Industrial factories are major contributors to air pollution. The amount of toxic gases that factories release into the air increases health and environmental damages. In factories, toxic materials and gases, like carbon dioxide and methane, are burned and pumped out into the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide and methane absorb radiation from the sun and, therefore, affect the temperature of the planet directly. Additionally, US factories emit 1. But on the bright side, there are already several industry leaders that are reinventing the way the run factories to help the environment and to improve the atmosphere inside for the workers.
By integrating updated green building standards, some factories run while also contributing to the planet—with sunnier spaces, healthier air, and total self-sufficiency. These factories produce their own energy, reuse water, reducing—if not eliminating altogether—waste, and use materials made from sustainable sources.
It may sound too good to be true but Industrial Louvers, a year-old company, is actually doing it! In October , Industrial Louvers built a new 50,square-foot addition to their factory where they make custom louvers, decorative grills, sunshades, and screens for building exteriors.
The stronger roof will hold the photovoltaic solar panels which they are looking to install by around The electricity produced by these panels will run the energy-intensive compressors and other electric machinery. The roof will also have the ability to harvest rainwater that will take 60, gallons of water to an underground holding tank—which they will then use for the wash system at then end of the production line.
But the company sees it as an investment in the industry and its employees. They will be able to improve the air quality in the building by removing the toxic chemicals. We feel it pays off there. We want this to be a place where people enjoy coming to work. This is all great news. There are a lot of ways you can give back to the environment. Aside from saving energy, this can also lead to more time saved—helping you attain a faster turnaround time and avoid bottlenecks. Plus, it might also improve your output!
These generators mostly installed next to their services or along the road which is not an appropriate location. Therefore, by importing exhaust gases into the air they create many complications to the people who are traveling on the roads and the resident. Smoke opacity of industrial gas is also a parameter which has considerable potential to enhance environmental air pollution by smoke particles emission.
It was noticed that boilers operating on furnace oil have larger value of smoke than on natural gas. According to an estimate, at least different chemicals have been identified in air through sampling of various nature. A term commonly used to describe any harmful chemical or other substance that pollutes the air we breathe, thereby reducing its life-sustaining quality is called air pollutant. In principle, air pollutants refer to any chemical substance that exceeds the concentration or characteristics identified as safe for the natural ingredients in the air both by nature or anthropogenically.
More strictly, pollutants can be defined a substance which is potentially unsafe to the well-being or health of humans, plant and animal life, or ecosystems. Indoor smoke poses a health threat to 3. Air pollution is linked to a high incidence of respiratory diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and asthma [ 12 ].
According to estimates from the American Lung Association, nearly million people are at risk due to air pollution [ 13 ]. Although these effects come from long-term exposure, air pollution can also cause acute problems such as sneezing and coughing, eye discomfort, headache, and dizziness [ 14 ].
Particles smaller than 10 microns classified as PM10 or PM2. Pollutants are commonly classified into solid, liquid, or gaseous substances that are discharged into the air from a fixed or mobile source, then transmit through air, and contribute in chemo physical transformation, and eventually return to the ground. It is impossible to describe the full range of potential sources and actual damage caused by various sources of air pollution but few which are more vulnerable are discussed below:.
Fossil fuels as coal and oil for electricity production and road transportation, add huge amount of air pollutants like carbon dioxide, nitrogen and sulfur dioxide. Sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and fly ash are produced as main pollutants if coal is used as a fuel. Major pollutants during combustion of oil are oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide, whereas coal emits particulate air pollution to the atmosphere. Similarly, important air pollutants emitted from power station are particulate matter fly ash and soot oxides of nitrogen NO 2 and NO and sulfur oxides SO 3 and SO 2 [ 16 , 17 ].
These pollutants and other closely related chemicals are primarily source for acid rain. When PM is released into the atmosphere due to traffic and industries, these PM scatter the visible part of the sunlight radiation, but the other part of the spectrum particularly inferred and far-infrared, cause the internal heating effect of the air atmosphere below the PM surface.
The Sun radiation is heating our air from outside and the traffic and industries from inside. And the PM surface is like a shield or barrier, through the heat diffusion cannot penetrate bidirectional ways. Volcanic eruption disperses an enormous amount of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere along with ash and smoke particle sometimes causes the temperature to rise up over the years. Particles in the air, based on their chemical composition, can also have a direct impact of being separated from climate change.
They either change the composition or size and may deplete the nutrients biosphere, damage crops, and forests and destroy cultural monuments such as monuments and statues.
Many living and non-living sources emit carbon dioxide that contribute largely as pollutant. Carbon dioxide is the most common greenhouse gas, among many others which traps heat into the atmosphere via infrared radiation matching vibrations and causes climate change through global warming. Over the past years, humans have driven enough CO 2 into the atmosphere to make its levels higher than they have been for hundreds of thousands of years.
Air pollution in many cases prevents photosynthesis, which has a significant impact on the plants evolution, which has serious consequences for purifying the air we breathe. It also results to form acid rain, atmospheric precipitation in the form of rain, snow or fog, frost, which is released at the time of fossil fuels burning and converted by contact with water vapor in the atmosphere.
Industrial process emits huge amounts of organic compounds carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and chemicals into the air. A high quantity of carbon dioxide is the reasons for the greenhouse effect in the air.
As the greenhouse gases absorbs infrared radiation from the surface of the planet so its presence is good for the planet.
The recent climate change is due to excessive quantity of these gases as well as PM into the atmosphere [ 18 , 19 ]. Different greenhouse gases contribute differently in global warming due to their unique physical and chemical properties, molecular weight and the lifetime in the atmosphere.
A simple working method can calculate the relative contribution of the unit emissions of each gas relative to the cumulative CO 2 unit emissions over a fixed period of time [ 20 , 21 ]. Therefore, global warming potential GWP can be defined as the warming effect of any greenhouse gas relative to CO 2 over a certain period of time. Greenhouse gas emissions from various sources have led to climate change, which has been accompanied by an increase in greenhouse gases [ 22 , 23 ].
Greenhouse gas emissions change the Climate that is a global issue having significantly negative impacts on economic growth humans, and natural resources [ 24 , 25 , 26 ]. Among all the greenhouse gases, CO 2 and CH 4 cause major global surface temperature increase [ 28 ].
These gases are emitted by natural and anthropogenically. After carbon dioxide, methane is the second gas that contributes to global warming. Methane has larger impacts as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, with global warming potential GWP s 21—25 times higher than CO 2 [ 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 ]. Agriculture activities often release harmful chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers [ 33 ].
The fact that the composition of U. The implicit pollution tax that U. For example, if all air pollution regulations for U. The increasing stringency of environmental regulation accounts for much of the to decrease in pollution emissions from U. Despite the plant-level relationship between pollution and productivity documented in Figure 2, changes in productivity had smaller effects on U.
While productivity growth reduced pollution per unit of output, productivity growth also increased the total level of output. Productivity allows workers, machines, fossil fuels, and other productive inputs to be reallocated to new uses, and those new uses also emit pollution. Unless productivity growth differs substantially between clean and dirty industries, it has limited ability to affect pollution. To test the relevance of this analysis, the study compares the inferred pollution tax against one important regulation—the NO x Budget Trading Program, which is a cap-and-trade system for manufacturing plants and electricity generation units.
The analysis shows that the inferred measure of pollution taxes jumps substantially in regulated states and industries in the years after this regulation began see Figure 3.
Since a variety of forces may have contributed to the reduction in U. Although productivity and trade have an effect, the study finds that increases in the stringency of environmental regulation account for the large majority of the decrease in pollution emissions from U.
While the findings do not focus on a single policy lever or regulatory reform, they do broadly suggest that environmental regulation is a primary driver of changes in pollution emissions from U. Simply put, regulations have been, and will continue to be, the most effective policy tool to reduce pollution in the U. Manufacturing Declining? Chay, Kenneth Y. Henderson, J. At the same time, many factory managers and company owners focus on reducing air pollution because they are aware of the potential negative impact it may have.
Greener, more energy-efficient operations tend to reduce the amount of pollution a factory generates. Factory operators can also employ abatement mechanisms that help destroy VOCs, HAPs, and other pollutants before they enter the environment. Different abatement techniques are efficient for specific types of pollutants, so you need to evaluate your operation to find the ideal technique. Four of the most commonly used abatement techniques include:.
Known as RTOs, regenerative thermal oxidizers employ high temperatures to destroy pollutants before they are released into the environment. The energy of the actual industrial operation is used in the abatement process whenever possible, which involves a network of high-efficiency heat exchangers. Recuperative thermal oxidizers also referred to as TOs, rely on high temperatures and heavy-duty steel heat exchangers to destroy VOCs before they enter the atmosphere.
Catalytic oxidizers use a combination of chemical catalysts and high temperatures to break down pollutants into harmless compounds. Rotary concentrators combined with oxidizers are ideal for chemical processing, surface coating, and wood finishing facilities, just to name a few. Feel free to give us a call or fill out our online contact form today!
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