Professor Anurag Garg Professor Subhankar Karmakar Professor Virendra Sethi CESE
In Service of YOU
Professor Arcievala:
Three things I learnt at Harvard:
1. Quantification 2. Library work and 3. Apprenticeship
Air Quality
Lecture 2
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Air Quality
Pre-course Quiz not for grade Phew !!! Thank God for small mercies !!!
Lifecycles/Statistics
Capacity of the earth system as a sink
Feasibility (thermodynamics) Proximity
Characteristic times
Kinetics Sulphur, Carbon, Nitrogen, Halogen Containing Compounds Cycles
Statistics
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Scales
Local > Regional > Global Earth : Apple :: Atmosphere : Skin Ambient : Indoor Dispersion and Mixing
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Class Exercise
Given : Regulatory Limit for SO2 in Ambient Air is
80 mg/m3 (0.03 ppm) for annual average 1300 mg/m3 (0.5 ppm) for 3 hour average
How many grams of Sulphur, if burnt in this lecture Hall, would pose a health risk to you ?
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X gm will give 2X gm
Mixed in how much volume ? Will lead to exposure concentration
Prizes to be Won
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Caution
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Results
RANGE
20 mg of Sulphur (panic buttons for no reason) 8 kg of Sulphur (dead people with Karma to blame)
Air Quality
Lecture 2
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Mixing/Dispersion
Meteorology
Vertical
Temperature
Lapse Rate
Horizontal
Wind
Speed Direction
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WIND
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Wind Rose
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/ozone/areas/wind.htm#dlfi
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Wind roses are divided into 16 wind directions Each wind direction is divided into wind speeds As the percent of time the wind blows from a particular directions gets larger, the portion of the bar representing the wind speed gets larger both in length and width
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Mixing/Dispersion
Meteorology
Vertical
Temperature
Lapse Rate
Horizontal
Wind
Speed Direction
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http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/dees/ees/climate/slides/atmprofile.gif
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Lapse Rates
Atmosphere cools with height
What rate ?
Dry (Adiabatic) Wet (Adiabatic) 10C/km 6C/km
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1000 m (say)
18 C
19 C
20 C
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1000 m (say)
20 C Air Parcel
20 C
21C
22 C
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1100 m
1000 m (say)
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Adiabatic Actual
WIND
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Scenarios
Adiabatic Actual
Height
Temperature
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Scenarios
Adiabatic Actual
Height
Temperature
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Scenarios
Adiabatic Actual
Height
Temperature
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Stability
Stable
Height
Unstable
Temperature
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http://www.tpub.com/content/aerographer/14312/css/14312_47.htm
Unstable
Stable
Plumes
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(b)
(c)
(d)
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Unstable
Stable
Plumes
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
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Review
Dispersion and Mixing Influenced by : Wind
Speed Direction Wind Rose
Contextual Communication
Where to stand when participating in this course :
Good Citizen OR Decision Maker How would this apply to my home city ?
Grading :
20 Questions : 20 Answers
Home Work
Please study the film An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore)
before the March 21st Class
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