Due to destructive development approach, finally this generation reached to self-created suicidal gas chambers commonly identified as cities with severe air pollutants. This can be observed across the world specially in fastest growing big economies of the world like India and China. There are many dimensions and factors need to be investigated to find out the root-causes.
Please suggest with your solutions based expertised opinions for:
What are the
- Major air pollutants?
- It's Cause/Effects?
- Affordable solutions?
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Industries that pollute are known in local governments. There are solutions that can be applied, such as filters of sulphur gases, etc. Such industries can face severe penalties if they don't comply with new restrictive rules on releasing gases into the air.
We have an example in Canada; the city of Flin Flon used to have a moonscape around it, but now it has turned green due to filtering of pollutants that used to be thrown into the air.
With respect to your title figure: such a mask does not filter out any of the smog- pollutants
Dear Jai,
Based on my experience on studying air pollution control strategies, I will bring up some explanations with respect to nitric oxide and nitric dioxide pollutants (NOx).
- Major air pollutants?
NOx Compounds
- It's Cause/Effects?
Photochemical smog, ground-level ozone, formation of particulate matter, acid rain
- Affordable solutions?
Catalytic oxidation of NO to NO2 (in flue gas conditions with high efficiency), followed by a wet scrubber process or other gas/liquid filtration technique.
In the following articles, you can find informative information regarding an effective method to prepare and use porous polymers as hydrophobic catalysts for NO oxidation:
https://ubir.buffalo.edu/xmlui/handle/10477/78502
Article NO oxidation in dry and humid conditions using hyper-cross-l...
Best,
Ramin
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