Information
Course Code AME28
Semester 2
Category
ECTS Credits 4
Eclass
Professors

Pandis S.

Proposed Bibliography
  1. Seinfeld J. H. and Pandis S. N., Atmospheric Chemistry: Air Pollution to Global Change, 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2006.
  2. Λαζαρίδης Μ., Ατμοσφαιρική Ρύπανση με Στοιχεία Μετεωρολογίας, 2η έκδοση, Εκδ. Τζιόλα, 2010.
  3. Γεντεκάκης Ι., Ατμοσφαιρική Ρύπανση, Κλειδάριθμος, 2010.
  4. Finlayson-Pitts B. J. and J. N. Pitts, Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere, Academic Press, 1999.
  5. Jacobson M. Z., Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  6. Jacobson M. Z., Atmospheric Pollution: History, Science, and Regulation, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  7. Cooper C. D. and F. C. Alley, Έλεγχος Αέριας Ρύπανσης, Εκδόσεις Τζιόλα, 2004.
Course Description

Atmosphere. Introduction, Transport times in the atmosphere, sulfur compounds, nitrogen compounds, organic compounds, ozone, atmospheric particulate matter, toxics, standards and regulations.

Tropospheric chemistry. Basic photochemical cycle of NO2, NO and O3, Atmospheric chemistry of CO and NOX, formaldehyde chemistry, chemistry of the clean atmosphere, tropospheric ozone, the role of organic compounds and NOx in ozone formation.

Aqueous-phase chemistry. Water in the atmosphere, absorption of pollutants in clouds, sulfuric acid formation, nitric acid formation.

Atmospheric particulate matter. Chemical composition and size distribution, thermodynamic principles, water and aerosols, thermodynamics of atmospheric particles, organic components of aerosols, primary and secondary aerosols.

Wet deposition and acid rain. General principles, collection of gas-phase pollutants by rain, collection of particles by rain, acid deposition, synthesis of processes leading to acid deposition.