Estimation of Fugitive Emission of Organic Hazardous Air Pollutants from Oil Refinery Industry

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

Decreasing emission factor of pollutants in an oil refinery by renovating the furnace design

The significant consumption of gas in the World results in the emission of greenhouse gases into atmosphere. Abadan refinery has always been the biggest and oldest oil refinery in the Middle East and has a variety of refined products. After six months of collecting data about pollutant concentration emitted from a stack of old furnaces of units 75 and new unit 200, the emission factor of the po...

Hazardous Air Pollutants Special Report

While recent reports have commented on the elevated ambient levels of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in certain areas of Houston, relative to other cities, few studies have assessed the health effects of HAPs for Houstonians and none have evaluated the association between ambient levels of these pollutants and lymphohematopoietic cancer risk in this population. To begin to address this deficit...

Hazardous air pollutants and asthma.

Asthma has a high prevalence in the United States, and persons with asthma may be at added risk from the adverse effects of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Complex mixtures (fine particulate matter and tobacco smoke) have been associated with respiratory symptoms and hospital admissions for asthma. The toxic ingredients of these mixtures are HAPs, but whether ambient HAP exposures can induce a...

Benefits of Regulating Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal and Oil-Fired Utilities in the United States.

Fired Utilities in the United States Elsie M. Sunderland,*,†,‡ Charles T. Driscoll, Jr.,* James K. Hammitt,‡ Philippe Grandjean,‡ John S. Evans,‡ Joel D. Blum, Celia Y. Chen, David C. Evers, Daniel A. Jaffe, Robert P. Mason, Shaun Goho, and Wendy Jacobs †Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States ‡Harvard...