ENVR 416 
Aerosol Technology
(Managing the Microclimate: Critical Concepts)

Instructors
David Leith                send e-mail 
Maryanne Boundy     send e-mail
James Brown            send e-mail
Richard Kamens       send e-mail
David Nash                send e-mail
Jacky Rosati              send e-mail
Michael Tolocka        send e-mail

Background Information

Class Schedule
Class Policies 

Why Study Aerosols? 
Donora Fog of 1948
London Smog of 1952
Field Burning
Dust from WTC Attack 
Peat bog fire photos  

Ode to a Particle Unknown

Reference Materials

Frank Chart  Top  Bottom  Orig  
Gas Viscosities
 
Log Probability Paper 
Psychrometric Chart

Sieve Sizes  
Isaac Newton
George Stokes  
Navier and Stokes 
Robert Millikan  
Adolph Fick 
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 
Marian Smoluchowski 
Flow around sphere 
Flow separation at high Re 
Streamlining 
CD vs. Re Plot 
Slip Factor  spreadsheet 
Settling Velocity Tables 
Settling Eqns: non Stokes 
Tau  spreadsheet 
Size Distribution 
Log Probability Paper 
Log Probability - Excel
Diameter Conversions 
Parametrics 
 
Impactor Article by W. John 
Impactors by Marple and Willeke
Andersen Calibration by Vaughn 
Cascade Impactor Spdsht
 
Brownian motion 
Normal Distribution 
Diffusion Distances 
Adiabatic Expansion Spdsht 
Kamens Lectures  
   Lecture Notes
   Jay's Theory
   Odum paper 
   Pankow paper  
   Kamens paper 
Light Scattering
   Scattering Program
   Rayleigh scattering  
   Mie scattering calculator 
   Scattering examples    
Rainbows 
Particle Charging 
Electrical Figures  
Agglomeration

Laboratory Assignments
On-line lab safety course   
Lab Time Reservations
Microscopy Lab  
   lecture notes  
Calibration Lab  
   lecture notes
Key to Effective Writing 

Homework 
Problems from the Book 

Additional Homework
Rectilinear motion  
Statistics  
Curvilinear motion  pictures
Diffusion

Past Quizzes
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Last updated 11/14/08

 


Text used in this course, available in the Medical Area Bookstore
Hinds, William C., Aerosol Technology, 2nd Ed., Wiley, New York, 1999.

Errata sheet for the textbook 

Graduate School Listing:
  
ENVR 416  Aerosol Technology (4).  Prerequisite, admission to the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, or permission of the instructor.  Physical and chemical principles underlying behavior of particles suspended in air.  Rectilinear and curvilinear motion of particles in a force field, diffusion, evaporation, and condensation, electrical and optical properties and particle coagulation.  Three lecture hours a week, with several laboratory assignments. Fall.   

The objective of this course is to discuss aerosols, and their relationship to problems in environmental engineering, air pollution control, atmospheric chemistry and industrial hygiene.  The course requires knowledge of calculus and college-level physics. 

At the left is a list of links that are relevant to this course.  Note particularly the links to quizzes and exams given in previous years.

If you have questions of any kind regarding the course or its contents, please raise them in class, send an e-mail, call, or come in to see Professor Leith at any time.  

Notes:  Until fall 2001, this course was listed as ENVR 145
              Until fall 2006, this course was listed as ENVR 116
              Until fall 2004, this course was titled 
                 "Introduction to Aerosol Science"