 | Name: | Air Pollution Chemistry |
| No.: | 822007Y |
| Hour: | 40 | Credit: | 2 |
| Instructor: | ZHANG Yang |
| Course Description: |
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| Air pollution is the presence in the atmosphere of any substance at a concentration great enough to produce an undesirable effect on humans, animals, vegetation, or materials, or to significantly alter the natural balance of any ecosystem. Air pollutants can be solids, liquids, or gases, and can have local, regional, and global impacts.
This 40 hour course aims at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in atmosphere, with particular emphasis on the source, migration, transformation and fate of pollutants. By the end of course, students will gain advanced understanding of the environmental issues such as photochemical smog, acid precipitation, stratospheric ozone depletion, and global climate change. The course will be a mixture of lecture, directed readings and classroom exercises. Exam will be taken at the end of course. Students will gain scores consist of the scores of their homework, a critical review and the final exam. |
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1. TANG Xiaoyan, ZHANG Yuanhang and SHAO Min, Atmospheric Environmental Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Higher Education Press, Beijing 2006.
2. Seinfeld and John H., Atmospheric chemistry and physics of air pollution, Wiley, 1986. |
