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Air Quality and Pollution Control

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Air Pollution Control Engineering

Part of the book series: Handbook of Environmental Engineering ((HEE,volume 1))

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The Engineer’s Joint Council on Air Pollution and Its Control defines air pollution as “the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more contaminants, such as dust, fumes, gas, mist, odor, smoke or vapor in quantities, of characteristics, and of duration, such as to be injurious to human, plant, or property, or which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property.”

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Zorex Corporation, Newtonville, NY, USA

    Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE, DEE

  2. Lenox Institute of Water Technology, Lenox, MA, USA

    Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE, DEE

  3. Monsanto Company (Retired), St. Louis, MO, USA

    Norman C. Pereira PhD

  4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Yung-Tse Hung PhD, PE, DEE

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Wang, L.K., Taricska, J.R., Hung, YT., Li, K.H. (2004). Air Quality and Pollution Control. In: Wang, L.K., Pereira, N.C., Hung, YT. (eds) Air Pollution Control Engineering. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 1. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-778-9_1

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