a new environmental chamber facility

Mexico City’s air pollution is a persistent and pervasive environmental problem that has imposed health and economic costs on society. With Mexico’s expenditures on controls calculated in several millions of pesos per year and slow progress toward compliance with air quality standards, a critical need exits for better and more effective abatement strategies. With the current Federal Environmental Policy on fossil fuel burning for power utilities and industrial processes shifting from heavy fuel oils to low sulfur natural gas, it becomes important to characterize industrial emissions as well as residential emissions that use gaseous fuels for establishing their impact on the Mexican airshed. Concurrently, it is recognized that an efficient strategy to abate air pollution in Mexico City consists of improving the properties of Mexican liquid fuels for transportation. Although liquid hydrocarbons have been substantially improved to comply with environmental regulations not much has been done to evaluate exhaust gas emissions and their role in ozone and aerosol formation.