PG Diploma in Air Pollution Control

PG Diploma in Air Pollution Control

This postgraduate programme is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of air pollution, its management and control. It provides all the necessary underpinning basic science of the atmosphere, both its physics and its chemistry, needed to understand air pollution and its dispersal. It explains the causes and the effects/impacts of air pollution and the engineering controls used to reduce emissions from industry and transport.

Subject Information
Lateral Entry : Not Available
Credit Transfer : Not Available
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Fundamental Concept of Air Pollution
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Air Quality Standards and Atmospheric Dispersions
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Ambient Concentrations and Adverse Effects
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Government Policies
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Processes and Equipment for Controlling Emissions
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Viva Voce

Career Opportunities
The need for graduates in this area is growing due to increasing scientific and public awareness of environmental, health and quality of life issues and increasing societal movements towards more sustainable futures. Career opportunities exist in air quality monitoring, assessment, forecasting and regulation, in industrial process design and emission control, in environmental health and human health, in the transport, energy, waste and chemical industrial sectors, in local and national government, in environmental consultancies, environmental agencies, research and education.