Acid deposition materials

Receptors. The receptor can be a person, animal, plant, material, or ecosystem. The criteria and hazardous air pollutants were so designated because, at sufficient concentrations, they can cause adverse health effects to human receptors. Some of the criteria pollutants also cause damage to plant receptors. An Air QuaUty Criteria Document (12) exists for each criteria pollutant and these documents summarize the most current Hterature concerning the effects of criteria pollutants on human health, animals, vegetation, and materials. The receptors which have generated much concern regarding acid deposition are certain aquatic and forest ecosystems, and there is also some concern that acid deposition adversely affects some materials. 

Since SO2 and NO2 are criteria pollutants, their emissions are regulated. In addition, for the purposes of abating acid deposition in the United States, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments require that nationwide SO2 and NO emissions be reduced by approximately 10 million and 2 million t/yr, respectively, by the year 2000. Reasons for these reductions are based on concerns which include acidification of lakes and streams, acidification of poorly buffered soils, and acid damage to materials. An additional major concern is that acid deposition is contributing to the die-back of forests at high elevations in the eastern United States and in Europe. 

Both Watts and sulfamate baths are used for engineering appHcation. The principal difference in the deposits is in the much lower internal stress obtained, without additives, from the sulfamate solution. Tensile stress can be reduced through zero to a high compressive stress with the addition of proprietary sulfur-bearing organic chemicals which may also contain saccharin or the sodium salt of naphthalene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid. These materials can be very effective in small amounts, and difficult to remove if overadded, eg, about 100 mg/L of saccharin reduced stress of a Watts bath from 240 MPa (34,800 psi) tensile to about 10 MPa (1450 psi) compressive. Internal stress value vary with many factors (22,71) and numbers should only be compared when derived under the same conditions. 

A receptor is something which is adversely affected by polluted air. A receptor may be a person or animal that breathes the air and whose health may be adversely affected thereby, or whose eyes may be irritated or whose skin made dirty. It may be a tree or plant that dies, or the growth yield or appearance of which is adversely affected. It may be some material such as paper, leather, cloth, metal, stone, or paint that is affected. Some properties of the atmosphere itself, such as its ability to transmit radiant energy, may be affected. Aquatic life in lakes and some soils are adversely affected by acidification via acidic deposition. 

Acid deposition and the associated particulate nitrates and sulfates are implicated in the deterioration of certain sensitive ecosystems, decreased visibility, negative human health effects, and increased degradation of certain stone building materials and cultural resources, especially those made of limestone and marble. Fine particulate nitrate and sulfate particles... 

It has been found that particulate pollution, while causing soiling of materials, may also be responsible for increasing corrosion levels (compared to the corrosion that would be caused by the same level of acid impingement alone) by a process of adsorption. Also, particulates can react synergistically with the acid deposition to cause much greater damage. 

Acid rain affects plants by changing the conditions in the soil. For example, nitric acid deposits nitrates, which fertilize the land. The nitrates allow fast-growing weeds such as quack grass to replace valuable prairie species. If these species were to become extinct, their genetic material would no longer be available for agricultural research. 

Some of the most dramatic environmental effects of acid deposition have involved buildings, statues, monuments, and other structures made of metal and stone. The explanation of this kind of damage is obvious Acids in acid deposition react with metals and with many of the compounds of which rock and other building material are made. For example, corrosion occurs when metals such as iron are exposed to hydrogen ions in the presence of oxygen ... 

Chemical vapor deposition of silanes, along with a subsequent calcination using steam, can be utilized to deposit silica (Si(>2) inside the pore system. By variation oF the temperature, the partial pressure of the silane and the duration of the treatment, location and amount of the deposited material can be controlled [104]. When, for example, tetraethoxy- or tetrame-thoxysilane are used as reacting agents on a mordenite, ZSM-5, or /1-zeolite, then a controlled deactivation of only the external cristallite surface is possible [23, 44]. This is because these are rather bulky molecules which are not able to diffuse into the pore system of the crystallite. Alternatively, an irreversible adsorption of bulky bases may serve to destroy the undesired external acidity. Suitable basic compounds are 4-methylquino-line for ZSM-5 [2] and tributylphosphite for mordenites [71]. 

Goodwin (1961, 1973b) considers the BIF of the Canadian shield to be the products of chemical precipitation in submarine volcanic regions as a result of extensive development of hot springs and fumarolic activity. A typical feature of the Archean crust was the production of volcano-tectonic basins with exhalative-clastic-effusive filling. Universal emission of basic effusives, rhythmic eruption of acid pyroclastic material, and extensive development of exhalative activity were observed in their formation. After the ore components arrived in the sea water they were deposited mainly near springs, but substantial amounts of SiOj and part of the Fe were widely disseminated. 

Calcite and dolomite are the common carbonate materials of sedimentary (limestone, sandstone) and metamorphic (marble) rocks used as building stones. These materials are highly susceptible to attack by acid deposition and by the presence of atmospheric SO2 according to the following reactions ... 

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