Pollutants tropospheric

Browell, E. V.. Lidar remote sensing of tropospheric pollutants and trace gases, in Proceed-... 

Understanding the chemical and physical processes discussed throughout this book is key to the development of cost-effective and health-protective air pollution control strategies. Application of atmospheric chemistry to reducing stratospheric ozone depletion was discussed in Chapter 13. Here we focus on its key role in strategies for controlling tropospheric pollutants, including ozone, acids, particles, and hazardous air pollutants. 

Tremp, J., P. Mattrel, S. Fingler, and W. Giger, Phenols and nitrophenols as tropospheric pollutants Emissions from automobile exhausts and phase transfer in the atmosphere , Water Air Soil Pollut., 68,113-123 (1993). 

The rate of ozone production is critically dependent on the availability of odd hydrogen radicals (defined by Kleinman (1986) as the sum of OH, HO2, and RO2) and in particular by the OH radical. The OH radical is important because reaction sequences that lead to either the production or removal of many tropospheric pollutants are also initiated by reactions involving OH. In particular, the ozone production sequence is initiated by the reaction of OH with CO (reaction (1)) and hydrocarbons (reaction (2)). The split into NO -sensitive and VOC-sensitive regimes, discussed below, is also closely associated with sources and sinks of radicals. 

Volumes B7 and B8 refer to the protection of the environment and industrial safety. Volume B7 contains a chapter entitled Air treating all aspects of tropospheric pollution. Volume B8 tackles the issues relating to the raw materials and basic energies, to the products of reaction and to chemical safety. 

These petrols contain anti-knocking additives consisting of lead alkyls (0.3-0.6 g Pb/litre). These compounds are very toxic on their own, and harmful to the environment by the emission of lead compounds. In addition, the lead destroys the catalysts contained in the catalytic converters, which are meant to reduce the amount of tropospheric pollutants emitted by vehicles. For all these reasons, leaded petrols are doomed to disappear this will become effective internationally at the beginning of the 21st century. 

As has already been seen, these a priori lumped kinetic models account for the macroscopic properties of the reactions, such as cool flames, the delays of autoignition... but without being able to relate them to the chemical structure of the reactants. In other words, they are incapable of describing both qualitatively and quantitatively the formation of individual molecules, such as the toxic substances (carbon monoxide, aldehydes, butadiene, aromatics, PAHs, soot) or the tropospheric pollutants (nitrogen and sulphur oxides, unburnt hydrocarbons, various oxygenated compounds), produced by the burning of fuels. There is therefore a strong requirement to develop detailed reaction mechanisms, likely to predict both the kinetic and chemical characteristics of these reactions. 

This book is devoted to Gas-Phase Thermal Reactions (GPTRs), and especially combustion reactions, which take place in engines, burners and industrial chemical reactors to produce mechanical or thermal energy to incinerate pollutants or to manufacture chemical substances, and which play an important part due to the consequences they have on the environment fires and explosions, tropospheric pollution, greenhouse effect, hole in the stratospheric ozone layer. 

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