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Module 1: Basic Concepts
Designed primarily as a review session, this module presents some of the basic mathematical and chemical concepts that must be understood to successfully solve many types of air pollution problems. By combining this information in one concise module, we hope to save you the time of flipping through old texts in search of basic formulas and equations. This session also includes general problem solving techniques that may be new to many engineers, chemists, and biologists. These general techniques are very useful in avoiding the simple mistakes that can create errors.
If some or all of this material is new, you may wish to study some additional material. A refresher course in mathematics is provided in U.S. EPA, APTI Course SI:100, titled Mathematics Review for Air Pollution Control, which is prepared as a self-instructional manual. Refresher material in chemistry is available in a variety of useful texts available in bookstores.
- Solve problems using dimensional calculations.
- Solve basic mathematical problems involving logarithms and exponents.
- Calculate the surface areas and volumes of common geometric shapes
important in air pollution control.
- Apply the concept of material balance in solving air pollution control
problems.
- Convert temperature and pressure data between relative and absolute
scales.
- Calculate the quantities of materials in terms of gram moles and pound moles.