ABSTRACT
As seen in previous chapters, the science of air quality is multidisciplinary, involving physics, chemistry, meteorology, climatology, biology, and engineering. The practice of air-quality protection/enhancement or air pollution control includes aspects of public policy development and implementation, air monitoring, emissions assessment, data summarization, modeling, and design and installation of control equipment. A variety of quantitative principles and applications are used in day-to-day pollution control practice. They are the subject of this chapter. Special attention is given to the gas laws and their application to airquality and emissions sampling/monitoring, emission assessment procedures, data summarization, air-quality modeling, and engineering controls.
