Fundamentals of Air Pollution

by Daniel Vallero

Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0123736153

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Book Description

Fundamentals of Air Pollution is an important and widely used textbook in the environmental science and engineering community. Written shortly after the passage of the seminal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the third edition was quite timely. Surprisingly, the text has remained relevant for university professors, engineers, scientists, policy makers and students up to recent years. However, in light of the transition in the last five years from predominantly technology-based standards (maximum achievable control technologies or MACTs) to risk-based regulations and air quality standards, the text must be updated significantly.

The fourth edition will be updated to include numerous MACTs which were not foreseen during the writing of the third edition, such as secondary lead (Pb) smelting, petroleum refining, aerospace manufacturing, marine vessel loading, ship building, printing and publishing, elastomer production, offsite waste operations, and polyethylene terephthalate polymer and styrene-based thermoplastic polymers production.

• Focuses on the process of risk assessment, management and communication, the key to the study of air pollution.
• Provides the latest information on the technological breakthroughs in environmental engineering since last edition
• Updated information on computational and diagnostic and operational tools that have emerged in recent years.

About the Author

Dan Vallero is an internationally recognized expert in the transport, chemical transformation and environmental fate of hazardous pollutants. His three decades of professional experience in hazardous waste engineering and management have included research, teaching and regulatory advice related to a wide range of human health risk and ecological issues, from global climate change to the release of hazardous products of incomplete combustion from waste incinerators to the assessment of the risks from exposures to environmental endocrine disruptors.

Dr. Vallero recently established the Engineering Ethics program at Duke University. This innovative program introduces students to the complex relationships between science, technology and societal demands on the engineer. The lessons learned from the cases in this book are a fundamental part of Duke's preparation of its future engineers to address the ethical dilemmas likely to be encountered during the careers of the next generation engineers.

Customer Reviews

This book covers a lot of information about the air pollution world. I used it for a graduate class and found it very helpful. We covered almost the entire book in one semester, but I would suggest breaking it up into 2. Technically intensive.

This embodies what more textbooks should seeking to base their models on. Vallero tones down the level of overwhelming yet often pointless details found in many textbooks, yet does so without compromising the text's effectiveness in conveying the subject matter. The result is a relatively succinct and surprisingly engaging text that does not see the reader bogged down in minutia, one which students will find far more pleasant to read yet also is also informative.