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Filtration and Air Cleaning Systems for Buildings

This course provides guidance for filtration and air cleaning systems for buildings for protection of a building environment from airborne chemical, biological, or radiological attacks.

Created byHarlan Bengtson, PhD, PE
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BeginnerUpdated Jan 5, 2025
Filtration and Air Cleaning Systems for Buildings

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand the principles of particulate air filtration and gas-phase air cleaning to protect building environments.
check_circleLearn NIOSH recommendations for filter and sorbent selection, system operations, and maintenance.
check_circleExplore strategies for upgrading filtration and air-cleaning systems to enhance indoor air quality.
check_circleAssess the economic considerations of filtration systems, including initial, operating, and replacement costs.

About This Course

This course provides guidance on filtration and air cleaning systems for buildings to protect the indoor environment from airborne chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. It covers filtration and air-cleaning principles, including particulate air filtration and gas-phase air cleaning. The course also includes recommendations for filter and sorbent selection, system operations, upgrades, and maintenance, along with insights into economic considerations such as initial, operating, and replacement costs.

Participants will review material from the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) publication, “Guidance for Filtration and Air Cleaning Systems to Protect Building Environments from Airborne Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Airborne Attacks,” April 2003, available at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2003-136/default.html. 

Topics Covered:

  • Particulate air filtration and gas-phase air cleaning
  • NIOSH recommendations for filter and sorbent selection for filtration and air cleaning systems
  • NIOSH recommendations for system operations
  • NIOSH recommendations for system upgrades
  • NIOSH recommendations for system maintenance
  • Initial cost considerations for filtration and air cleaning systems
  • Operating cost considerations for filtration and air cleaning systems
  • Replacement cost considerations for filtration and air cleaning systems

Intended Audience:

This course is intended for professionals in construction, civil, environmental, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as other related fields, whose roles may require a general knowledge of air filtration and cleaning systems for occupied facilities.

Publication Source:

NIOSH: "Guidance for Filtration and Air Cleaning Systems to Protect Building Environments from Airborne Chemical, Biological, or Radiological Airborne Attacks," April 2003.

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Your Instructor

Harlan Bengtson, PhD, PE
Harlan Bengtson, PhD, PE
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Dr. Harlan Bengtson is an online PDH course provider of continuing education courses for professional engineers. Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. Dr. Bengtson has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Dr. Harlan H. Bengtson, PE 33 Grainey Drive Glen Carbon, IL 62034 Phone: (618) 406-6892 E-mail: hnkbengtson@yahoo.com PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Dr. Bengtson is a graduate of Iowa State University with B.S. and M.S. degrees and of the University of Colorado with a PhD. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Missouri. He has spent 30 years in engineering education in teaching and administrative positions, including six years as Dean of Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His areas of expertise are environmental engineering, hydrology and hydraulics, engineering science and renewable energy systems. He has done regular consulting work while holding the academic positions. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Bengtson worked for Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing as a Product Development Engineer and for E. I. duPont deNemours as a Process Development Engineer. Dr. Bengtson has authored numerous publications, presentations and technical reports. He is currently active as a freelance technical writer, author of continuing education courses for Professional Engineers, and is the founder of www.engineeringexceltemplates.com and www.EngineeringExcelSpreadsheets.com, sites with the objective of providing inexpensive, easy to use Excel spreadsheets for a variety of engineering calculations.

Credit Information

Do these courses count toward my professional development requirements?

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If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.

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