Book Details

Fundamentals of Air Pollution, Sixth Edition offers an extensive study of the science of air pollution. With a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book's author examines air pollution through the lenses of chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, toxicology, regulation, and more. Students, faculty, and researchers alike will find a world of information in this comprehensive text that is strategically organized into six parts: Foundations of Air Pollution, The Risks of Air Pollution, Tropospheric Pollution, Biogeochemistry of Air Pollutants, Addressing Air Pollution, and The Future for Air Pollution Science and Engineering.

Readers will find helpful features throughout, including case studies, topical sidebars, worked examples, calculations, and reference data. This valuable resource offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of air pollution with its wealth of benefits to both students and researchers.

Key Features

• Provides a systems approach to air pollution that helps readers understand the physical, chemical, biological, and engineering underpinning of any air quality topic
• Includes new sidebars and examples of emerging problems to help readers apply skills needed to address air pollution
• Presents critical equations, symbology, and a glossary useful for anyone who reads the Federal Register, state, province, and national standards and guidelines, and journal articles

New Features

• Chapter 1. The State of the Atmosphere: Recent disasters and events, including East Palestine, Ohio, wildfires, and warfare/conflict-related pollution. • Chapter 4. Air Pollution Decision Tools: Calculation examples. • Chapter 5. Life Cycle Assessment of Air Pollutants: Sidebar on EVs; Calculation of global greenhouse gas factors. • Part II. The Risks of Air Pollution: Sidebar on Probability and Bayes Theory; Sidebar on Nanoparticles • Chapter 7. Air Pollutant Hazards: New sections on emerging hazards, including PFAS, lead, etc. • Chapter 8. Air Pollutant Exposures: New sidebar on Aggregate Exposure and Cumulative Risk • Chapter 14. Air Pollution's Impact on Ecosystems: New section on Ecosystem Physics • Chapter 17. Air Pollutant Kinetics and Transformation: New sidebar on toxicokinetics and dynamics • Chapter 20. The Hydrologic Cycle: New text and figures on other earth cycles’ relationship to the hydrosphere, i.e., troposphere, lithosphere, and biosphere • Chapter 21. The Carbon Cycle: New sidebar on recent IPCC and other GHG reports • Chapter 31. Controlling Air Pollution from Sources: New text and graphics on recent advances in control technologies • Chapter 32. Sustainable Approaches: Tradeoffs among transportation options, including EVs versus hybrid versus fossil fuel exclusive vehicles. • Chapter 33. Grand Challenges: Update per engineering state-of-the-science.