Course10510649153 lectures
Indoor Air Pollution: Sources, Effects, Monitoring, Control and Modeling
Prof. Asif Qureshi · IIT Hyderabad
About
Air pollution is a very serious problem. While most courses target outdoor air pollution, this course will focus on Indoor Air Pollution, a very important current topic. Course will cover the types of indoor air pollutants, sources of these pollutants, their effects, measures for control, and indoor air quality modeling.
Intended audience: Students (PG and senior UG).Working professionals in field of environmental engineering and air pollution, and its control.Junior scientists and engineers of pollution control boards.Non-engineering background executives of private industries dealing with air pollution and its control.Non-engineering background executives from governmental agencies such as pollution control boards and other state/national bodies, those who are dealing with or are interested in air pollution and its control.Senior level scientistsRegulators and policy makers from ministry and other professional and governmental bodies.
Prerequisites: Basic physics, chemistry, mathematics (class 10 to 12 level)
Lectures
Week 1
- Introduction and Common Air Pollutants
- Sources of indoor air pollutants -1
- Sources of indoor air pollutants - 2
- Sources of indoor air pollutants - 3
- Methods to estimate emissions
Week 2
- Mass balance
- Mass balance Simple Examples
- Residence times and Fractional losses
- Multi-room (multi-box) models
- Examples
Week 3
- Outdoor air as source to indoor air. Introduction
- Outdoor air as source to indoor air. Infiltration, health
- Indoor-Outdoor relationship
- Air exchange and ventilation rates
- Health-based ventialtion framework
Week 4
- Aerosol basics
- Aerosol deposition
- Coagulation, condensation and evaporation processes
- Aerosol sources and aerosol properties
Week 5
- Indoor air chemistry; basics of chemical kinetics
- Indoor air chemistry: some key reactions
- Surface reactions
- Examples
Week 6
- Bioaerosols in the Indoor Atmosphere: Introduction
- Bioaerosols in the Indoor Atmosphere: Sources
- Indoor bioaerosols and health impacts
- Environmental factors and bioaerosols
Week 7
- Indoor air exposure risk assessment - principles
- Calculation of daily dose
- TIme-activity and inhalation risk assessment
- Examples
Week 8
- Indoor air pollution monitoring of physico-chemical pollutants: Introduction and sampling methods
- Indoor air pollution sampling and instruments
- Indoor air pollutants analysis - 1
- Indoor air pollutants analysis - 2
Week 9
- Indoor bioaerosol sampling methods -1
- Indoor bioaerosol sampling methods -2
- Methods for bioaerosol analysis - 1
- Methods for bioaerosol analysis - 2
- Guest lecture: Case study on comparison of two methdos for indoor bioaerosol sampling and analysis
Week 10
- Indoor Air Pollution/Quality in the Indian Context
- Indoor Air Quality in India - Case studies - 1
- Indoor Air Quality in India - Case studies - 2
- Guest lecture: Case study on bioaerosols in Indian indoor environment
- Indoor Air Quality in India-Overview and Gaps
Week 11
- Indoor air quality guidelines and control: Introduction
- IAQ guidelines and control: ventilation
- IAQ control methods
- Introduction to Contam
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Hyderabad
- Department
- Civil Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Asif Qureshi
- Level
- Graduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge. Coordinated by IIT Madras.
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