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Parent topics
- Chemical engineering [r]: The field of engineering that deals with industrial and natural processes involving the chemical, physical or biological transformation of matter or energy into forms useful for mankind, economically and safely without compromising the environment [e]
- Environmental engineering [r]: A field of engineering devoted to remediation of all forms of pollution. [e]
Subtopics
- Air pollution dispersion modeling [r]: Describes the basic mathematical simulation (i.e., modeling) of how buoyant air pollutants disperse in the atmosphere. [e]
Other related topics
- Air pollution dispersion terminology [r]: Describes and explains the words and technical terms that have a special meaning to workers in the field of air pollution dispersion modeling. [e]
- Air pollutant concentrations [r]: Methods for conversion of air pollutant concentrations. [e]
- Biological weapon [r]: Living organisms, or substances produced by living organisms, used as weapons to produce death or disease in human or agricultural populations [e]
- Chemical weapon [r]: A weapon that cause death or disease by means of chemical interaction with the metabolism of the victim, as opposed to causing injury through blast, thermal, or other effects not on a molecular level [e]
- Choked flow [r]: A limiting point for the flow of a gas which occurs under specific conditions when the gas flows through a restriction (such as a valve, a convergent-divergent nozzle, the hole in an orifice plate, or a leak in a gas pipeline or other gas container) into a lower pressure environment. [e]
- Decontamination [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Environmental engineering [r]: A field of engineering devoted to remediation of all forms of pollution. [e]
- Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion [r]: The fourth edition of a book, first published in 1979, about the basic fundamentals of the dispersion modeling of continuous, buoyant air pollution plumes. [e]
- National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center [r]: A national support and resource center for planning, real-time assessment, emergency response, and detailed studies of incidents involving a wide variety of hazards, including nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, and natural emissions. [e]
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [r]: An agency of the federal government of the United States of America whose mission is to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment (air, water and land) of the nation [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Weapons that cause death or injury not primarily through kinetic energy of projectiles, the detonation of conventional explosives, but through fission or fusion of nuclear weapons, poisoning by chemical weapons, infectious disease by biological weapons, or acute radiation syndrome from radiological weapons. [e]
- Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates [r]: The second editon of a book, first published in 1969, about the basic fundamentals of air pollution dispersion modeling. [e]
