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Parent topics

• Chemical engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products ^[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 pollutant concentrations [r]: Methods for conversion of air pollutant concentrations. ^[e]
• Air pollution [r]: The presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air (air pollutants) that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects. ^[e]
• 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 pollution emissions [r]: The term used to describe any gases, liquid droplets and solid particulates which are emitted or discharged into the atmospheric air and adversely affect the health of humans, animals, ecosystems or the usefulness of a natural resource. ^[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]: Add brief definition or description
• Choked flow [r]: A limiting point for the mass flow rate 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]

• Environmental engineering [r]: A field of engineering devoted to remediation of all forms of pollution. ^[e]
• Flash evaporation [r]: The partial vaporization that occurs when a saturated liquid stream undergoes a reduction in pressure by passing through a throttling valve or other throttling device. ^[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]
• Hazard and Operability Study [r]: A simple, structured methodology for identifying, evaluating and prioritizing potential hazardous occurrences in an existing process facility or a proposed new facility. ^[e]
• Heat of vaporization [r]: The amount of thermal energy required to convert a quantity of liquid into a vapor. ^[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]
• Natural environment [r]: A term that encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region of Earth. ^[e]
• Pollutant [r]: Any substance introduced into the environment that adversely affects the usefulness of a natural resource or the health of humans, animals, or ecosystems. ^[e]
• Process Safety Management (United States) [r]: A regulation promulgated by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1992 and intended to prevent or minimize the consequences of catastrophic releases of toxic, reactive, flammable, or explosive "Highly Hazardous Chemicals" (HHCs) from processes. ^[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]: Add brief definition or description
• Workbook of Atmospheric Dispersion Estimates [r]: The second edition of a book, first published in 1969, about the basic fundamentals of air pollution dispersion modeling. ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Choked flow [r]: A limiting point for the mass flow rate 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]
• DISPERSION21 [r]: A local-scale air pollution dispersion model developed by the air quality research unit at SMHI, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. ^[e]