Air pollution impacts from open air burning

Sivertsen, Bjarne

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“…In this sense we carried out a multiple comparison of the ERI (Tukey's HSD Post Hoc Test), which established two homogeneous subgroups: the first group was made up of the environmental elements with the least risk of being affected by the landfills (surface water, ground water, and soil); the second group comprised atmosphere, and health and society, which were the environmental elements most at risk. These results confirm the health problem generated by such installations and highlight the existence of a totally inadequate operational structure in terms of sanitary conditions for the majority of landfills in South America and the Caribbean [2,9,10] where it is frequent the presence of people www.witpress. com, ISSN 1743-3541 (on-line) who recover waste at landfills and thus subsequently spread diseases and infection among their families and acquaintances [10,11].…”

Section: Quantification Of the Effect Of Waste Dumping Sites On Envirsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…These results confirm the health problem generated by such installations and highlight the existence of a totally inadequate operational structure in terms of sanitary conditions for the majority of landfills in South America and the Caribbean [2,9,10] where it is frequent the presence of people www.witpress. com, ISSN 1743-3541 (on-line) who recover waste at landfills and thus subsequently spread diseases and infection among their families and acquaintances [10,11].…”

Section: Quantification Of the Effect Of Waste Dumping Sites On Envirsupporting

confidence: 66%

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Environmental diagnosis of landfills in Venezuela using EVIAVE methodology

Paolini¹,

Ramos²,

Zamorano³

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The lack of modern and realistic waste management policies in Venezuela has led to uncontrolled waste dumping at landfills. Such landfills generate serious problems because of their location, design, and exploitation. Given this adverse state of affairs, it seems surprising that so little effort has been made to carry out an environmental diagnosis of landfill sites. The few existing studies have merely made inventories of waste disposal sites, and have limited themselves to pointing out the obvious, namely, the negative impact of such installations on the environment without determining cause-effect relations and without developing tools for defining strategic actions to solve this problem. The study presented in this paper uses EVIAVE, a method of environmental diagnosis developed by researchers at the University of Granada, to diagnose landfills in Venezuela. It was necessary to modify EVIAVE in order to adapt the method to the legal system and social context in Venezuela. The data obtained, after applying methodology to 22 landfills in the country, include a series of environmental indexes (Environment Landfill Index, Environmental Risk Index, Environmental Value Index and Probability of Contamination Index) which allowed us to quantify the relation of landfill dynamics and its influence on various environmental elements. The results of the study confirm that EVIAVE can be successfully used as a planning tool for strategic actions that will reduce the environmental impact produced by indiscriminate waste disposal.

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Section: Quantification Of the Effect Of Waste Dumping Sites On Envirsupporting

confidence: 66%

Section: Quantification Of the Effect Of Waste Dumping Sites On Envirsupporting

confidence: 66%

Environmental diagnosis of landfills in Venezuela using EVIAVE methodology

Paolini¹,

Ramos²,

Zamorano³

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…Especially in rural areas, households are almost equally likely to adopt backyard burning practices. While this is legal, it is not a favoured choice under environmental sustainability and public health criteria [43]. Home composting valorises garden waste into a useful soil conditioner, but this is not the case when burning the material.…”

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“…Home composting valorises garden waste into a useful soil conditioner, but this is not the case when burning the material. The generated smoke also creates air pollution and nuisance [43]. Backyard burning requires no investment, however, while the capital cost for composting is an important reason for drop-out for some citizens [44].…”

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Estimating the Generation of Garden Waste in England and the Differences between Rural and Urban Areas

et al. 2020

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Garden waste arising from private households represents a major component of the biodegradable municipal waste stream. To design effective waste valorisation schemes, detailed information about garden waste is a prerequisite. While the biochemical composition of this material is well documented, there is a lack of knowledge regarding both the quantities arising, and quantities entering the services operated by waste management authorities. This work studied the quantities of garden waste arisings at urban and rural households along with the disposal methods used. A door-to-door interview survey, an analysis of kerbside collections of garden waste, and an assessment of materials brought by citizens to a waste recycling site were carried out in Hampshire, UK. If extrapolated nationally, the results indicate that households in England produce an average of 0.79 kg of garden waste per day, or 288 kg per year. On a per capita basis, this corresponds to an annual arising of 120 kg per person, out of which around 70% enters the collection schemes of the waste management authorities. The quantity generated by rural and urban households differed substantially, with rural households producing 1.96 ± 1.35 kg per day and urban households 0.64 ± 0.46 kg per day. Rural households adopted self-sufficient methods of garden waste management such as home composting or backyard burning to a much greater extent compared with urban households. Less than half of the generated rural garden waste entered services operated by the waste collection authorities, while urban households strongly relied on these services. A detailed breakdown of the disposal routes chosen by urban and rural householders can support authorities in tailoring more effective waste management schemes.

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“…Спалювання органічного палива у топках електростанцій і котельнях призво-дить до забруднення атмосфери (Sivertsen, 2006). Наприклад, Придніпровська теплова електростанція, яка знаходиться на околиці міста Дніпропетровськ, що працює на вугіллі Західного Донбасу, щорічно викидає в атмосферу пил, сірчистий ангідрид, оксиди азоту, що у 2 -3 рази перевищують допустимі норми.…”

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Features of setting up a complex, combined and zero-waste gasifier plant

Tabachenko¹,

Saik²,

Lozynskyi³

et al. 2016

Min. miner. depos.

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Purpose. Setting up and implementation of complex, combined and non-waste power-chemical plant based on underground coal gasification with regard to analysis of its technical and economic efficiency. Methods.Research into the reliability of the gasifier plant components was performed by determining the sequence of processes and operations during underground coal gasification technology at all levels of the process.Findings. It was established that high reliability of coal gasification is ensured by stability of all constituents of the technological elements of the process. The basic steps of combining power and chemical plant specializing in synthetic hydrocarbons production are described. During gasifier plant operation, upgrading of equipment at the general level of mechanization between 0.5 -0.7 will not lead to a serious increase in productivity. Therefore, it is necessary to allocate means and efforts to completion of mechanization of all production processes.Originality. The efficiency of mechanization and automation of processes at a gasifier plant is expressed through the formula of automatic control. We have identified dependencies describing changes in the mechanization efficiency of all technological units of the gasifier plant and productivity growth due to reducing the number of manufacturing operations.Practical implications. Analytical research testifies that effective functioning of the gasifier plant is ensured by automation of all technological processes. Computer system conversion requires additional investments which exceed the costs of mechanization by 1.25 -1.4 times.

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Air pollution impacts from open air burning

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

Environmental diagnosis of landfills in Venezuela using EVIAVE methodology

Environmental diagnosis of landfills in Venezuela using EVIAVE methodology

Estimating the Generation of Garden Waste in England and the Differences between Rural and Urban Areas

Features of setting up a complex, combined and zero-waste gasifier plant

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