanliness with morality and demandedgovernment assistance in maintaining all of them. Air quality became an important issue formiddle-class residents in coal-dependent cities--how could a city without pure air, they asked,truly be clean, healthful, and moral? Eventually engineers came to the fore, displaced thereformers (many of them women) as leaders of the movement, and answered their ownquestion--how to abate dirty air. ... Read more

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Important Work
This is an important addition to American urban environmental history.Stradling makes important connections about industrialization and early environmentalism in an interesting way.The book is very well written and enjoyable to read.

Essential reading for all environmentalists and historians.
The author, David S. Stradling, Ph.D., is on the forefront of today's analysis of environmental history.This work will soon be considered the definitive treatise on the subject.I recommend the text unequivocally. ... Read more

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Air Quality Compliance and Permitting Handbook provides a straightforward, easy-to-read, nonlegal explanation of the regulatory and technical concepts of air quality compliance, explaining how to effectively manage air compliance at a facility. Although the majority ofthe book is devoted to a wide general applicability, it also describes the actual permit submissions that are required under regulations (many of which end up being state requirements) and the technical and analytical approaches which are needed in preparing the information required in the permit applications. Useful topics include: Fundamental 1990 and previous Clean Air Act concepts, Permitting, Compliance Checklists and riskassessment methodologies. ... Read more

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Made Sense of It All
This is a terrific, clear explanation of air pollution rules. As a plant manager, I got more useful information from this book than I got in five years of paying attorneys and consultants. It's an easy read and it's easy to find the information you need. In the 700 pages (not 1,500 like somebody else said) Mr. Trzupek makes sense of all of the rules that nobody can understand, gives you weapons to fight with and provides a bunch of resources to use. This is a book I can actually use.

Not Worth It
Three hundred pages of generalities, very little specific. 1200 pages of appendix. The book was over price, considering it is really nothing more than a dictionary of air quality compliance and permitting. The chapters and topics over and over suggest the topic at hand is complicated and changing and to variable to go into specifics. For 90 dollars and 1500 pages I want to know specifics for different processes, at different levels, in different regions, in different states. On page three he suggests that if you are looking for a book that covers every possible contingency this book is not for you...he is correct...yet the book should be renamed to 'If You Are In Business, You Can't Afford Not To Hire Someone That Can Understand Air-Quality Compliance...But Not Write A Comprehensive Text On The Subject in 1500 Pages or Less". ... Read more

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This book documents how much U.S. air quality has improved in recent decades and gives by far the most accurate picture available of continuing air pollution problems and how to address them. ... Read more

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A Bubble of Fresh Air in a Sea of Alarmism
Joel Schwarz and Steve Hayward have put together a solid evidence-based book that penetrates so much of the interest-group politics that passes for environmental science - and journalism - these days.

If people knew how much our air quality has improved over the past 30 years, they'd be stunned; not only by the gains, but by how the media have created a perpetual bad-news narrative built on spurious air quality standards designed to keep EPA bureaucrats in jobs. (Call them: asymptotic air quality standards.)

Anyone serious about the gains the US has made in air quality should read this book. It's, well, a breath of fresh air.

Biased
Be warned that this book has a political agenda. It is written and published by the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank in Washington, DC. ... Read more

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Riddled with ERRORS
This book may seem like the way to go. BUT DON'T DO IT!It is 3 days before the PE exam and I am so frustruated with all of the Academy of Environmental Engineering Materials that I had to write this review.

Throughout the entire book, there are mistakes in the formulas and practice problems that are given. It can not be trusted.

A complete text regarding air quality issues
This book covers all aspects of air quality issues.Both the theory and practical application sections are very well written.This book should become the the standard text for air quality engineering. ... Read more

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The updated edition of this popular guide covers basic concepts and details various approaches to the identification and assessment of indoor air contaminants that contribute to building-related illness in commercial buildings, institutions, and residences. Included are newly added topics focusing on less common concerns in indoor air quality such as psychological and building comfort factors and approaches to assessing air movement within buildings. Expanded appendices and three new chapters provide the reader with 30 percent new material, including the most recent approaches to indoor air quality as well as more inclusive information to further address quality problems.

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This book presents the background and application of receptor models for the source identification and quantitative mass apportionment of airborne pollutants. Over the past decade, receptor models have become an accepted part of the process for developing effective and efficient air quality management plans. Information is provided on the ambient and source sampling and chemical analysis needed to provide the input data for receptor models. Commonly used models are described with examples so that the air quality specialist can see how these models are applied. Recent advances in several areas of the field are presented as well as the perspective of both U.S. Federal and State level air quality managers on how these models fit into the development of a management plan.

The aim of the book is to provide a practical guide to persons who may be given the task of implementing receptor modeling as a part of some air quality management problem. The intention of all the chapter authors is to furnishboth the basic information needed to begin doing receptor modeling as well as some insight into some of the problems related to the use of these models. These tools like any others used in solving complex technological problems are not a panacea, but do represent powerful aids in data analysis that can lead to insights as to how an airshed functions and thus, to effective and efficient air quality management strategies. ... Read more

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This text is intended to be used in a lecture course for college students in air quality, with a focus on modelling challenges. The key current issues are discussed within six chapters: basic principles and classification of air pollution, radiative transfer, atmospheric boundary layer, gas-phase chemistry, aerosols and multiphase processes, and chemistry transport models and numerical simulation, respectively.

The book starts with the basic principles of physics, chemistry and fluid mechanics, and is written in an understandable way for students. Through simple exercises and realistic problems (the answers are included) the state-of-the-science prevailing issues are investigated.

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This comprehensive volume, written by authoritative authors, deals with the basic science of urban air pollution in relation to the sources and concentrations, the atmospheric chemical and physical processes which determine those concentrations and lead to the formation of secondary pollutants by chemical reactions in the atmosphere.

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Indoor Air Quality and HVAC Systems is a practical guide for understanding the relationship between the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of HVAC systems and achieving indoor air quality (IAQ).The book describes the individual components of HVAC systems and the role each plays in maintaining good indoor air quality. It also identifies the techniques available for evaluating the performance characteristics of ventilation systems (including the use of carbon dioxide monitors and sulfur hexafluoride tracer testing equipment). Other topics discussed include the determination of pathways of air movement through buildings and understanding pressure relationships, ventilation effectiveness, and efficiency. The book concludes with an overview of sources of air contaminants to be concerned about when performing an IAQ evaluation. Indoor Air Quality and HVAC Systemsprovides critical information for industrial hygienists, HVAC contractors and engineers, and building owners and managers. ... Read more

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This book presents the latest research on the crucial issues and the standards necessary to assess, monitor and increase air quality. Particular emphasis is paid to problems related to urban air quality. ... Read more

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Essential for all HVAC design engineers and technicians, this book provides complete guidelines on the economical design, construction, and operation of Variable Air Volume (VAV) systems that can dramatically improve indoor air quality--and prevent ``sick building syndrome.'' Readers will find information on topics ranging from load estimation and calculation, architectural considerations, and system selection. . .to inspection, equipment protection, and air balancing and testing. Included are example of VAV systems, plus hands-on solutions to actual design problems. ... Read more

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Each year Americans take more than 300 million plane trips staffed by a total of some 70,000 flight attendants. The health and safety of these individuals are the focus of this volume from the Committee on Airliner Cabin Air Quality. The book examines such topics as cabin air quality, the health effects of reduced pressure and cosmic radiation, emergency procedures, regulations established by U.S. and foreign agencies, records on airline maintenance and operation procedures, and medical statistics on air travel. Numerous recommendations are presented, including a ban on smoking on all domestic commercial flights to lessen discomfort to passengers and crew, to eliminate the possibility of fire caused by cigarettes, and to bring the cabin air quality into line with established standards for other closed environments. ... Read more

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In this timely volume, scientists examine examine the physical,structural, and analytical chemistry of fuel combustion. Theircontributions also address the issue of combustion efficiency and howair quality can be protected or improved. Supported by numerousillustrations, this volume be appreciated by researchers and studentsworking in various areas of chemistry. ... Read more

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This proceeding is a collection of papers covering new ideas and innovative strategies for solving transportation related air quality problems. The topics include the difficulties, challenges, and improvements in the transportation conformity process; technical improvements to current travel demand models; travel reduction strategies; and applications of transportation control measures. Transportation planners and engineers, urban and regional planners, transportation consultants, and department of transportation affiliates will find the topics informative and useful. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Indoor Air Quality," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Indoor Air Quality in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Indoor Air Quality when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Indoor Air Quality, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This book presents the widely applicable information obtained during the planning and management of the collaborative regional air quality study known as the San Joaquin Valley Air Quality Study/Atmospheric Utility Signatures, Predictions, and Experiments (SJVAQS/AUSPEX). The extensive experience and knowledge gained during and after the study is clearly presented in this guide - an ideal working reference for developing regional and subregional air quality and meteorological field measurement and modeling studies. ... Read more