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he book is a compendium for all involved directly or indirectly in decision making about air pullution control - regulatory or engineering. Nowhere will the non-specialist find a more concise, technically correct answer to tantalizing problems, such as acidic deposition, the cost of abatement, effects (real, not imaginary) or uncertainties which still subsist.
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Fundamentals of Air Pollution THIRD EDITION RICHARD W. BOUBEL Department of Mechanical Engineering Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon DONALD L. FOX Department of Environmental Science School of Public Health University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina D. BRUCE TURNER Trinity Consultants, Inc. Chapel Hill, North Carolina ARTHUR C. STERN (14 March 1909-17 April 1992) Fundamentals of Air Pollution THIRD EDITION ACADEMIC PRESS San Diego New York Boston London Sydney Tokyo Toronto Cover photograph: Testing an air pollution source for particulate emissions. Photo courtesy of BWR Associates, Medford, Oregon This book is printed on acid-free paper. Copyright 1994, 1984, 1973, Elsevier (USA) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be mailed to: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777, Academic Press An imprint of Elsevier 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA http://www.academicpress.com Academic Press 84 Theobald's Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK http://www.academicpress.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fundamentals of air pollution / Ri