Literature published in 2012 and early 2013 related to food processing wastes treatment for industrial applications is reviewed. This review is a subsection of the Treatment Systems section of the annual Water Environment Federation literature review and covers the following food processing industries and applications: general, meat and poultry, fruits and vegetables, dairy and beverage, and anaerobic treatment of food wastes.

Literature published in 2018 and literature published in 2019 related to food-processing wastes treatment for industrial applications are reviewed. This review is a subsection of the Treatment Systems section of the annual Water Environment Federation literature review and covers the following food-processing industries and applications: general, meat and poultry, fruits and vegetables, dairy and beverage, and miscellaneous treatment of food wastes.

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Understanding and predicting the impact of air emissions form various sources are essential components of a typical course on Air Pollution in an engineering curriculum. Air pollution teaching modules were developed to aid instructors and students with the basic ability to model convective-dispersive transport of air pollutants emitted from point and distributed sources. The modules rely on basic "Gaussian Models" and use site specific input parameters on topography and meteorological conditions such as wind speed and direction, atmospheric stability, ambient temperature, and stack-gas properties. Modules provide instructions to set up and/or download the necessary software for classroom teaching activity and then demonstrate the application using typical case studies at basic and advanced levels. Basic level case studies include examples on predicting, (a) the concentration profile of contaminants along the center line of the plume, (b) maximum ground level contaminant concentration and establishing the location of critical impact zones, (c) iso-concentration profiles at the ground level and at a plane orthogonal to the prevailing wind direction. At the advanced level, modules present complex problems of analyzing reactive contaminants and area emissions of volatile organic carbon from a municipal sewage treatment plant. The modules rely on commercial software such as AIRSCAPE, SURFER, MATHCAD and public domain software like SCREEN3, that may be downloaded from the USEPA website. The modules were tested in selected undergraduate classes of the GATEWAY consortium schools for user friendliness and feedback from students were incorporated in the modules to improve their quality. In their current form these modules are ready for adoption into undergraduate engineering curricula and could very easily be extended to higher lever graduate courses on air pollution.