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Environmental Quality Chemistry
Quiz 2
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Chemistry
Undergraduate 3
02/23/2011

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Kelly's Correlair
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Ones ability to do math is directly proportional to their distance from the board
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Two basic classes of air pollution
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Industrial smog, Photochemical smog
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Photochemical smog
Definition
Ozone
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Industrial smog
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Particulates (fly ash, silicates, C soot) SO2 H2SO4 (aerosol) CO NOx
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Why is industrial smog worse in the winter
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fossil fuels consumed for heat and temperature inversion
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Wet scrubber
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Most effective and expensive
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Different types of scrubbers
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Electro static, bag filtration, cyclone separator, wet scrubber
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Functional groups
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Aldehyde, Peroxy, Keytone
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Transmittance:
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is the fraction of incident radiation that passes through the sample T = P(after)/P0(before)
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T ranges from
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0-1 has to be a fraction if anything is absorbed
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Absorbance
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is related to the transmittance by A = log (1/T)
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know how to do lewis structures of NO N2 O2
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Major reactions leading to photochemical smog
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N2 + O2 + (delta H) --> 2NO-
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2 NO- + 02 ---> 2 NO2
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NO2 + hv ----> NO- + 0
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0 + 02 ----> 03
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