What do you believe qualifies as air pollution? Why?

Please use Godish, T., Davis, W. T., & Fu, J. S. (2014). Air quality [VitalSource Bookshelf version] (5th ed.). Retrieved from https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781466584464
Answer each questions independently…
1. We are about to work through Godish, Davis, and Fu’s (2014) textbook related to air quality. As such, we are going to be discussing engineering principles related to how we can engineer air quality as a means of controlling air quality. Consequently, we must first consider what constitutes air pollution. What do you believe qualifies as air pollution? Why?
Answer must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
2. In our first unit, we learned about chemical redox reactions that take place in the environment and that often create outdoor air pollution. In our reading, we were introduced to the term sink.
What is the significance of an atmospheric chemical sink—specifically when studying methods to engineer outdoor air quality? How would you explain this in layman’s terms to a company hiring you to help with the permitting process for a new facility?
Answer must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
3. Which do you think poses a greater risk to the overall population in U.S. homes: radon or biological contaminants? Why? Do you think it could vary by region? Why?
Answer must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
4. Consider that an employee within a company-sponsored (OSHA required) medical monitoring program for your industry has just had an annual work physical and now reports to have pulmonary stress, hearing damage, and elevated blood lead (Pb) concentrations that were not previously reported on the employee’s pre-employment exam. As a result, the human resources manager has asked you to help determine what work-related variables may have contributed to the employee’s impacted health. What variables would you need to consider from within the work system, and what questions would you need to ask the worker to consider from within the worker’s area of residence? How would you attempt to delineate the air quality impacts from the employee’s work system and home?
Answer must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.
4. Oil field companies are often known for keeping a well-serviced fleet of trucks for their staff employees, including often replacing these trucks for aesthetic purposes in order to maintain a strong marketing position within their competitive marketplace of client oil and gas producers. One of the most notable deteriorations of oil field service vehicles with relatively little age and mileage is the exterior paint coating of the vehicle. What air pollutants might be responsible for the deterioration of the vehicle paint color, luster, and integrity? Carefully explain your answer from a chemical perspective.
Answer must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
6. Consider Godish, Davis, and Fu’s (2014, p. 250) Figure 7.5; the fact that the reported industry practice is to accept sample data within 10% of the true value for statistical sampling methods and within 25% of the true value for passive sampling methods.
What problems do you perceive that this practice could pose when attempting to generalize air quality study outcomes? If you were the environmental engineer for a company tasked with monitoring emissions, reflect on how you would explain to management the benefits of stricter tolerances in your company’s monitoring.
Answer must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
7. Consider the looping plume form due to windy conditions, and recall that the Gaussian model presumes a normal curve distribution. What problems do you perceive that a Gaussian model might pose when attempting to exclusively use this model in variable wind areas? How do you think the shape of the looping plume could affect the statistical model assumptions inherent in the Gaussian model?
Answer must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
8. We have just spent the last seven units engineering air quality to meet federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state air quality control limits. How will you be able to apply what you learned in this course to your current or future work within your own state within the United States, or within a different country (if you do not reside in the United States)?
Answer must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
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Discipline: Environmental studies and Forestry Advanced Air Quality Control