SPH 832: Environmental Monitoring Techniques

Course Content

• Toxic hazards/pollutants
  • Types of pollutants
  • Sources of pollutants – primary (direct emission), secondary (photochemical, nuclear and other processes), wind and turbulence, resuspension
  • Dispersion of pollutants – diffusion, convention, advection
  • Sinks – modelling, mass balance equation, laws of conservation of mass, energy balance
  • Radiation
  • Global atmospheric change – greenhouse effect, global warming, potential effects of global warming
• Particles and radiation
• Health effects of pollutants
• Sampling; methods measurements and sources of errors.
• Techniques of measurements:
  • Spectrometry- absorption, differential absorption
  • Nuclear/ and radioanalytical technics
  • solid state sensors.
  • interferometry
  • Remote monitoring techniques: Lidar equation, long path, Remote monitoring systems: discontinuous and continuous.
• Standard for calibration.
• Statistics of monitoring and evaluation

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