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... gasification environmental effects A comparison of the impacts on water streams of various processes is given in Table Pruschek et al (1995) discusses the removal of pollutants from a coal gasification ... final stack emissions NOx levels are reduced by saturating the gas prior to gas turbine combustion (see Spencer 1986) or Makansi (1987) Advances in process efficiency are possible, through the use ... complete the IGCC Heitz (1985) presented data on end uses of various gasifier process streams (see Table 2) The analysis of a typical product gas stream appears in Table From an economic point...

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... Ferrand Associates AIR POLLUTANT REMOVAL: see ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE REMOVAL; MOBILE SOURCE POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION INSTRUMENTATION: see also STACK SAMPLING; ... much higher doses without the contaminants that may contribute to the effects found in the epidemiological study AIR POLLUTANT EFFECTS • • • The true dose is not always the simple product of the ... monoxide after exposure is slower in the AIR POLLUTANT EFFECTS 35 1000 800 LW = light work HW = heavy work 600 500 Se 400 de 300 CO concentration in air (ppm) 200 nt ar y LW HW 100 80 60 50 40...

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... synergistic effects that were revealed by microarray technology DEP and ox-PAPC co-regulatory effects have in vivo correlates We investigated whether the DEP and ox-PAPC synergistic effects occurred ... Increases in heart rate during an air pollution episode Am J Epidemiol 1999, 150:1094-1098 Ibald-Mulli A, Stieber J, Wichmann HE, Koenig W, Peters A: Effects of air pollution on blood pressure: ... Time-Series Studies of Air Pollution and Health Boston, MA: Health Effects Institute; 2003:9-24 Samet JM, Dominici F, Curriero FC, Coursac I, Zeger SL: Fine particulate air pollution and mortality...

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... coal Air Quality Standard Philosophy • The air quality standard is logically called a “Zero-damage” philosophy • This is based on assumption that the true situation for most major air pollutants ... Standards Air quality Standards Emission Taxes Cost – benefit Analysis Cost effectiveness Very bad Good Fair Excellent Simplicity Excellent Poor Excellent Terrible Enforceability Excellent Fair Excellent ... Terrible Enforceability Excellent Fair Excellent Unknown Flexibility Poor Fair Unnecessary Unknown Evolutionary ability Fair Fair Good Good Emission Standard Philosophy • “There is some maximum possible...

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... air pollutant through the legislative process in the U.S He also discusses the formal coining of the term “hazardous air pollutant in the Clean Air Act of 1970 to represent a group of air pollutants ... juncture 1.2 THE LIST OF HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS The term “hazardous air pollutant was formalized in the 1970 Clean Air Act to mean a pollutant that was not a “criteria” pollutant (as defined further ... Press LLC Hazardous Air Pollutants: A Brief Introduction 1.1 BACKGROUND Because of the potential public health implications, the importance of toxic air pollutants in ambient air has been recognized...

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... transformations of hazardous air pollutants, Environ Sci Technol., 28, 378A-387A, 1994 Kelly, T.J et al., Ambient Measurement Methods and Properties of the 189 Clean Air Act Hazardous Air Pollutants, Report ... Patrick, D.R., Toxic air pollutants and their sources, in Toxic Air Pollution Handbook, Patrick, D.R., Ed., Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1994, pp 33-49 U.S EPA National Air Toxics Program: ... ambient measurement methods for hazardous air pollutants, Environ Sci Technol., 29, 183A-187A, 1995 Keith, L.H and Walker, M.M., EPA’s Clean Air Act Air Toxics Database, Volume 1: Sampling and...

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... and Related Air Pollutants, EPA-600/9-91/018, Publication No VIP-21, Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 382, 1991 TO-16 document available at www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/airtox.html ... measurement methods for hazardous air pollutants, Environ Sci Technol., 29, 183A-187A, 1995 16 Kelly, T.J et al., Concentrations and transformations of hazardous air pollutants, Environ Sci Technol., ... et al., Surveys of the 189 CAAA Hazardous Air Pollutants: II Atmospheric Lifetimes and Transformation Products, in Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, Proc 1993 EPA/AWMA Int Symp.,...

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... System (AIRS) Administered by the OAQPS, AIRS is a computerbased repository of U.S air pollution data Data contributed to AIRS are largely the result of regulatory monitoring of criteria pollutants ... urban residents may be exposed 4.3 AMBIENT AIR CONCENTRATIONS OF HAPs Ambient air concentrations of hazardous air pollutants are compiled in Table 4.1 (see Appendix following Chapter 4), which ... monitoring toxic VOCs in ambient air, J Air Waste Mgt Assoc., 41, 1308, 1991 © 2002 by CRC Press LLC APPENDIX TABLE 4.1 Ambient Air Concentrations of 188 Hazardous Air Pollutants (Chemicals shown...

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... hazardous air pollutant degradation EPA Contract No 68-023169 (WA-33/40), U.S EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1984 Klöpffer, W., Kaufmann, G and Frank, R., Phototransformation of air pollutants: ... on the transformation products and atmospheric persistence of the 188 hazardous air pollutants listed in the Clean Air Act The atmospheric lifetimes for all but five of the chemicals have been estimated, ... 2002 by CRC Press LLC NH O See chloroform for analogous pathways O Considerable disagreement in reported OH rate constants TABLE 5.1 (CONTINUED) Summary of Hazardous Air Pollutant Transformations...

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... environment in relation to air temperature and air quality as defined by the amount of outdoor air supply within the modern office environment The effects of air temperature and outdoor air supply rate ... outdoor air supply rate, new to used filters at high outdoor air supply rate, 36 Chapter – Effects of air temperature and outdoor air supply rate in the field studies low to high outdoor air supply ... -C.1 Effects of air temperature on perceived indoor environmental conditions -C.2 Effects of time of exposure on perceived indoor environmental conditions -C.3 Effects of air temperature...

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... providing a solid evidence basis for the decision makers General Introduction AIR POLLUTION AND ITS HEALTH EFFECTS Air pollution Air pollution is a complex mixture of many gaseous and particulate components ... air pollutants such as NO2 (proxy of the traffic related air pollution mixture) is often estimated by applying these modeling techniques to the residential address.e.g.9,14,32 The estimated air ... have been made between these two modeling techniques.26,35,36 Air pollution health effects Since the 1980s, the health effects of air pollution have been intensely investigated in episode and...

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... adverse effects of air pollution in specific locales; quantifying the effects of short-term variation of air pollution (including air pollution episodes); and serving as the basis for air pollution ... add estimates of effects of individual pollutants derived from single -pollutant statistical models However, multi -pollutant models may produce unstable estimates, as the number of pollutants they ... known or suspected effects of air pollution concern constituents other than the commonly measured gases and particle indices (sometimes referred to as air toxics or hazardous air pollutants) For...

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... Data Health effects of transport-related air pollution /edited by Michal Krzyzanowski [et al.] 1 .Air pollution 2 .Air pollutants 3.Vehicle emissions adverse effects 4.Environmental exposure 5.Health ... lead to the formation of tropospheric ozone, a well-known air pollutant Health effects of transport-related air pollution The mixture of air pollution varies in time and space, depending on several ... proportion of the populations exposure to air pollution Studies on health effects The epidemiological and toxicological evidence on the effects of transport-related air pollution on health has increased...

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... Sources and Copollutants One of the biggest gaps in our knowledge relates to what specific air pollutants, combination of pollutants, sources of pollutants, and characteristics of pollutants are ... Particles and Health Comm On the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants; HMSO: London, United Kingdom,1995 77 Vedal, S Update on the Health Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution; Clin Chest Med 2002, 23, ... difficult to evaluate the effects of air pollution on lung cancer Cigarette smoking is by far the largest risk factor Any study that attempts to evaluate the effects of air pollution on lung cancer...

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... What we breath impacts our health  Pure Air nitrogen (78%),Oxygen (21%), Argon, CO2 +  Various gaseous pollutants including: – SO2, NO2, CO, O3 +  Particulate matter: ... diameter) +  Other air toxics Wood Smoke Introduction to Particulate Matter (PM) EPA PM Criteria Document, 2004 EPA PM Criteria Document, 2004 How small are fine particles? Human Hair (60 mm diameter) ... PM2.5 • Shut down July 1986-August 1987 • Natural Experiment Large difference in air quality when inversions trap air pollution in valley Utah Valley: Clean day Utah Valley: Dirty day (PM10 = 220...

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... data in an analysis of the air pollution effects on terrestrial ecosystems in border areas between Norway and Russia Environ Monit Assessment 49: 51–85 Traaen T.S., Moiseenko T., Dauvalter V., ... hypothesis that there is a differentiation in the impact and geographical distribution of the effects of pollutants on epiphytic lichens, ground vegetation and the growth and crown condition of Scots ... numbers denote increasing distance from Nikel (Fig and Table Boreal env res vol 14 • Vegetation and air pollutants from a nickel–copper industrial complex 281 Fig location of the monitoring plots 450...

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... cases (see Figs 4b and 4c) 4.2 Effects on ecosystems Effects of air pollution on the land ecosystem sink for carbon can be significant due to reductions in ozone-induced plant damage (Figure 5, see ... include: (1) the effects of air pollution policy on overall demand for fossil fuels and individual demands for coal, oil and gas; (2) the effects of caps on black carbon (as a regulated air pollutant) ... representative of a real comprehensive air pollution control approach One important caveat in interpreting our results is that we are neglecting the effects of air pollutant controls on: (a) the overall...

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... environments, commonly called Table Sources and characteristics of varied indoor air pollutants and associated health effects7 Pollutant* Sources and characteristics Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)8 ... concentrations of pollutants in indoor air Therefore, indoor exposure, including that in occupational settings, dominates total exposure for many pollutants Indoor sources of air pollution can ... concentrations of pollutants depend on the quantity of emissions, the volume of the polluted space, and the rate of exchange between indoor and outdoor air The principal indoor pollutants vary...

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... consider that PM10 is not a particularly good air pollutant to focus on when considering the health effects of motor vehicle air pollution An air pollutant directly related to emissions from motor ... a brief background to the reasons why air pollution causes health concerns, and in broad terms the nature of the health effects 2.2 Health effects of air pollutants from motor vehicles It has ... applied, effects would have been seen at lower concentrations This is an early illustration of a feature of the effects of air pollution - known as the 'threshold effect' The threshold, for any pollutant...

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... relates to what specific air pollutants, combinations of pollutants, sources of pollutants, and characteristics of pollutants are most responsible for the observed health effects. ” Nevertheless, ... important drivers of at least some effects that can also be caused by PM This point is central to the “copollutant” dilemma, that is, the difficulty of parsing the effects of air pollution among PM and ... contrast in PM and copollutant composition) currently available to epidemiologists are not adequate to allow them to parse the effects among PM and copollutants with confidence Most copollutants are...

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