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Maximize efficiency and minimize pollution: the breakthrough technology of high temperature air combustion (HiTAC) holds the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional combustion and allow engineers to finally meet this long-standing imperative. Research has shown that HiTAC technology can provide simultaneous reduction of CO2 and nitric oxide emissions and reduce energy consumption for a specific process or requirement.High Temperature Air Combustion: From Energy Conservation to Pollution Reduction provides the first comprehensive exposition of the principles and practice of HiTAC. With a careful balance of theory and practice, it reviews the historical background, clearly describes HiTAC combustion phenomena, and shows how to simulate and apply the technology for significant energy savings, reduced equipment size, and lower emissions. It offers design guidelines for high performance industrial furnaces, presents field trials of practical furnaces, and explores potential applications of HiTAC in other fields, including the conversion of solid waste fuels to cleaner fuels, stationary gas turbine engines, internal combustion engines, and other advanced energy-to-power conversion systems.Developed through an intensive research project sponsored by the Japanese government, HiTAC now promises to revolutionize our paradigm for using all kinds of fossil, alternative, waste, and derived fuels for energy conversion and utilization in industry. This book is your opportunity to understand its principles, learn about the technology, and begin to use it to the benefit of your application, your company, and the environment. ... Read more

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In these pages is all the information that you-manager, engineer, or other technical professional-would need to select, size, and estimate "budget/study" level capital and annual costs for a variety of air pollution control equipment. This equipment includes wet scrubbers, carbon adsorbers, and other "add-on" devices. This book also deals with such nonstack controls as wet dust suppression systems and flue gas desulfurization systems. The costs are current (1988 or 1989 dollars) and are mainly presented in equational form for ease of computerization and updating. Clear, comprehensive equipment sizing procedures are also detailed. Finally, several detailed example problems are included to illustrate the sizing and costing procedures. This book is not just for technical personnel, however. The material is easy to grasp and use. Anyone with an air pollution control background can follow and apply the procedures and data herein. Using this book, air pollution control professionals can now develop sound, defensible (within ±30%) cost estimates with a minimum of time and effort. ... Read more

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Examines the causes of atmospheric pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming and explains how these conditions affect our health and economic prosperity. ... Read more

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Great resource book!
I ordered this book for use in my chemistry classroom.I cover environmental chemistry, and this book covers almost all of the beginning-level air chemistry and environmental meteorology that I could ask for.It has heat islands, ground-level pollution, weather, and much more.Great as a resource book! ... Read more

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This handbook is an important and valuable source for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines pollution control. It provides an excellent updated review of available knowledge in this field and furnishes essential and useful information on air pollution constituents, mechanisms of formation, control technologies, effects of engine design, effects of operation conditions, and effects of fuel formulation and additives. The text is rich in explanatory diagrams, figures and tables, and includes a considerable number of references.

Key Features
* An important resource for engineers and researchers in the area of internal combustion engines and pollution control
* Presents and excellent updated review of the available knowledge in this area
* Written by 23 experts
* Provides over 700 references and more than 500 explanatory diagrams, figures and tables ... Read more

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Great book, precise, up-to-date
I haven't enjoyed a book as much as I enjoyed reading this book. it is extremely helpful and precise. I recommend it strongly. ... Read more

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The ultimate air pollution control problem-solver kit

Now you can solve virtually any air pollution control (APC) problem that comes your way--all you need is this hands-on guide. It's loaded with all the problem-solving tools, troubleshooting tips and advice you need to facilitate every aspect of APC management, design and regulatory compliance.

You get crystal-clear, step-by-step guidelines for designing and selecting APC equipment. . .specifying and purchasing APC systems. . .setting air pollution control policy. . .adhering to the Clean Air Amendments of 1990. . .maintaining compliance documentation. . .and much, much more. This is the one source to turn to for fast, accurate information on any of the major APC system technologies and methods--cyclones, media filtration, particulate scrubbing, electrostatic precipitators, absorption separators, thermal oxidizers, you name it! ... Read more

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Excellent and practical book for Air Quality Engineers
I have owned this book since publication.I am a practicing engineer who designs air quality control equipment and over 20 million dollars worth of equipment that I have designed is in use in industry.This book is one of two references that I rely upon to do my job ("Sources and Control of Air Pollution" by Heinsohn and Kabel being the other).The explanations are thorough and practical. The book is very well written and easy to read.

I and the engineers I work with call this "The Book of Warnings."The reason we do so is that it seems that every time we encounter something in our equipment design that is not behaving as expected we go into this book and learn what we did wrong -- that is, the warning was in this book and and we could have prevented the trouble if we had only paid closer attention to this text.

In summary, this is an awesome book that is both an educational tool and a very practical everyday reference for air quality control equipment design. ... Read more

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This collection includes thirty-six important recent works on the effects of pollutants on heritage sites, including thirty papers delivered to the Seville International Workshop on Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage in 2003, and six invited new additions. All papers have been written by a team of leading international contributors and are divided into five subject areas to cover the main topics of interest today.

This volume is aimed at archaeologists and molecular biologists as well as advanced students and researchers in the fields of biodeterioration, building materials, micro-organisms and cultural heritage. ... Read more

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*As many as 1 billion people, mostly women and children, are regularly exposed to indoor air pollution levels exceeding WHO guidelines by up to 100 times
*Nearly three-fifths of total global exposure to air pollutants occurs in the rural areas of developing countries. Worldwide, this translates into as many as 3 million deaths a year

At every level of economic development, ambient air pollution poses a serious challenge that cannot be left to the private initiative

This book addresses issues of particular importance to developing countries where polluting activities have been growing, but local research and preventive and protective measures are still at an early stage. Recent decades have seen considerable advances in the epidemiology of air pollution, changes in the international air pollution guidelines, and the emergence of more systematic approaches to air pollution prevention and control. There is an evident gap in the literature on air pollution and health; this book will fill this gap with a coherent series of chapters commissioned from leading researchers in both the scientific and policy dimensions of air pollution and health. ... Read more

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In the debate over pollution control, the price of pollution is a key issue. But which is more costly: clean up or prevention? From regulations to technology selection to equipment design, Air Pollution Control Technology Handbook serves as a single source of information on commonly used air pollution control technology. It covers environmental regulations and their history, process design, the cost of air pollution control equipment, and methods of designing equipment for control of gaseous pollutants and particulate matter. This book covers how to:·Review alternative design methods·Select methods for control·Evaluate the costs of control equipment·Examine equipment proposals from vendorsWith its comprehensive coverage of air pollution control processes, the Air Pollution Control Technology Handbook is a detailed reference for the practicing engineer who prepares the basic process engineering and cost estimation required for the design of an air pollution control system. It discusses the topics in depth so that you can apply the methods and equations presented and proceed with equipment design. ... Read more

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Good literature review, very dated absorption technology
The review of the Clean Air Act is well done. Absorption tower examples are very dated - saddles are stated to be the preferred tower packing, so the tower designed is grossly oversized with enormous pressure drop compared to what is possible with a modern packing. If you need a reference work with practical examples to pollution control towers keep looking.

Air Pollution Control Technology Handbook
If you need a reference work that summarizes the Clean Air Act then this is a good source. It is also has technically sound theoretical explanations of air pollution control. However it is a poor source if you seek suggestions for any type of current air pollution control project. The examples in the text are extremely dated and hence grossly oversized. The authors recommend that saddles be used to pack towers and then design the tower to have over 40 ft of packing. As a result their towers are much to big, much too tall and have enormously high pressure drop. Unfortunately the authors ignore (or are simply unaware of) several generations of mass transfer packing development that allow for much more practical and far less costly designs than per their examples. ... Read more

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This book collates the written contributions of the Second Conference on Air Pollution Modelling and Simulation (APMS 2001). A wide range of current topics is covered, focusing on three challenging issues: (1) the modelling issue of complex, multiphase, atmospheric chemistry; (2) the numerical issue associated with comprehensive three-dimensional chemistry-transport models; and (3) the key issues of data assimilation and inverse modelling. State-of-the art research is presented with many operational procedures applied at either forecast agencies or companies. ... Read more

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The only single-source reference available on atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and atmospheric models

This fully revised and expanded version of John H. Seinfeld's successful Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution provides a rigorous, comprehensive treatment of the chemistry of the atmosphere. With new chapters on such important topics as cloud physics, nucleation, and wet deposition, this book offers a truly up-to-date examination of atmospheric chemistry today, including:
* Chemistry of the stratosphere and troposphere
* Formation, growth, dynamics, thermodynamics, and properties of aerosols
* Meteorology of air pollution
* Transport, diffusion, and removal of species in the atmosphere
* Formation and chemistry of clouds
* Interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate
* Radiative and climatic effects of gases and particles
* Formulation of mathematical chemical/transport models of the atmosphere.

Complete with solved examples, problems graded according to difficulty, and hundreds of illustrations, this state-of-the art reference is an ideal resource for both students and professionals in all areas of engineering as well as atmospheric science. ... Read more

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Excellent and comprehensive text
Paced teaching from beginning to end. Excellent references to quoted material for further reading. Seminal text of our time.

Too many typos
It may be the so-called Bible of atmospheric science, but there are too many typos for my taste. Perhaps if you're just trying to remember what the proper equation is, it'd work better.

Tables of values are frequently missing minus signs here and there, which can make working out the problems and/or examples difficult. There are other random typos that make examples simply not work out. If you just want the equations, this is ok, but for learning, it's actually easier when the typos are in the equations (and not the numbers), since in that case there's a "thought trail" of sorts.

The book claims to be the only reference, in which case you haven't got much choice, but that doesn't make it good.

The Bible
As if this needs a review...its a bible for atomspheric scientists of all genre.A must have.Especially good for any grad student preparing for the random question during an oral exam.Not that you could read the thing cover to cover, but there is something for everyone.

If you need a great reference, then this is it. If you are not sure you should buy one of the best references for atomsopheric chemistry and physics, then there is no reason to.That's just a sign that you probably don't need it.

Everything you need to know about Atmospheric Science
This book has it all.If you are in the field of atmospheric sciences, it is a muct have.If you're not in the field, but are interested in learning about atmospheric science, I'd highly recommend it.It's a technical book,with plenty of math, but it is written in an engaging, easy to read format. It's packed with information on eveything from tropospheric ozoneformation to industruial plume dispersion modeling.It has everything youneed to know about atmospheric science. ... Read more

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“By uncovering some of the hidden facts of the famous London ‘fog’ of 1952, in (which) more than 4,000 people died, he (William Wise) dramatizes our own acute problems.”
—Rollene W. Saal, Saturday Review

“A distinct contribution to public understanding of the air pollution problem. A thorough and fascinating job of inquiry.”
—Gladwin Hill, The New York Times

“It takes only a few hours to read this chiller; I recommend that you do so.”
—Medical Record News

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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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Developed from a short course taught at Leeds University, thisbook covers methods of monitoring emissions of air pollutants fromstationary sources. It surveys the techniques and points out theiradvantages and disadvantages. ... Read more

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Planning and evaluating air pollution control strategies is a difficult and demanding task requiring the application of the most advanced technical and computational resources that are available to the analyst. In this book, an economist applies the powerful tool of linear programming to develop a model that can be used by policy makers seeking to achieve specific goals in air pollution abatement. The author has implemented his model using engineering, meteorological, industrial, and pollution data taken from the St. Louis airshed. ... 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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Offers comprehensive coverage of the indoor environment-integrating health and building science and presenting a variety of viewpoints from diverse disciplines, including allergy, toxicology, oncology, environmental science, building engineering, and law. Examines critical issues that affect air quality from a source standpoint, such as biologic agents, pesticides, tobacco smoke, solvents, combustion products, volatile organic compounds, indoor allergens, and radon. ... Read more

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Delivery charges not informed before hand
We had to pay 7.20Euros to pick the book from post office here in Italy.We were not informed about these charges earlier.The book was in excellent condition as told by the seller.Thanks ... Read more

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This volume is the latest in a series of proceedingsdatingback to 1971. The book addresses the problem of air pollution andreports the latest findings and developments in air pollutionmodeling, from a truly international list of contributors. ... Read more