本书内容涉及大气污染的各个方面,包括空气污染的危害、空气污染控制的法规和哲学、空气污染指标的测量、污染气象学、颗粒物性质及一次颗粒物控制技术、气态污染物控制技术、机动车污染控制、全球气候变化、室内污染等,并突出介绍了大气污染控制的设备和工艺。本书中的许多内容是以往的大气污染控制教科书中找不到的,学生不仅可以学到大气污染控制技术和工程方面的知识,也有机会学习一部分环境工作者应当掌握的科学知识,提高在“环境科学”方面的素养。
本书可作为环境专业大气污染控制工程课程的教材,也可供从事环境工程和化学工程的研究人员和工程技术人员参考。

Preface
Notation
1 Introduction to Air Pollution control
1.1 Some of the History of Air Pollution Control in the United States of America
1.2 Why the Sudden Rise in Interest in 1969-1970?
1.3 Dirty Air Removal or Emission Control?
1.4 One Problem or a Family of Problems?
1.5 Emissions, Transport, Receptors
1.6 Units Plan of This Book
1.7 Summary
2 Air Pollution Effects
2.1 Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health
2.2 Air Pollution Effects on Property
2.3 Air Pollution Effects on Visibility
2.4 Summary
3 Air Polluti0n control Laws and Regulations, Air Pollution Control Philosophies
3.1 U.S. Air Pollution Laws and Regulations
3.2 Air Pollution Control Philosophies
3.3 The Four Philosophies
3.4 Market Control and Emission Rights
3.5 Principal U.S. Air Pollution Laws
3.6 Summary
4 Air Pollution Measurements, Emission Estimates
4.1 A Representative Sample
4.2 Getting the Representative Sample to the Detector
4.3 Concentration Determination
4.4 Averaging
4.5 St5andard Analytical Methods
4.6 Determining Pollutant Flow Rates
4.7 Isokinetic Sampling
4.8 Emission Fact6ors
4.9 Visible Emissions
4.10 Summary
5 Meteorology for Air Pollution Control Engineers
6 Air Pollutant Concentration Models
7 General Ideas in Air Pollution Control
8 The Nature of Particulate Pollutants
9 Control of Primary Particulates
10 Control of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
11 Control of Sulfur Oxides
12 Control of Nitrogen Oxides
13 The Motor vehicle Problem
14 Air Pollutants and Global Climate
15 Other Topics
Appendixes
Index