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  2. Global strategies
  3. Deacidifying flue gases

Deacidifying flue gases

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Broader

Enforcing air quality controls
Presentable

Narrower

Removing sulphur oxides from industrial emissions
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Problem

Acidic precipitation
Excellent
Sulphuric acid mist
Presentable
Sulphur trioxide as a pollutant
Presentable
Sulphur dioxide as a pollutant
Presentable
Nitrogen oxides as air pollutants
Presentable
Industrial and domestic heating emissions as air pollutants
Presentable
Increase in nitrous oxides in the atmosphere
Presentable
Disposal of pollutants from chimney scrubbers
Presentable
Deterioration of stained glass due to acid rain
Presentable
Acidic soils
Presentable
Damage to cultural artefacts by environmental pollution
Unpresentable
Acid mists
Unpresentable

Value

Emissions
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Reference

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Technologies for Control of Air Pollution from Stationary Sources
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Air-Borne Sulphur Pollution Effects and Control

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(E) Emanations of other strategies
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
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Language
English
1A4N
J0567
DOCID
12005670
D7NID
207251
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/deacidifying-flue-gases
Last update
Dec 3, 2024