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Pollution Articles
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Air Quality - an Overview [Jun 2010]
The importance of regulation and the accumulation of reliable data cannot be overestimated
Air quality continues to become a more and more pertinent issue to people as they get on with their busy lives. The quality of the air that we breathe means different things to different people. Of concern to all of us is the potential for negative effects to our health. Both UK and EU legislation1 recognises the ‘worst offenders’, namely sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, particulate matter and heavy metals including mercury and lead. Epidemiological studies, past and present have made the link between increased levels of pollution in the atmosphere and mortality rate. The ‘Great’ London Smog of December 1952 was accountable by some estimations for the premature death of up to 12,000 people2. The causes were stable atmospheric conditions, cold weather, but pertinently the release of enhanced masses of sulphur dioxide and particulate matter from domestic and industrial burning of coal and other solid fuels. The likelihood of such an event happening in the western world today is remote. The use of ‘cleaner’ fuels and tighter industrial regulation ensure that even under the most unfavourable meteorological conditions, major urban centres are not prone to the pea-soup conditions of yesteryear.
Heavy Metals' Monitoring [Jun 2010]
Monitoring airborne heavy metals in rural areas
Much of the focus on measuring heavy metals in the ambient atmosphere has been to establish monitoring sites at locations close to local sources of heavy metals in industrial and urban areas. However, there is also a specific legislative requirement to monitor heavy metals in rural areas where concentrations are considerably lower. The Rural Heavy Metals Monitoring and Deposition Network determines the concentrations of heavy metals in samples of ambient air and rainwater collected at remote rural sites across the UK, which are not unduly influenced by local sources of anthropogenic emissions. This article describes the operation of this monitoring network and how the data are used to determine background levels of heavy metals in the UK (and thereby demonstrate compliance of the UK with the relevant EU legislation for rural areas), and in the quantification of heavy metal deposition from the atmosphere.
More or Less Air Quality - Monitoring Air Quality at the Personal Scale [Mar 2010]
A synergistic collision of technologies is offering a new chance to create air quality networks at an affordable cost. Lower power, lower cost GPS plus GSM networking via mobile phone network are combining with improved low cost gas sensors that sense gas concentrations at parts-per-billion (ppb) levels. The result? Low cost air quality networks that can monitor urban air quality in real time.
Environmental Monitoring Standards and Methods - Selection of standards for emission monitoring [Dec 2009]
With the increasing requirement for the installation of continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) it is important that capital investment is protected and that instrumentation gives reliable, meaningful and repeatable data. Fitting MCERTS-approved equipment is one element but it is extremely important that the system is verified. The verification process requires the use of standard reference methods to underpin the data.
Air Pollution - Monitoring Particulates [Dec 2009]
An effective monitoring strategy allows the impact from particulate to be assessed and controlled.
Clean air is an essential requirement for the health and wellbeing of both the human race and the environment we live in, but achieving it is a constant battle with air pollution. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than two million premature deaths each year can be attributed to the effects of urban outdoor and indoor air pollution1, a shocking statistic indeed.
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Monitoring For Heavy Metals [Dec 2009]
Many articles have been written regarding pollution by heavy metals in this and other journals and we all have perception of heavy metals. But what is a heavy metal? Firstly let’s look at the dictionary definition of a metal: An element which is shiny, malleable and ductile, is a good conductor of heat and electricity the atoms of which readily loose electrons to form positive ions (cations).
Contaminated Soils [Sep 2009]
Expanding the potential of biomass crop production: reusing brownfield sites and biodegradable wastes
Monitoring Heavy Metals [Jun 2009]
Recent changes to the monitoring of heavy metals in ambient air
The UK Heavy Metals Monitoring Network measures the concentration of metals in ambient air in order to assess the UK’s compliance with European air quality legislation and the exposure of the general population to potentially harmful compounds. This article describes the operation of the Network, and how its constituent monitoring sites around the UK have recently been reorganised in order to ensure compliance with European legislation.
Environmental Noise Monitoring [Dec 2008]
Standards and legislation
Noise pollution is a problem controlled and managed by numerous pieces of legislation, standards and documents providing guidance. In the UK, each piece of guidance or legislation varies sufficiently to cause a certain degree of conflict, which can lead to confusion and conflict amongst site operators, developers, regulators and the general public.
Source Tracing Techniques [Mar 2008]
Water movement and relative impact of pollution sources on water quality
The Environment Agency (EA) defines tracers as follows: “Tracers are substances which may be used to deduce the direction, destination and velocity of water or other substances”. Source tracing is a technique that uses tracers to track the movement of water to determine the relative contribution of various sources on its composition at specific points. For example, a tracer might be used to determine if faecal pollution from an effluent discharge pipe is passing out to sea or returning to the coast and thereby impacting water quality on the nearby beaches.
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Far REACHing Objectives [Oct 2007]
The New European Chemicals Regulation
How do you objectively assess the risk of a chemical? Ever tried to compare safety data sheets on the same substance from different suppliers? What are the risk management measures you need when using a chemical in your factory? What should you do to minimise the environmental impact of a chemical when it leaves your site? Who really decides what constitutes an acceptable risk of using a chemical? Are chemical users across Europe playing on a level playing field and just where did those lists of banned chemicals come from?
Respiratory Respite [Apr 2007]
Breathing cleaner air ....
The most important defence against respiratory hazards is to control the contamination at source and stop it entering the air in the first instance. This however, does not provide the solution to all circumstances and when it does not it will be necessary to use respiratory protective equipment.
Monitoring and Forecasting The Weather [Jun 2006]
Advancing the development and use of forecasting technology
Sustainability of Industrial Water [Jun 2006]
Climate change impacts on industrial water, waste and wastewater
Environmental Laboratory Testing Contaminated land analysis in the 21st century: A European perspective [Jun 2006]
'In the present advanced state of chemistry, very expensive and complicated instruments are becoming indispensably necessary for ascertaining the analysis ... of bodies with the requisite precision as to quantity and proportion.' Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) in 'Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order.'
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VOC Detection and Measurement Techniques [Jun 2006]
Outlining the application of laws surrounding Volatile Organic Compounds
Combustion and Emissions Monitoring [Mar 2006]
MCERTS - its background and wider applicability
Remediating Contaminated Land [Mar 2006]
The costs and benefits of land remediation
Something in the Air Monitoring Air Pollution [Sep 2005]
Furthering air quality modelling and research
The Generation of Dust is Not a New Phenomenon [Sep 2005]
An effective approach to ambient dust monitoring in the UK
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Slim Down Your Waste And Pile on the Pounds [Mar 2005]
How innovative waste water treatment and removal can benefit your bottom line and the environment
Waste management goalposts are on the move again, with many businesses playing ‘catch up’ in an effort to make sure their waste water is removed, recycled and replaced with minimum environmental damage and minimal cost.
