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Explore effective strategies to reduce air pollutants, from refining fuels to innovative market trading solutions. Learn about controlling PM, reducing NOx emissions, and improving air quality through advanced pollution control methods. Discover how to turn the right to pollute into a commodity and implement federal emission standards for vehicles to combat air pollution effectively.
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Controlling Air Pollution Lecture 10.3 Chapter 15
Lets Avoid Making Air Pollutants in the First Place! • Less impurities in fuels • Better grades of coal (low S coal) • Refine out the sulfur • Increased efficiency and conservation • *Combustion of any fuel releases air pollutants
Removing Sulfur from Coal • Fluidized Bed Combustion
Removing Sulfur from Coal Coal Gasification
Temperature and NOx Emissions • Reduce the temperature of the combustion process incomplete combustion reduces efficiency increased PM & CO • What is the right blend of air, fuel, temperature and fuel?
Controlling Particulate Matter Without Electrostatic precipitator
ControllingPM With Electrostatic precipitator
Scrubbers • Scrubbers (capture after burning)
Benefit: Can remove SO2 • SOx + Ca(OH)2 -->CaSO4
Negatives of PM Control • Requireadditional energy to run • Increase resistance to airflow • Require more fossil fuels to run, therefore more CO2 released overall
Smog Reduction-Control VOC’s • Phase I Vapor Recovery System for gasoline
Innovative Pollution Control • Gasoline vapors (VOC’s) • Dry cleaning fluids (VOC’s) • Ban lighter fluid for starting barbeques (VOC’s) • Ban wood burning stoves (PM, CO, NOx) • Bakeries (bread) (VOC’s) • Restricting automobile use (odd/even days) (COx, NOx, HC) • Carpool lanes • Improve the quality and accessibility of public transportation • Specific toll times/areas
Innovative Pollution Control • Let’s turn the right to pollute into a commodity • Set a number of allowances and buy and sell them in a free-market system • SO2 trading • 23.5 million tonnes 10.3 million tonnes from 1982 to 2008
Other Ways to Improve Air Quality • Reduce sulfur content in gasoline from its current average of 330 ppm to 30 ppm • Sulfur clogs catalytic converters • Require federal emission standards for all passenger vehicles • Including SUVs, trucks and minivans • Require emission testing for all vehicles • Including diesel