Point sources of air pollution

IN - DEPTH REVIEW Point sources of air pollution

Many people live near point sources of air pollution such as industrial sites and waste disposal operations and there are often suggestions of clusters of disease around such activities. Such alleged clusters will generate significant public concern and media interest and in many cases will warrant detailed investigation. However, the ability of current epidemiological methods to investigate su...

Point Sources of Pollution

Anthropogenic air pollution sources

What one experiences today as atmosphere is a transient snapshot and result of its evolutionary history. Much of the development and present status was explained based both on scientific knowledge, and combined with established facts, even speculation. The planet Earth was formed around 4600 million years ago by the gravitational accretion of relatively small rocks and dust, within the solar ne...

Quantification of Air Pollution Sources

RESUMO – Quantificação de Poluição do Ar – A atividade industrial é uma das principais causas da poluição do ar urbano. Várias técnicas são utilizadas para monitorar e analisar os agentes poluidores. A técnica de modelamento de receptor é uma delas. A aplicação de programação linear para a quantificação de fontes poluidoras do ar, utilizando o modelamento de receptor, é apresentada neste artigo...

Residential and Local Sources of Air Pollution

Since the early 1970s, environmental agencies have focussed most of their attention on large point sources and transport sources of air pollutants. The myriad of small sources scattered throughout suburban Australia, such as people’s heating appliances, lawnmowers and suburban restaurants, have received little attention. Perhaps this is simply because they are so dispersed or they may have been...