AIR POLLUTION CONTROL LAB

Head: Assoc. Prof. PHAM VAN TOAN; Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Management Department: Environmental Engineering

Location: Room 5.14 & 5.15, Building LRC

1. Mission:

The air pollution control lab is one of the new laboratories established in the framework of the Can Tho Universiry Improvement Project (ODA Project) in 2022. The lab is divided into 3 units: Sample preparation room, Basic air pollution control room, and Advanced air pollution control room. The lab plays an improtant role in teaching the practical subjects related to air quality monitoring, air pollution control, dust and air pollutant treatment. In addition, the lab is a place where the undergraduate, graduate and doctor students conduct thesis on the air pollution control fields. Besides, the lab is also invested high technology equipment for the speacial researches on air quality monitoring and air pollutant treatment.

2. Education

List of the practice courses are taught in the Lab.

3. Research

The air pollution control lab servies scientific research activities such as assessment of the indoor and outdoor air quality, the efficiency of air pollution treatment measures, green house gas emission, etc. The lab has been equiped equipment, tools for analyzing air quality parameter, including micro-climate parameters (e.g air temperature, humidity, wind speed…), ambient air quality parameters (total dust, particle matters PM₁₀, PM_2,5, CO, CO₂, SO₂, NO_x…), other inorganic and organic gases from combustion and industrial activities…

Photos of the main equipment in the Lab

4. Publication related to scientific fields of the lab

Wen, T.Y., Chantara, S., Jalaludin, J., Lestari, P., Syafei, A.D., Pham, T.V., Tsai, Y.I. (2023). Overview of Aerosol and Air Pollution in South Eastern Asia Countries. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 23, 230055.

Toan, P.V., Kim, L., Thanh, N.T., Toan, H.L., Tuan, L.A., Minh, H.V.T., Kumar, P. 2023. Emission and Reduction of Air Pollutants from Charcoal-Making Process in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Climate. 11, 149.

Toan, P.V.; Kim, L.; Thanh, N.T.; Toan, H.L.; Tuan, L.A.; Minh, H.V.T.; Kumar, P. 2023. Emission and reduction of air pollutants from charcoal-making process in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Climate: 11,149. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11070149.

Pham Van Toan, Nguyen Thi Phuong, and Nguyen Thanh Giao. 2018. Indoor air quality and health risk assessment for workers in packageing production factory, Can Tho city, Viet Nam. Journal of Vietnamese Environment. 10; 66-71 pp.

Phạm Văn Toàn và Nguyễn Nghin Lương. 2013. Hiện trạng chất lượng môi trường không khí xung quanh làng nghề hầm than và giải pháp kiểm soát. Tạp chí Khoa học Trường Đại học Cần Thơ. 8 pp.

5. Program/Projects

To study possible techniques to treat soil, water and air pollution in the specific context of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (ODA Project). 2017 -2021.

Developing and applying desalination technology using solar energy to provide fresh water for domestic activity in the coastal area (Ordered project). 2021-2022.

Charcoal kiln’s air pollutant treatment by absorption method (Local project). 2015 -2016.