Description
This book provides a fully comprehensive, rigorous and refreshing treatment of ‘Air Pollution and Control’ covering present day technology and developments. It covers various new topics like bioaerosols or aeroallergens and hazardous air pollutants including diesel exhaust and dioxins.
The book is intended to meet the requirements of (a) Undergraduate and postgraduate students of particularly Environmental and Mechanical Engineering and also other branches of Engineering, (b) Technologists, designers, operation and maintenance engineers of industries, electrical power plants, heat and power utilities, (c) Aspirants for competitive examinations of IAS, IES, IFS, PCS, and aspirants for various state and private technical services, etc. and (d)General readers interested in the field for better understanding and knowledge.
The book is divided into 20 chapters and presents enormous information covering all aspects of Air Pollution in various sectors relevant to Indian conditions. Each of the following chapters is followed by questions at the end based upon the text.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: Sources of Air Pollution and their Ill-effects.
Chapter 3: Effects of meteorological Conditions on Air Pollution.
Chapter 4: Control of Emission of Suspended Particulate Matter in Coal Fired Thermal power Stations.
Chapter 5: Control of Oxides of Nitrogen in Combustion of Fossil fuels in Power Generation and Industries.
Chapter 6: Control of Emission of Oxides of sulphur by Absorption Systems Internal to Boilers.
Chapter 7: Control of Emission of Oxides of sulphur (SOx) for Flue Gases of Boilers.
Chapter 8: Air Pollution from Industries and Their Control.
Chapter 9: Air Pollution in Petroleum Refineries.
Chapter 10: Control of Mercury Emission from Thermal Power Stations and Industries.
Chapter 11: Air Pollution by Nuclides / Radioactivity – Safety and Control.
Chapter 12: Air Pollution by Municipal Solid Wastes, Biomedical Wastes and E-Wastes and Their Control.
Chapter 13: Control of Air Pollution from Mobile Sources and Standards Applicable.
Chapter 14: Damage due to Air Pollution to Electronic / Electrical Equipments and protective Measures.
Chapter 15: Emission Limits Imposed by Indian regulations.
Chapter 16: Measurements of Air Pollutants.
Chapter 17: Control of Noise Pollution.
Chapter 18: Control of Odors.
Chapter 19: Environmental Impact Assessment for Projects.
Chapter 20: Miscellaneous Topics.
Author
Keshav Kant
Dr. Keshav Kant is a former Professor of Mechanical Engineering, I.I.T. Kanpur, who after superannuation from I.I.T. Kanpur in June 2005, served as professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering Department and later as the Director in a number of Private Engineering Colleges/ Institutes. He has three Monographs, five technical reports, 90 publications to his credit in National and International Journals and Proc. of National and International Conference.
Rajni Kant
Er. Rajni Kant, an Engineering Graduate from BHU in 1954, recieved an extensive training in the works of M/S Hitachi Ltd. Japan and also at large capacity power stations and projects of Georgia Power Company (USA). He has more than 50 years of experience to his credit in the aforesaid fields and has authored about 40 papers in various fields including Power Plant and Environmental Engineering which were published in National and International Journals and Proceeding of National and International Conferences.
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