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One of several very good IAQ primers
The function of an IAQ primer is to give a reader a sense of the field, without losing any of the depth of the various topic areas.This book does that. Only reason that it does not rate a 5 star rating is that it is now 12 years old, and some of the data is now, well, dated.
The contributors include a few of the current well-respected researchers (besides the editiors Samet and Spengler) including Harriet Burge in Chapter 12 (Indoor Air Pollution and Infectious Diseases) and Bill Cain in Chapter 6(Environmental Tobacco Smoke).
This is still a valuable basic text that helps to give one a nice overview of the complexities of indoor air quality investigation, without as I mentioned above, sacrificing the detail. ... Read more

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of major air pollution issues. It begins with an introduction to the basic atmospheric chemistry and the history of discovery of chemicals in the atmosphere, and then moves on to a discussion of the evolution of the earth's atmosphere, and the structure and composition of the present-day atmosphere. It also offers a comprehensive and accessible discussion of the five major atmospheric pollution topics: urban outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution, acid deposition, stratospheric ozone reduction, and global climate change. ... Read more

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Excellent Primer and Reference on Air Pollution
Atmospheric Pollution is an excellent primer and reference on air pollution and air quality issues facing the world today.Written essentially as a textbook, nevertheless, it is highly readable and a good, basic, factual overview of the pollutants, pollutant processes, laws and regulations, and current issues in air quality protection. ... Read more

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Indoor Air Pollution: Radon, Bioaerosols, and VOCs covers the most current aspects of indoor pollution research, including vitally important topics such as radon, bioaerosols, and volatile organic compounds. The book presents information on microbial contamination abatement, chemical characterization of air samples, sick building syndrome, biological pollutants, liability of indoor air pollution, and measurement and control of radon. Industrial hygienists, toxicologists, safety officers, and engineers in industry and academia should consider this book a "must read" selection. ... Read more

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The objectives of this engineering textbook are to (1) provide a thorough understanding of natural and anthropogenic sources of air pollution and (2) introduce ways that pollution can be prevented or minimized by the application of pollution control practices.Control practices are described by mass and energy balances that relate removal efficiency to process input parameters. Presented in this way, future engineers can alter the design and operation of industrial processes to minimize the emission of pollutants rather than focusing solely on the capture of pollutants after they are generated. ... Read more

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Wonderful and Practical Text for Air Quality Engineers
I am an air quality control equipment designer.I have used this book for 10 years as one of my primary references.The text is an excellent blend of theory and practical information.This book should be on the shelf of anyone who designs, sells, services, or buys air quality control equipment.There is practical design information you can get no where else.The section on adsorption is especially useful to me and is wonderfully written. I can not think of a more important book for air quality control engineers to buy, read and re-read. ... Read more

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A panel of respected air pollution control educators and practicing professionals critically survey the both principles and practices underlying control processes, and illustrate these with a host of detailed design examples for practicing engineers. The authors discuss the performance, potential, and limitations of the major control processes-including fabric filtration, cyclones, electrostatic precipitation, wet and dry scrubbing, and condensation-as a basis for intelligent planning of abatement systems,. Additional chapters critically examine flare processes, thermal oxidation, catalytic oxidation, gas-phase activated carbon adsorption, and gas-phase biofiltration. The contributors detail the Best Available Technologies (BAT) for air pollution control and provide cost data, examples, theoretical explanations, and engineering methods for the design, installation, and operation of air pollution process equipment. Methods of practical design calculation are illustrated by numerous numerical calculations. ... Read more

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too expensive
Upon receiving this book, I feel a little disappointed. I admit it is a first sight impression, but apparently the book provide litlle more than basic principles and ecuations. At this price, I spected something more. I do not mean is a bad book but, be warned, surely you can get the same information from a cheaper source. ... Read more

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Air pollution is recognized as one of the leading contributors to the global environmental burden of disease, even in countries with relatively low concentrations of air pollution. Air Pollution: Health and Environmental Impacts examines the effect of this complex problem on human health and the environment in different settings around the world. It not only covers general modeling, monitoring, and characterization techniques but also includes field studies and cases that offer valuable insight into region-specific issues.

With contributions from a distinguished group of international experts, the book explores ways of controlling air pollution and mitigating its adverse effects on human health and the environment. Often taking a regional and global perspective, it discusses the monitoring and source characterization of air pollution, the theory and application of air quality modeling, health effects and risk assessment, and the environmental impacts of air pollution. The book also addresses air quality management and relevant policy issues.

Along with providing an understanding of the scientific basis of air pollution, this volume helps readers better appreciate social and environmental determinants of public health and apply country-based research evidence to reduce health disparities and environmental inequalities. It also encourages future research and policy action on the health and environmental consequences of air pollution from the local to global level.

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Written as a textbook as well as a reference, the authors provide a treatment of the chemistry of the atmosphere. Some of the elements covered are: formation; growth; dynamics; meteorology of air pollution; the interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate; and the radiative and climatic effects of gases and particles. ... Read more

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Since its discovery in early 1900, turbulence has been an interesting and complex area of study. Written by international experts, Air Pollution and Turbulence: Modeling and Applications presents advanced techniques for modeling turbulence, with a special focus on air pollution applications, including pollutant dispersion and inverse problems. The book’s foreword was written by specialists in the field, including the Professor Sergej Zilitinkevich. Offering innovative atmospheric mathematical modeling methods, which can also be applied to other disciplines, the book includes:

• Discussions on the effects of soot and diesel particulates on building surfaces and human health
• Observational studies of convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) over pastures and forests in Amazonia
• Theoretical studies of turbulence and turbulent transport modeling of contaminants during the decaying of a ABL convective
• The parameterization of convective turbulence and clouds in atmospheric models based on the combination of the eddy-diffusivity and mass-flux approaches
• Analytical solutions to the advection-diffusion equation and analytical models for air pollution, including those for low wind conditions
• Analytical solutions to the advection-diffusion equation using the Generalized Integral Laplace Transform Technique (GILTT) and the decomposition method
• Lagrangian stochastic dispersion models with applications for airborne dispersion in the ABL
• Atmospheric dispersion with Large Eddy Simulation (LES) using the Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches
• Modeling of photochemical air pollution for better air quality management
• Analysis of the transport of a trace gas (CO₂) at the global scale and overviews of the inverse-problem techniques for deducing emissions from known concentrations

The book provides a solid theoretical understanding of turbulence and includes cases studies that illustrate subjects related to environmental sciences and environmental modeling. It reflects and summarizes recent developments in key areas of modeling atmospheric turbulence and air pollution. It pulls together information on techniques and methods used on turbulence, air pollution, and applications. While these topics are often covered separately, this book’s combined coverage of all three areas sets it apart.

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The chapters in this book present a snapshot of the state of knowledge of air pollution effects at the beginning of the 21st century.From their different disciplines, a distinguished collection of authors document their understanding of how leaves, trees, and forests respond to air pollutants and climate change.Scenarios of global change and air pollution are described.The authors describe responses of forests to climate variability, tropospheric ozone, rising atmospheric CO2, the combination of CO2 and ozone, and deposition of acidic compounds and heavy metals.The responses to ozone receive particular attention because of increasing concern about its damaging effects and increasing concentrations in rural areas.Scaling issues are addressed - from leaves to trees, from juvenile trees to mature trees, from short-term responses to long-term responses, and from small-scale experiments and observations to large-scale forest ecosystems.

This book is one major product of a conference sponsored by the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, the USDA Forest Service Global Change Northern Stations Program, the Arthur Ross Foundation, NCASI, the Canadian Forest Service, and Michigan Technological University. The conference, held in May 2000 in Houghton, Michigan, USA, was appropriately titled "Air Pollution, Global Change, and Forests in the New Millennium".The Editors, David Karnosky, Kevin Percy, Art Chappelka, Caroline Simpson, and Janet Pikkarainen organized the conference and edited this book.

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Ozone-destroying chemicals, greenhouse gases, and dangerous airborne substances that were once thought to be benign are the most urgent issues facing air pollution control experts. Students need a thorough, updated reference that explores these current trends while also covering the fundamental concepts of this emerging discipline. A new revision of a bestseller, Air Quality, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview air quality issues, including a better understanding of atmospheric chemistry, the effects of pollution on public health and the environment, and the technology and regulatory practices used to achieve air quality goals.New sections cover toxicological principles and risk assessment. The book also contains revised discussions on public policy concerns, with a focus on air quality standards for ozone depletion and global warming, and the health effects of particulate air pollutants.This edition continues to serve as a very readable text for advanced level undergraduate and early graduate study in environmental science, environmental management, and in programs related to the study of public health, industrial hygiene, and pollution control. ... Read more

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Good Air Quality Primer, Seconded
The review I was going to write is almost exactly like the first review posted giving it 4 stars, so I will just second everything mentioned.Good air quality primer for the environmental professional, but if you are already an air quality scientist or specialist, you may find it a little basic.Excellent overall quality and information on all the air quality issues affecting North America today.

Good Air Quality Primer
This book provides a good foundation in air quality issues bringing together the basic meteorology, chemistry, biology, and political/regulatory information needed to understand the field. The book assumes some basic science background but Godish presents technical information clearly enough for environmental managers and nontechnical professionals to get a basic understanding of air quality issues. Godish could make the book more accessable to introductory students by spending more time defining and explaining some of the technical terminology in the book. As it is, some students may have to spend more time with the dictionary than they are used to. Air quality professionals will find this book a good refresher but those looking for a technically advanced book should look elsewhere. The treatment of regulatory issues emphasizes the US. Non-americans will still benefit from the bulk of the book. For an introductory student looking for a start in the field, I would give the book 4 stars, for an environmental manager looking to gain a better understanding of air quality or an air quality professional looking for a good refresher, I would give the book five stars, for an air quality professional looking for a technical reference, I would give the book 2 to 3 stars. ... Read more

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Biotechnology offers one of the most economical and environmentally benign methods of air pollution control for industrial and municipal airstreams. Volatile organic and inorganic odorous compounds from various industries are emitted in large quantities and create hazards to the ecosystem and health effects to humans. Thus, the demand for odor and air pollution control systems that provide nuisance-free, breathable air is constantly growing.

An international board of authors from universities, research institutes, and industries describe various biotechnological methods ranging from laboratory, to pilot evaluation and to full-scale process implementation. Topics include bioprocesses for the treatment of odors and air pollutants in wastewater treatment plants, rendering plants, chemical production facilities, and food and flavor manufacturing facilities. In addition to the basic microbiological and engineering aspects, the design, modeling and control of bioreactors are also presented.

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This Handbook provides a concise overview of the latest technologies for managing industrial air pollution in petrochemical, oil and gas, and allied industries.Detailed material on equipment selection, sizing, and troubleshooting operations is provided along with practical design methodology.Unique to this volume are discussions and information on energy-efficient technologies and approaches to implementing environmental cost accounting measures.

Included in the text are sidebar discussions, questions for thinking and discussing, recommended resources for the reader (including Web sites), and a comprehensive glossary.

The Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control also includes free access to US EPA's air dispersion model SCREEN3. Detailed examples on the application of this important software to analyzing air dispersion from industrial processes and point sources are provided in the Handbook, along with approaches to applying this important tool in developing approaches to pollution prevention and in selecting control technologies. SCREEN3 can be downloaded from a Butterworth-Heinemann Web site.

By applying SCREEN3, along with the examples given in the Handbook, the user can:evaluate the impact of processes and operations to air quality, and apply the model to assess emergency scenarios to help in planning, to develop environmental impact assessments, to select pollution control technologies, and to develop strategies for pollution prevention.

Two companion books by Cheremisinoff are available:
Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies, and Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies.

Uniquely combines prevention and control concepts while covering the practices and technologies that are applied to the prevention of air pollution in the chemicals manufacturing, oil and gas, iron and steel, and pharmaceutical industries, and to the cleaning and control of industrial air emissions.Provides a bridge for today's environmental manager by focusing on an integrated approach to managing air pollution problems within industrial operations.Shows you how to calculate financial returns from pollution prevention projects, and is linked to a free, downloadable EPA air dispersion model that can be used to predict and assist in evaluating the impact of pollutants on the environment and populated areas. ... Read more

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Since its discovery in early 1900, turbulence has been an interesting and complex area of study. Written by international experts, Air Pollution and Turbulence: Modeling and Applications presents advanced techniques for modeling turbulence, with a special focus on air pollution applications, including pollutant dispersion and inverse problems. The book’s foreword was written by specialists in the field, including the Professor Sergej Zilitinkevich. Offering innovative atmospheric mathematical modeling methods, which can also be applied to other disciplines, the book includes:

• Discussions on the effects of soot and diesel particulates on building surfaces and human health
• Observational studies of convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) over pastures and forests in Amazonia
• Theoretical studies of turbulence and turbulent transport modeling of contaminants during the decaying of a ABL convective
• The parameterization of convective turbulence and clouds in atmospheric models based on the combination of the eddy-diffusivity and mass-flux approaches
• Analytical solutions to the advection-diffusion equation and analytical models for air pollution, including those for low wind conditions
• Analytical solutions to the advection-diffusion equation using the Generalized Integral Laplace Transform Technique (GILTT) and the decomposition method
• Lagrangian stochastic dispersion models with applications for airborne dispersion in the ABL
• Atmospheric dispersion with Large Eddy Simulation (LES) using the Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches
• Modeling of photochemical air pollution for better air quality management
• Analysis of the transport of a trace gas (CO₂) at the global scale and overviews of the inverse-problem techniques for deducing emissions from known concentrations

The book provides a solid theoretical understanding of turbulence and includes cases studies that illustrate subjects related to environmental sciences and environmental modeling. It reflects and summarizes recent developments in key areas of modeling atmospheric turbulence and air pollution. It pulls together information on techniques and methods used on turbulence, air pollution, and applications. While these topics are often covered separately, this book’s combined coverage of all three areas sets it apart.

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This book demonstrates that Washington, D.C.'s 30-year regulatory war against air pollution has done little to improve air quality. ... Read more

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Critique By Data Analysis
From Environmental History, Vol. 6, No. 2, (April 2001), at 316.

It has become common practice among environmental advocates to use history to justify their policy positions.In keeping with its title, Clearing the Air is an attempt to set the record straight about the war against air pollution.Goklany argues that it is wrong to give the federal Clean Air Act credit for recent improvement in air quality, since historical data show that per capita emissions of SO2, VOC, NOx, CO and PM, as well as urban smoke concentrations, had peaked and were in decline long before Congress passed the modern form of the Act in 1970. To Goklany this indicates that federal legislation was unnecessary, since natural forces would have reduced emissions anyway.

If the federal program was not responsible for cleaner air, then what was?Goklany attributes the improvement to a societal mechanism he calls "the environmental transition."Over the long term, emissions of a pollutant will increase to the point at which its harmfulness becomes recognized, then the problem is addressed and the pollutant starts to decline.Goklany explains this phenomenon to be a function principally of wealth and technology:as affluence and technological sophistication increase, the human desire to improve living standards causes pollution problems to be addressed.

While policy advocates use history to score points, historians should judge such accounts not by their utility but by the quality of their scholarship.While the book presents a strong historical narrative in its first chapter, summarizing the history of air pollution and its control, thereafter the book addresses historical issues almost entirely through data analysis.This is an original contribution, but it has certain shortcomings.

First, in the absence of a fuller historical treatment the data by itself only suggests a range of interpretations.Since the effects (i.e., the development of modern environmental institutions) could have resulted from a number of causes, a statistical approach does not provide a way to reason back from an observed effect to any specific antecedent as its cause.To find the drivers of the environmental transition, one needs to know specifically what decision-makers actually considered.This is the problem:much of the argument is made by inference rather than by evidence. One welcomes a better statistical account of the history, but the account is incomplete without the details.

A second general concern is that Clearing the Air fails to make a clear distinction between traditional smoke and modern air pollution problems.The inquisitive reader would stop there and ask, "If emissions had peaked, why would Congress establish a new federal program to control emissions that were already being adequately controlled?"Two alternative explanations come to mind.(1) One might conclude, as Goklany has, that Congress was simply mistaken.But isn't it also plausible that Congress was motivated in 1970 not by a desire to fix pollution problems that were already being solved but to address problems that were not?And there were in fact unsolved problems regarding modern air pollution that the Act addressed, such as lead and other auto emissions.Thus, while the Act gained jurisdiction over the pollutants that were already subject to state regulation in order to create a comprehensive national program, the regulatory approach applied throughout reflects Congress' concern for the distinctly modern pollution problems that were believed to be out of control.This explanation is compatible with the finding that some of the traditional pollutants had already leveled off or declined.(2) It may be that ambient concentrations had not peaked yet, since we can never know the counterfactual scenario.Were it not for the federal Act, the modern air pollution problems might have gotten much worse than they already were.It is logically circular to argue that the Act was useless because pollution did not get worse, since the Act had a role in making sure it did not get worse.Because the book's argument relies on a comparison to the counterfactual scenario, that argument can be neither proved nor disproved.

Third, while Clearing the Air claims that because of the environmental transition the pre-existing forces would have reduced emissions without federal regulation, it never makes clear whether the reduced emissions prior to 1970 resulted from market forces or from regulation.The book points to advancement of technology as the principal remedy in the environmental transition, but not by what means that technology appeared.

While Clearing the Air makes a solid contribution to the literature, a more modest title would have been preferable.With its argument based almost entirely on interpretation of data that represent more traditional than modern air pollution problems, this book's findings, for all their technical merit, cannot be considered established as generally applicable principles.

Reviewed by Alan P. Loeb, formerly a senior attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency.Mr. Loeb now practices law in Washington, D.C., and is a visiting professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland.

An outstanding environmental issue history.
In Clearing The Air, Indur Goklany (formerly chief of the technical assessment division of the National Commission on Air Quality and a consultant in the Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation at the Environmental Protection Agency) explains how it came to pass thatAmerica's air quality is better today than ever before in modern history --and continues to steadily improve. Goklany draws upon a painstakingcompilation of long-term empirical data to challenge the conventionalwisdom that credits federal regulation with this history improvement of airquality. Clearing The Air shows that the air had been getting cleaner priorto federalization because states and localities had taken steps to clean itup. Goklany's data authoritatively refutes the argument that state andlocal inaction compelled the federal government to get involved. He alsoargues persuasively that improved technology and the shift from amanufacturing-based to a service-based economy have contributed to improvedair quality. Clearing The Air is an invaluable, documented, highlyrecommended contribution toward a proper understanding of the political,technological, and environmental issues involved with today's improved airquality across the country. ... Read more

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The topic of Positional Responses in Lichen Transplant Biomonitoring of Trace Element Air Pollution is the (bio)monitoring of (trace) element air pollution, with the attention focused on used techniques and selected approaches. Lichens are used in all experiments, and elemental analyses are performed by nuclear multi-elements techniques. This book is focused on lichen transplants aspects, aiming predominantly at transplant vitality, the effects of the positioning of the transplants used and on analytical aspects, thereby concentrating on aspects of comparative PIXE and INAA. The work consists of four parts (divided in six chapters): the first part is dedicated to elemental analysis, the second is about viability and vitality of lichens, the third is focused on possible set-ups in transplant monitoring and the fourth is a transplant case study in an industrialized region, aimed at the recognition of emission source profiles of industrial sources and possible differentiation between selected positioning, but variable in wind-directional exposure.

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Written by an illustrious group of experts in microbiology and aerobiology, Bioaerosols brings together current information on the nature and health effects of bioaerosol-related problems. The book presents up-to-date coverage of methods for sampling and analysis, as well as various approaches to the investigation of health problems caused by exposure to biological contaminants in indoor air. Its comprehensive treatment of the various aspects of this subject makes it a valuable reference for industrial hygienists, public health officials and researchers, and physicians interested in environmentally caused disease. ... Read more