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Paper IV: Air Pollution Monitoring and Management
• Chemistry of troposphere
• Atmospheric boundary layers
• Factors affecting concentration of pollutants
• Transport and dispersion of air pollutants
- Atmospheric stability
- Plume Behavior
- Wind Rose Diagrams
Ambient Air
· Major ambient air pollutants sources
· Effects of air pollutants on human health, vegetation and buildings
· Components of air pollutants
o PM10, PM2.5 and PM1.0
o Oxides of Sulphur and Nitrogen
o Volatile organic compounds
· Hydrocarbons
Indoor Air
· Major types of indoor air pollutants
· Inhalation exposure of air pollutants
· Effect of different ventilation pattern on indoor air quality
· Indoor vs ambient air pollution
Health effects of major indoor air pollutants (Volatile organic compounds, ozone, suphur oxide,nitrogen oxides
· Air pollution monitoring
o Consideration while monitoring indoor and ambient air
· Samplers for measurement of air pollutants: Principle and working
o High volume sampler
o PM2.5 and PM1 sampler
o VOC Sampler
· Methods of gaseous sampling and analysis
o Nitrogen oxides
o Sulphur oxide
o Ozone
Ammonia
- Airborne Pathogens
- Aeromicrobiology Pathways (AMB)
- Bioaerosols
- Sampling devices for collection of Bioaerosols
· Control of Particulate pollution
o Cyclones
o Electrostatic precipitators
o Bag houses
o Scrubbers
· Control of gaseous pollutants
o Absorption
o Adsorption
- Atmosphere, Weather and Climate R.J. Barry and R.G. Chorley (Methuen Publication).
- An Introduction to Meteorology by S. Pettersen (McGraw-Hill Book Company).
- Elements of meteorology by Miller, Thompson and Paterson (Pearson Education).
- Tropical Meteorology by T.N. Krishnamurthy (Springer).
- Environmental Microbiology, Raina M. Maier, Ian L. Pepper, Charles P. Gerba (Academic Press).
