Garner & Flesch

While at my summer co-op job assignment I met another chemical engineering co-op from Auburn. We decided that we were going to open an environmental engineering company upon graduation. During the process of learning about environmental engineering and constructing a business plan, I came in contact with many pieces of machinery and structures that have unique fluid flows and properties. I have recently become more mindful of what I learned this past summer. A large component of environmental engineering is stack testing or point source emission testing. This is using probes to sample gases exiting an exhaust stack and testing these gases for select pollutants. A smoke stack has some very interesting fluid properties: there is a unique velocity profile for every stack, unique temperatures and pressures and weights of gases leaving the stack.



A pair of exhaust stacks, at a heavy industry site, emitting waste gases.