Residential

Home is the most important setting for infants and young children. They often eat, play, and sleep in the same area. Examples of sources of exposure to pollutants include building materials (e.g. wood treated with arsenic-based pesticides), lead-based paints, insecticides that are sprayed indoors, fuel (e.g. coal and wood) for indoor cooking, disposal practices for domestic waste (e.g. incineration), household chemicals (e.g. solvents), and small-scale enterprises at the family residence (e.g. brick producers who operate low-technology combustion kilns and makers of pottery using lead-based paints). 

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Residential sheathing Residual fuel Residual fuel oil Residual gas analyzers... 

Of the 200 million tons of municipal solid waste collected in the United States in 1993 (1), 22% was recycled while 62% was placed in landfills and 16% incinerated (2). Plastics comprised 9.3% of these materials. The number of U.S. residential collection programs increased from 1,000 in 1988 to more than 7,000 involving more than 100 million people in 1993 (2). Approximate 1994 U.S. recycling rates are given in Table 1. 

Residential collection programs indicate high collection rates for easily recognized types of containers (Table 2). 

Table 2. Residential Recovery Rate by Package Type ...

Bellows or Dia.phra.gm Meters. Bellows meters use flexible diaphragms as the metering chambers. A series of valves and linkages control the filling and emptying of the chambers. Movement of the flexible walls is regulated for a constant displacement per stroke. Meters of this type are widely used in the gas industry as residential meters (see Gas, natural). 

Residential Construction. Owing to rising energy costs, the cost and low thermal conductivity are of prime importance in wall and ceiling insulation of residential buildings. The combination of insulation efficiency, desirable stmctural properties, ease of appHcation, abiHty to reduce air infiltration, and moisture resistance has led to use of extmded polymeric foam in residential constmction as sheathing, as perimeter and floor insulation under concrete, and as a combined plaster base and insulation for walls. 

Commercial Construction. The same attributes desirable on residential constmction appHcations hold for commercial constmction as weU but insulation quaHty, permanence, moisture insensitivity, and resistance to free2e—thaw cycling in the presence of water are of greater significance. For this reason ceUular plastics have greater appHcation here. Both polystyrene and polyurethane foams are highly desirable roof insulations in commercial as in residential constmction. 

An estimated additional 2.5 EJ of wood energy was consumed for residential heating and light industry. 

X 10 J/kg(10.4 X 10 Btu/lb) in 1990. The shift in coal production toward western coal deposits also reflects the shift in coal utilization patterns (Table 7). Electric utiUties are increasing coal consumption on both absolute and percentage bases, whereas coke plants, other industrial operations, and residential and commercial coal users are decreasing use of this soHd fossil fuel. 

Year Electricutihti es Coke plants Other Residential andcommercial T otalconsumption... 

Several important generalizations can be made. The first is that fossil fuel prices are primary competition for biomass energy. Table 28 summarizes 1990 U.S. tabulations of average, consumption-weighted, deflvered fossil fuel prices by end-use sector (90). The deflvered price of a given fossil fuel is not the same to each end user ie, the residential sector normally pays more for fuels than the other sectors, and large end users pay less. 

EossH fuel Residential Commercial Industrial Transportation Utihty electricity ... 

The increase in residential fuelwood consumption over this period parallels the sharp increase in costs of oil, natural gas, and electricity and can be tracked by the number of wood-burning stoves in homes. Between 1950 and 1973, the estimated number of stoves dropped from 7.3 million to 2.6... 

Fuel. Natural gas is used as a primary fuel and source of heat energy throughout the iadustrialized countries for a broad range of residential, commercial, and iadustrial appHcations. The methane and other hydrocarbons react readily with oxygen to release heat by forming carbon dioxide and water through a series of kinetic steps that results ia the overall reaction,... 

Figure 3 provides a comparison of the energy costs in the U.S. residential market for natural gas, electricity, or No. 2 fuel oil (1). The prices of all three forms of energy to residential users have increased for the period shown. Electrical energy has had the largest doUar increase. 

These foams are used for board stock in commercial and industrial buildings as insulation for internal cavity and external walls, roof, floor, and foundations. Spray-appHed foam, covered subsequently with one of a variety of protective coatings, is widely used for large roofing appHcations and has limited use as external walls. Eor residential buildings, the principal use is as external sheathing board. 

U.S. Residential Insulation Industy, U.S. Dept, of Commerce, Washiagton, D.C., Aug. 1977, Survey Report. 

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