Pollutant control

Smith, R., and Petela, E. A., Waste Minimisation in the Process Industries, paper presented at the IChemE Symposium on Integrated Pollution Control Through Clean Technology, Wilmslow, UK, May 20-21, 1992. 

Figure 11.1 An inertial collector. (Reproduced with permission from Stenhouse, "Pollution Control, in Teja, Chemical Engineering and the Environment, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, UK, 1981.)...

The battery limit is a geographic boundary which deflnes the manufacturing area of the process. This includes process equipment and buildings or structures to house it but excludes boilerhouse facilities, pollution control, site infrastructure, etc. 

The increase in demand for good quality white products and the reduced consumption of fuel-oil related to pollution controls are going to be important factors in residue processing and heavy oil conversion in the years to come. 

Pollution control such as the reduction of nitrogen oxides, halocarbons and hydrocarbons from flue gases [37] is another important field of plasma-assisted chemistry using non-thennal plasmas. The efficiency of plasma chemical reactions can be enhanced by introducing catalysts into the plasma [38, 39]. 

Penetrante B M, Bardsley J N and Hsiao M C 1997 Kinetic analysis of non-thermal plasmas used for pollution control Japan. J. Appl. Phys. 36 5007-17... 

Pollution Pollution control Pollutionmomtoring Pollution prevention... 

B. Harris and B. Tichenor, Proceedings of 74 th Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1981, Vol. 3, paper 81—41.5. 

Advances in fundamental knowledge of adsorption equihbrium and mass transfer will enable further optimization of the performance of existing adsorbent types. Continuing discoveries of new molecular sieve materials will also provide adsorbents with new combinations of useflil properties. New adsorbents and adsorption processes will be developed to provide needed improvements in pollution control, energy conservation, and the separation of high value chemicals. New process cycles and new hybrid processes linking adsorption with other unit operations will continue to be developed. 

R. E. Kenson andj. E. Jackson, Prepared Paper, Air Pollution Control Association, Annual Mtg., 1988. 

Selection of pollution control methods is generally based on the need to control ambient air quaUty in order to achieve compliance with standards for critetia pollutants, or, in the case of nonregulated contaminants, to protect human health and vegetation. There are three elements to a pollution problem a source, a receptor affected by the pollutants, and the transport of pollutants from source to receptor. Modification or elimination of any one of these elements can change the nature of a pollution problem. For instance, tall stacks which disperse effluent modify the transport of pollutants and can thus reduce nearby SO2 deposition from sulfur-containing fossil fuel combustion. Although better dispersion aloft can solve a local problem, if done from numerous sources it can unfortunately cause a regional one, such as the acid rain now evident in the northeastern United States and Canada (see Atmospheric models). References 3—15 discuss atmospheric dilution as a control measure. The better approach, however, is to control emissions at the source. 

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