本书为国外优秀教学用书的影印版。
全书共十五章，包括绪论、大气污染效应、大气污染控制法规和大气污染控制哲学、大气污染测度和排放估算、大气污染控制气象学、大气污染物浓度模型、大气污染控制总体思路、颗粒物性质、一次颗粒物控制、挥发性有机物控制、硫氧化物控制、氮氧化物控制、机动车污染问题、大气污染物与全球气候，以及一些特殊专题（一氧化碳、铅、有毒有害大气污染物、室内空气污染、氡污染）。
本书适合高校环境工程专业核心课程“大气污染控制工程”和相关课程教学参考，也可供双语教学参考。

Preface
Notation
1 Introduction to Air Pollution Control
1.1 Some of the History of Air Pollution Control in the United States of America
1.2 Why the Sudden Rise in Interest in 1969-1970?
1.3 Dirty Air Removal or Emission Control?
1.4 One Problem or a Family of Problems?
1.5 Emissions, Transport, Receptors
1.6 Units and Standards
1.7 The Plan of This Book
1.8 Summary
2 Air Pollution Effects
2.1 Effects of Air Pollution on Human Health
2.1.1 Animal Experiments
2.1.2 Short-Term Exposure of Human Volunteers
2.1.3 Epidemiology
2.1.4 Regulations to Protect Human Health
2.2 Air Pollution Effects on Property
2.3 Air Pollution Effects on Visibility
2.4 Summary
3 Air Pollution Control Laws and Regulations, Air Pollution Control Philosophies
3.1 U.S. Air Pollution Laws and Regulations
3.2 Air Pollution Control Philosophies
3.3 The Four Philosophies
3.3.1 The Emission Standard Philosophy
3.3.2 The Air Ouality Standard Philosophy
3.3.3 Emission Tax Philosophy
3.3.4 Cost-Benefit Philosophy
3.4 Changes and Adjustments
3.4.1 Air Quality Standards
3.4.2 Regional Problems
3.4.3 Emission Trading
3.4.4 Cap and Trade
3.5 Principal U.S. Air Pollution Laws
3.6 Summary
4 Air Pollution Measurements, Emission Estimates
4.1 A Representative Sample
4.2 Getting the Representative Sample to the Detector
4.3 Concentration Determination
4.4 Averaging
4.5 Standard Analytical Methods
4.6 Determining Pollutant Flow Rates
4.7 Isokinetic Sampling
4.8 Emission Factors
4.9 Visible Emissions
4.10 Summary
5 Meteorology for Air Pollution Control Engineers
5.1 The Atmosphere
5.2 Horizontal Atmospheric Motion
5.2.1 Equatorial Heating, Polar Cooling
5.2.2 The Effect of the Earth's Rotation
5.2.3 The Influence of the Ground and the Sea
5.3 Vertical Motion in the Atmosphere
5.3.1 Air Density Change with Temperature and Humidity
5.3.2 Air Density Change with Pressure
5.3.3 Atmospheric Stability
5.3.4 Mixing Height
5.3.5 Moisture
5.4 Winds
5.4.1 Velocities
5.4.2 Wind Direction
5.5 Temperature Inversions
5.6 Fumigations, Stagnations
5.7 Meteorological Forecasts
5.8 Summary
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6 Air Pollutant Concentration Models
7 General Ideas in Air Pollution Control
8 The Nature of Particulate Pollutants
9 Control of Primary Particulates
10 Control of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
11 Control of Sulfur Oxides
12 Control of Nitrogen Oxides
13 The Motor Vehicle Problem
14 Air Pollutants and Global Climate
15 Other Topics
Appendixes
Index