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A Study on Estimating PM Emission from Asphalt-Concrete Manufacturing Facilities (아스콘 제조 시설에서의 먼지 배출량 산정 방안 연구)

  • Jang, Kee-Won;Lee, Sang-Bo;Kim, Jong-Hyeon;Kim, Hyoung-Chun;Hong, Ji-Hyung;Kim, Sang-Kyun
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.37-47
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    • 2014
  • In this study, field measurement was carried out for reasonable improvement of asphalt concrete manufacturing facilities' PM emissions estimation method. Through those, this study calculated PM emission factor and tried to estimate PM emissions from asphalt concrete manufacturing facilities suitable for domestic characteristics. As a result, the efficiency of the PM control device was measured as 99.9%. Using this, uncontrolled PM emission factor was calculated. PM emission factor was calculated 10.97 kg/ton at 23 asphalt concrete manufacturing facilities of 22 workplaces. The PM current emission factor of the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is 14.4 kg/ton, the factor calculated from this study is about 24% lower than the EPA standard.

Air Pollution Reduction Strategies of World Major Ports

  • Han, Chul-Hwan
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.48
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    • pp.27-56
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    • 2010
  • Pollution emissions from international shipping and port activities have a significant impact on public health and global climate changes. The purpose of this paper is to review the status of pollution mitigation measures implemented to date in port industry and find out some implications for Korean ports. For this aim, the clean air strategies of the world major ports including six USA ports (Los Angeles/Long Beach, Now York/New Jersey, and Seattle and Tacoma), two European ports (Rotterdam and Gothenburg) and Busan Port were considered. Various measures to reduce emission from ports are evaluated by sectors-ocean going vessels, cargo handling equipments, truck and rail-, on the basis of categories such as reduction control technologies, operational changes and market-based measures. The policy implications of this paper are as follows. First, Clean Air Act Plans of Korean ports are required as soon as possible. Second, integrated approach is required to reduce emission effectively. Finally, the effect of port-related emission reduction can be maximized when various measures are conducted on a regional basis including neighboring ports. Furthermore, regional or global-based approach is useful to guarantee the level playing field among ports.

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Phytoremediation of Urban Air Pollution

  • Fang, Qin;Wang, Yun;Jin, Jie
    • Journal of Urban Science
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.35-39
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    • 2019
  • With the rapid progress of society and economic growth, more and more factories are put into construction, although to a certain extent to promote the development of our country's economy, but the waste gas and waste water produce also harm the environment.Among them, air pollution causes great damage to the environment and harms human health.In order to protect people's safety and health, people began to look for some measures to control air pollution, one of the most effective way is to plant more green plants, using plants for air purification.

Research on Air Pollution Status and Its Control Technology in China

  • Xia, Sai;Yang, Zhen Yu;Jin, Jie
    • Journal of Urban Science
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.47-52
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    • 2019
  • China's rapid economic growth has also caused serious air pollution, endangering the health of the people and the good operation of the surrounding ecological environment.In this paper, the current situation of air pollution in China is briefly described, and the sources and changing trends of major air pollutants (including PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NO2, CO and O3)are analyzed. Meanwhile, the treatment technologies and measures for atmospheric pollutants under the current situation.

Air Pollution History, Regulatory Changes, and Remedial Measures of the Current Regulatory Regimes in Korea (우리나라 대기오염 역사, 규제의 변천, 현행 규제제도의 개선방안)

  • Kim, Dong-Sool
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.353-368
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    • 2013
  • All Koreans had suffered heavily from municipal and industrial air pollution problems since 1960's to 1980's. However the levels of $SO_2$, CO, and Pb have been dramatically decreased since 1990's due to various air pollutants' reduction policies under the provisions of the 1978 Environmental Preservation Act and the 1990 Air Quality Preservation Act such as increasing the supply of low-sulfur fuel, the use of cleaner fuel, no use of solid fuel, and so on. Even though the national ambient air quality standard has been strengthened to protect public health and welfare, the levels of $NO_2$, $O_3$, and $PM_{10}$ frequently exceed the corresponding standards; for example, only 4 stations (1.7%) out of 239 nationwide monitoring stations satisfied the 24-hr based PM10 standard in 2011. Moreover, upto the present time, since there are serious underlying policies of economism and growth-first which can not be solely solved by the environmental laws, it is difficult to root out undesirable social evils such as public indifference, passive academic activities, complacent government bureaucracy, insufficient social responsibility of enterprise, and radical activities of environmental groups. The paper initially reviewed air pollution history of Korea with surveying various environmental factors affecting in/out-door air pollution in the past Korea. Further this study extensively investigated legal and political changes on air pollution control and management for the last 50 years, and then intensively discussed the present environment-related laws and policies unreasonably enforced in Korea. It is necessary to practically revise many outdated legal policies based on health-oriented thinking and on our current economic levels as well.

A Study on Calculation of Air Pollutants Emission Factors for Construction Equipment (건설기게의 대기오염물질 배출계수 산정을 위한 연구)

  • lim, Jae-Hyun;Jung, Sung-Woon;Lee, Tae-Woo;Kim, Jong-Choon;Seo, Chung-Youl;Ryu, Jung-Ho;Hwang, Jin-Woo;Kim, Sun-Moon;Eom, Dong-Sup
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.188-195
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    • 2009
  • Generally. mobile sources of air pollution were classified in on-road and non-road. Due to increased registration number of construction equipment in Korea. updated emission factors for non-road mobile sources, such as construction machinery. should be developed. NONROAD model of U.S. EPA already has introduced transient adjustment factors and sulfur adjustment factors for emission factors of diesel powered engine. In addition to this. European Environment Agency (EEA) has proposed emission factors for off-road machinery including several types of construction equipment. In this study. six types of construction equipment, such as excavator. forklift, loader, crane, roller and bulldozer, were studied to estimate emission factors based on total registration status in Korea. Total 445 construction equipments between 2004 and 2007 model year were tested with KC1-8 mode and air pollutants (CO, THC, $NO_x$, and PM) were measured. After statistical estimation and calculation, emission factors for CO, THC, $NO_x$, and PM for excavator, forklift, loader, crane, roller and bulldozer were provided and compared with previous emission factors. Moreover, updated emission factors for six types of construction equipment in this study were verified after comparison with emission factors of U.S. EPA. Finally, estimated emission amounts of four air pollutants were suggested according to six types of construction equipment.

Using Different Method for petroleum Consumption Forecasting, Case Study: Tehran

  • Varahrami, Vida
    • East Asian Journal of Business Economics (EAJBE)
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.17-21
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: Forecasting of petroleum consumption is useful in planning and management of petroleum production and control of air pollution. Research Design, Data and Methodology: ARMA models, sometimes called Box-Jenkins models after the iterative Box-Jenkins methodology usually used to estimate them, are typically applied to auto correlated time series data. Results: Petroleum consumption modeling plays a role key in big urban air pollution planning and management. In this study three models as, MLFF, MLFF with GARCH (1,1) and ARMA(1,1), have been investigated to model the petroleum consumption forecasts. Certain standard statistical parameters were used to evaluate the performance of the models developed in this study. Based upon the results obtained in this study and the consequent comparative analysis, it has been found that the MLFF with GARCH (1,1) have better forecasting results.. Conclusions: Survey of data reveals that deposit of government policies in recent yeas, petroleum consumption rises in Tehran and unfortunately more petroleum use causes to air pollution and bad environmental problems.