Guidelines for the design, installation and operation of incinerators

Incineration of hazardous and medical (clinical) waste crepates an air pollution problem which s at the moment controlled in terms of the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act of 1965. It is exercised by officials from local authorities in accordance with part 3 of the Act and is very specialized. Consequently, officials from local authorities are not always trained to do this, especially at the smaller municipalities. Therefore, this function is dealt with in the wrong manner, or not dealt with at all. Incinirators are to be classified into three categories, namely incinirators where the refuse that is being burnt is also used as fuel or as supplementary fuel, incinerators which are not used for medical and hazardous waste destruction. If halogens like chlorine are present in teh waste, then there is a difinite possibility that dioxins and furans will be emitted during the incineration process. With a halogen content of more than 1% in the waste a minimum tempature of 1100 degree celsius for 2 senconds at the inner wall of the secondary chamber is imperative. For cytotoxic waste teh temperature must be at least 1000 degree celsius.

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Spatial Correlation of Air Pollution and Its Causes in Northeast China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph182010619 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (20) ◽

pp. 10619

Author(s):

Mingze Du ◽

Weijiang Liu ◽

Yizhe Hao

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Northeast China ◽

Spatial Association ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Northeastern China ◽

Control Measures ◽

Liaoning Province ◽

Pollution Problem ◽

The Status ◽

Respirable Particulate

To understand the status of air pollution in northeastern China, we explore the structure of air pollution transmission networks and propose targeted policy recommendations. Using air pollution data from 35 cities in northeastern China for a total of 879 periods from 6 January 2015 to 3 June 2017, this paper used social network analysis (SNA) to construct a spatial association network of air pollution in the region, and analyzed the spatial association of air pollution among cities and its causes in an attempt to reveal the transmission path of air pollution in the region. The results show that inter-city air pollution in northeast China forms a complex and stable correlation network with obvious seasonal differences of “high in winter and low in summer”. Different cities in the region play the roles of “spillover”, “intermediary” and “receiver” of air pollution in the network. Small respirable particulate (PM2.5) pollution constitutes a significant component of air pollution in northeast China, which spreads from Liaoning province to Heilongjiang province via Jilin province. Therefore, regional joint pollution prevention and control measures should be adopted to combat the air pollution problem, and different treatment measures should be developed for different city “roles” in the pollution network, in order to fundamentally solve the air pollution problem in the region.

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Air quality management in Botswana

Clean Air Journal ◽

10.17159/2410-972x/2017/v27n1a9 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MO Akinola ◽

M Lekonpane ◽

EO Dada

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Air Quality ◽

Quality Management ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Atmospheric Environment ◽

Air Quality Management ◽

Prevention Act ◽

History Of ◽

Fine Particulate Matters

This paper examines air pollution situation and the history of air quality management in Botswana. The current air quality management in Botswana is still largely underpinned by the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act of 1971, supplemented by the more recently enacted legislations such as the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Act of 2010 and the Ambient Air Quality - Limits for Common Pollutants of 2012 published by the Botswana Bureau of Standards. Though commendable efforts have been made toward legislating against air and other forms of pollution, these have not yielded expected results in view of the prevailing levels of air pollutants like sulphur dioxide and fine particulate matters in the country’s atmospheric environment. Legislation as a sole measure may not be effective in tackling this challenge. Rather, government should also address some root-causes of the problem by making policies and programmes that will reduce unemployment and increase the earning capacity of citizenry. This will, among other things, effectively check poverty-induced biomass burning in the country. The paper looks at some other challenges of air pollution management and suggestions are made to tackle the identified problems.

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PROBLEMS CAUSED BY SMALL PIG FARM ODOR AROUND THE WESTERN SONGKHLA LAKE BASIN

University Of Bengkulu Law Journal ◽

10.33369/ubelaj.v2i1.8008 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Papontee Teeraphan

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Lake Basin ◽

Urgent Problem ◽

The Public ◽

Pig Farms ◽

Pig Farm ◽

The Government ◽

The Moment ◽

Source Of Information ◽

Proper Solutions

Pollution is currently a significant issue arising awareness throughout the world. In Thailand, pollution can often be seen in any part of the country. Air pollution is pointed as an urgent problem. This pollution has not damaged only to human health and lives, it has destroyed environment, and possibly leading to violence. In Phattalung, air pollution is affecting to the residents’ lives. Especially, when the residents who are mostly agriculturists have not managed the waste resulted from the farm. In Phattalung, at the moment, there are many pig farms, big and small. Some of them are only for consuming for a family, some, however, are being consumed for the business which pigs will be later purchased by big business companies. Therefore, concerning pollution, the researcher and the fund giver were keen to focus on the points of the air pollution of the small pig farms. This is because it has been said that those farms have not been aware on the pollution issue caused by the farms. Farm odor is very interesting which can probably lead to following problems. The researcher also hopes that this research can be used as a source of information by the government offices in order to be made even as a policy or a proper legal measurement. As the results, the study shows that, first, more than half of the samples had smelled the farm odor located nearby their communities, though it had not caused many offenses. Second, the majority had decided not to act or response in order to solve the odor problem, but some of them had informed the officers. The proper solutions in reducing offenses caused by pig farm odor were negotiation and mediation. Last, the majority does not perceive about the process under the Public Health Act B.E. 2535.

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DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FURNACE OF KHANDSARI (COTTAGE SUGAR INDUSTRY) FOR AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL

Clean Air ◽

10.1615/interjenercleanenv.7.1.50 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Mukesh Sharma ◽

Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Prevention And Control ◽

Sugar Industry ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Pollution Prevention And Control ◽

And Control

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Environmental Regulation and Exports: Evidence from the Comprehensive Air Pollution Policy in China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18031316 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 1316 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hong Chen ◽

Yang Xu

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Environmental Regulation ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Firm Entry ◽

Entry And Exit ◽

Control Plan ◽

Heterogeneous Effects ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Firm Entry And Exit

The impact of environmental regulation has been an important topic. Based on the Chinese Custom Database and China City Statistical Yearbook, this paper investigates the effect of environmental regulation on export values and explores potential mechanisms and heterogeneous effects. Taking advantage of China’s first comprehensive air pollution prevention and control plan, the Air Pollution Control in Key Zones policy, as a quasi-natural experiment, we employ the difference-in-differences method to examine the causal relationship between environmental regulation and exports. We find the statistically significant and negative effect of environmental regulation on exports at the city level. Moreover, we find that the potential mechanism is the change in export values caused by firm entry and exit, especially by exiters, rather than the change in the number of exporting firms in the city caused by firm entry and exit. In addition, we find the heterogeneous effects of environmental regulation based on the differences of environmental policy across cities and the Broad Economic Categories classification.

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Coordinated control of PM2.5 and O3 is urgently needed in China after implementation of the “Air pollution prevention and control action plan”

Chemosphere ◽

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129441 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 270 ◽

pp. 129441

Author(s):

Hui Zhao ◽

Kaiyu Chen ◽

Zhen Liu ◽

Yuxin Zhang ◽

Tian Shao ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Prevention And Control ◽

Action Plan ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Coordinated Control ◽

Control Action ◽

Pollution Prevention And Control ◽

And Control

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The Message of “APEC Blue” for the Prevention and Control of Urban Air Pollution in China

Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies ◽

10.1142/s2345748116500275 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 04 (04) ◽

pp. 1650027

Author(s):

Rong ZHU

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Prevention And Control ◽

Urban Air Pollution ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Warning System ◽

Weather Conditions ◽

Control Measures ◽

Atmospheric Pollutant ◽

And Control

Analysis of the meteorological conditions for atmospheric pollutant dispersion before and after the 2014 APEC meeting shows very significant effects of air pollution prevention and control measures on the meeting. It proves that the proper measures to control air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region are: establishing a regional emergency response mechanism to reduce emissions in the case of heavy air pollution, strengthening the local emergency response measures for emission reduction, and enhancing the early warning system for weather conditions conducive to heavy air pollution.

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