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Industrial pollution emissions

Emission Standards. In order to have a nationwide basis for air pollution emission controls and to set a minimum emission limit, the EPA developed New Source Performance Standards (NSPS). The NSPS set specific poUutant emission limits or describe the best available control technology (BACT) that should be appUed at that source. The EPA has issued NSPS, which apply to new constmction as weU as to large modifications, for many different sources. Sources in the chemical industry include the foUowing. [Pg.77]

The energy release and air pollution emissions from personal sources in the United States are greater than those from industry and utilities combined. In any major city in the United States, the mass of pollutants emitted... [Pg.77]

Production of the large quantihes of inorganic chemicals necessary for modern industrial processes can result in air pollutant emissions as undesirable by-products. Table 6-2 lists some of the more common inorganic chemi-... [Pg.84]

For many industrialized countries, efforts to improve the outdoor air quality have been under way for the majority of this century. In many locations around the world, significant improvements have taken place. Air quality in many major cities such as London, New York, and Chicago has improved from the conditions present in the first half of the twentieth century. Mechanisms and control programs are in place in the developed countries to continue the improvement of ambient air quality. Considerable effort and energy have been expended to characterize, evaluate, and control air pollution emissions to the atmosphere. [Pg.383]

There has been extensive recent rethinking of the role of fees and fines as means of influencing industrial decision making with regard to investment in pollution control equipment and pollution-free processes. In their new roles, fees and fines take the form of tax write-offs and credits for polluhon control investment taxes on the sulfur and lead content of fuels continuing fines based on the pollution emission rate and effluent fees on the same basis. Tax write-offs and credits tend to be resisted by treasury officials because they diminish tax income. Air pollution control agencies tend to look with favor on such write-offs and credits because they result in air pollution control with minimal effort on the part of their staffs and with minimal effect on their budget. [Pg.434]

In addition to chemicals covered under TRI, many other chemicals are released. For example, the EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards has compiled air pollutant emission factors for determining the total air emissions of priority pollutants (e.g., VOCs, SO, NO, CO, particulates, etc.) from many refinery sources. The EPA Office of Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) contains a wide range of information related to stationary sources of air pollution, including the emissions of a number of air pollutants which may be of concern within a particular industry. With the exception of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), there is little overlap with the TRI chemicals reported above. [Pg.106]

Thirteen hundred years later, controls on the use of coal in London were passed, marking the recorded start of air pollution control. But such controls were not enough to prevent the buildup of pollutants as by-products of industrialization air pollution was common to all industrialized nations by 1925. Air pollution is still a significant problem in urban centers worldwide. In the United States, pollutant emissions and air pollution concentrations have been falling, for the most part, since the 1970s. [Pg.47]

EPA recently surveyed the industry and produced a background information document containing detailed information concerning the various processes in the industry, pollution control devices, and emissions.1 2 3 5... [Pg.1194]

As member states of the European Union have been releasing new regulations to protect the environment by reducing pollutant emissions, the heating equipment industry as well as their customers is well aware of the need for a new sensor-con-trolled burner concept. The answer is continuous innovation in small burner technology. Burners with radiant surfaces, for example, reduce temperatures in the reaction zone of the flame, which in turn, reduces NOx emissions. Most modern furnaces use fully premixed burners. The stabilisation of the flame becomes more difficult, because a rise of the fluid flow yields a decrease of the burning velocity. [Pg.37]

The US Environmental Protection Agency recently announced its intention to develop and implement new Clean Air Act Standards for industrial coatings operations within the next year. These emission standards will eventually require companies involved in fabric printing, coating and dyeing operations to comply with Maximum Achievable Control standards. The Hazardous Air Pollutants emission limits that will apply to facilities and the impact on fabric coating operations are discussed. USA... [Pg.60]

Legislative restrictions on pollutant emissions have motivated the combustion community to seek new low-emission combustion techniques that are practical industrial energy sources. However, to meet the needs in most industrial applications, a combustion source needs to be able to maintain low-emission output over a range of heat release rates, occupy minimal volume, and have low operating costs per unit energy produced. One would like to maximize the turn-down ratio, volumetric heat release, and overall thermal efficiency while minimizing NOa , CO, and hydrocarbon emission levels. The ultra-low NO, emission performance of the CSC has been previously documented by the authors and its... [Pg.269]

Snider EH, Manning FS. 1982. A survey of pollutant emission levels in waste waters and residuals from the petroleum refining industry. Environ Int 7 237- 258. [Pg.160]

On January 25, 2000, die committee referred to in Article 19 of IPPC Directive gave a favorable opinion of a draft Commission Decision on die implementation of a European Pollutant Emission Register. The Commission Decision (2000/479/EC), to be referred to as die EPER Decision, was adopted on July 17, 2000. According to the EPER Decision, member states shall report to the Commission on emissions into ah and water from all individual facilities widi one or more activities as mentioned in Annex I to the IPPC Directive. The provided data will be made publicly accessible and disseminated on the Internet. Specifically, EPER is a publicly accessible register with emission data diat enables the Commission and national governments to monitor the trends in annual emissions of large industrial activities covered by Annex I of the IPPC Directive (Commission Decision, 2000). [Pg.9]

The Alkali Act of 1863 required that 95 per cent of the emissions of hydrogen chloride be abated and a national inspectorate was set up to enforce the legislation (NSCA, 1998). Later acts charged the inspectorate with the regulation of other types of industrial pollution, but it retained its name of The Alkali Inspectorate until 1983, when it became Her Majesty s Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate (NSCA, 1998, p5). The approach of the Alkali Act, of allowing industry to cause pollution, but setting constraints and limits over how much pollution it can emit, has become the standard UK approach to pollution control. [Pg.77]

Sulfur chemistry is important both in combustion and in the petrochemical industry. Most fossil fuels contain sulfur, and also biofuels and household waste have a sulfur content. As a consequence sulfur species are often present in combustion processes. Knowledge of gas-phase sulfur chemistry occurring in combustion has bearing on pollutant emissions and on system corrosion. Air pollution by SO2 still constitutes a major environmental concern and search for control techniques has motivated research also on high-temperature homogeneous sulfur chemistry. However, more recent work on sulfur chemistry has been concerned mainly with the effect of sulfur on other pollutant emissions, such as NO and CO, and with the SO3/SO2 ratio, which is important for the corrosive potential of the flue gas and for formation of sulfur containing aerosols. [Pg.608]

EPA. 1998c. National emission standards for hazardous air pollutants proposed standards for hazardous air pollutants emissions for portlancd cement manufacturing industry proposed rule. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Register. 63 FR 14182. March 24, 1998. [Pg.615]

Ihe specific information used to provide estimates of activity levels varies with the emission source sector being examined. For utilities, fuel use is desired. For the industrial sector, information on fuel use alone is not adequate since many industrial process emissions do not result from fuel combustion. Usually, some approximation for product output, such as estimates of value added or earnings, is often used. For motor vehicle emissions, estimates of vehicle miles traveled is more useful than fuel use because most emissions are unrelated to vehicle efficiency, i.e., a small car emits about the same amount of pollution per mile as a larger car. [Pg.365]


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