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Industrial air emissions

Name(s):

Industrial waste gas

Power station emissions

Industrial air pollution

Nature

The environmental effects of point sources of pollutants, such as industrial plants, depend on many local factors, among which are topography, weather conditions, stack height, location, control equipment, raw materials used, and the type of process. In addition to sulphur dioxide, suspended particulate matter, and oxides of nitrogen, industrial air pollutants include lead, cadmium, mercury, beryllium, the mercaptans and hydrogen sulphide, fluorides, chlorine, asbestos, and many other wastes and by-products of technological processes.

Broader

Irritant fumes

Wasteful industries

Gaseous air pollutants

Poisonous gases and vapours

Unproductive use of resources

Urban-industrial air pollution

Environmental impacts of power stations

Environmental hazards of industrialization

Narrower

Industrial and domestic heating emissions as air pollutants

Aggravates

Thermal pollution ^{[in 1 loop]}

Smoke as a pollutant

Nickel as a pollutant

Mercury as a pollutant

Fluorides as pollutants

Vanadium as a pollutant

Manganese as a health hazard

Sulphur dioxide as a pollutant

Photochemical oxidant formation

Particulate atmospheric pollution

Increase in nitrous oxides in the atmosphere

Aggravated by

Waste paper

Reduced by

Disposal of pollutants from chimney scrubbers

Strategy(ies)

Recycling industrial wastes

Reducing methane emissions from petroleum production

Decreasing atmospheric nitrous oxide concentrations

Extending producer responsibility

Reducing industrial emissions

Enforcing air quality controls

Value(s)

Power

Emissions

Wastage

Reference(s)

Suess, M J, et al: Ambient Air Pollutants from Industrial Sources: a reference handbook

Type

(E) Emanations of other problems

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