Ambient air pollution | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Ambient air pollution (17.Z481)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Environmental Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Environment Protection Engineering
ECTS	7

Introducing students of environmental engineering with the basic principles and laws of chemistry of the atmosphere, sources and fate of pollutants in the air.

Acquiring fundamental knowledge of the chemistry of air pollution and the phenomenon of degradation and the transformation processes in the atmosphere.

The atmosphere layers and main constituents. Air pollutants and their properties. A global picture of organic and inorganic air pollutants – occurrence, physico-chemical properties, persistence, bioaccumulation. Air pollutants sources – natural and anthropogenic, stationary and mobile. Transport and transformation processes. Atmospheric chemistry. Equilibrium partition coefficients. Multimedia models. Air pollution and climate change. Overview of environmental air policies. Pollution monitoring networks.

Lectures. Laboratory and calculation exercises. Consultations - individual and collective. During the semester, students are obliged to attend lectures and exercises, to pass colloquiums in a number of experimental exercises and to do a term paper. After successfully realized examination prerequisites, students take the final exam which consists of practical and oral part.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Davis, M.L., Masten, S.J.	Principles of Environmental Engineering and Science	2004	McGraw-Hill, New York	English
Colls J.	Air Pollution, elektronsko izdanje	2002	Taylor and Francis group	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Practical part of the exam - tasks	No	Yes	40.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00