Air Quality Control

1 General Overview.- 1.1 Clean Air and Air Pollution.- 1.2 Historical Overview.- 1.3 Explanation of Terms.- 1.4. Bibliography.- 2 Origin and Sources of Air Pollution.- 2.1 Emission of Pollutants Caused by Combustion Processes.- 2.2 Sources of Air Pollutants.- 2.3 Bibliography.- 3 Air Pollutants in the Atmosphere.- 3.1 Meteorological Influences on the Dispersion of Air Pollutants.- 3.2 Chemical Transformations of Pollutants in the Atmosphere.- 3.3 Distribution and Temporal Development of Air Pollutants in Unpolluted and Polluted Areas.- 3.4 Models of Pollutant Dispersion.- 3.5 Bibliography.- 4 Effects of Air Pollution.- 4.1 General Considerations.- 4.2 Climatic Changes Caused by Atmospheric Trace Substances.- 4.3 Effects on Materials.- 4.4 Effects on Vegetation.- 4.5 Impact on Human Health.- 4.6 Ambient Air Guidelines and Standards.- 4.7 Bibliography.- 5 Measuring Techniques for Recording Air Pollutants.- 5.1 General Criteria.- 5.2 Measuring Methods for Gaseous Pollutants.- 5.3 Measuring Methods for Particulate Matter.- 5.4 Setting up of Measuring Equipment, Sampling Techniques and their Influences on the Accuracy of the Measurements.- 5.5 Calibration for Pollutant Measurements.- 5.6 Accuracy of Measuring Methods and Measuring Instruments.- 5.7 Bibliography.- 6 Evaluation of Air Pollution Measurements.- 6.1 Determination of Pollutant Emissions.- 6.2 Evaluation and Graphic Representation of Air Quality Measurements...- 6.3 Bibliography.- 7 Emission Control Technologies.- 7.1 General Considerations.- 7.2 Processes for the Removal of Particulate Matter from Exhaust Gases....- 7.3 Nitrogen Oxide Reduction in Combustion Processes.- 7.4 Flue Gas Desulfurization.- 7.5 Diagram of the Flue Gas Purification Units of a Power Plant.- 7.6 Present Situation of Flue Gas Purification inWest German Power Plants.- 7.7 Removal of Organic Substances from Flue Gases.- 7.8 Bibliography.- 8 Air Pollution Control Conventions, Laws and Regulations.- 8.1 International Conventions.- 8.2 EU Directives.- 8.3 National Laws and Regulations.- 8.4 Vehicle Exhaust Emissions.- 8.5 Bibliography.