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Aerosol Technology: Properties, Behavior, and Measurement of Airborne Particles (Wiley-Interscience)

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As the New Testament is to Christians and the Torah is to Jews, this work is the essential literature to understanding aerosols and aerosol technology. You enter as a novice with human explanations of terms, proceed through most of the mundate and requisite statistics, and then are allowed to explode through the fascination that is aerosols. Through comprehensive, yet comprehensable language, this is the first and only way to understand what has previously been an elusive and disperse knowledge. Each edition incorporates current tech and thought. A best, first.

How is the aerosol from hair spray related to a carbonated drink or a sponge? It all has to do with what is finely dispersed and what medium suspends this dispersion. With these provoking thoughts, William C. Hinds leads us into the partculars of suspended particles: aerosols. Dr. Hinds has accomplished an amazing feat here. Understanding this complicated field requires familiarity with at least one year of college calculus. With an eloquent writing style laced with differentials and derivations, he describes the various phenomena of aerosols, including particle settling speed, respirability, light scattering, dust explosions, and much more. His description of aerosol measurement techniques is interesting and detailed. (You would be surprised at how complicated are the physics of filtration!) What is truly special, however, is his ability to effectively describe in words what the equations are saying. You can grasp a feel for the phenomena described even if some of the differentials leave you stumped. With problems (and their answers--NOT solutions!) at the end of each chapter, this is an ideal text for graduate students in public health, engineering, industrial hygiene, or toxicology. Professionals working in these fields, however, will find the book a valuable reference. The text is filled with helpful tables and figures, and the more rigorous proofs of important formulas are presented in appendices. References end each chapter.

Already 15 years old, the book remains a benchmark. Oh--and the sponge? The disperse phase is air, the suspending medium is solid. Hmm.

Excellent guide to particle behaviour...I am involved in research where an indepth understanding of aerosol behavior is a must in electrostatic powder coating and separation. This is an excellent resource and should be a part of your professional collection.

This is an excellent textbook for aerosol dynamics for anyone interested in learning about airborne particles. It is an extremely relevant book for students (undergraduate and graduate level) and researchers in the field. The book provides a lot of examples that utilizes new equations and all the problems have the final answers provided. In addition to providing fundamental aerosol basics, the author also discusses instruments that are used in the field to collect data on aerosols. Overall, this is an excellent text that covers all the fundamentals of aerosol technology.

The book really treat aerosol sciences very well but it does not provide much solution and insight to the question at the end of the chapters.
people who have done maths a long time ago have problem solving the problems.

Is a good book, technical enough to learn a lot abput aerosols, but at the same time easy to understand.

This is a very good book on aerosols. It is easy to understand and the review problems are fair an understandable.