Sentences with phrase «in sulfur dioxide»

For example, in the sulfur dioxide market, sulfur permits have ranged in price from $ 50 a ton to over $ 1,000 a ton.

Reductions in sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in recent years, for cleaner air, mainly in South East Asia due to a severe manufacturing sector slowdown and pollution policy changes (1,2) may attribute to current warming, since the phenomena called global dimming is involved.

An increase in sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions would take a toll on human health.

«Evaluation of proton - conducting membranes for use in a sulfur dioxide depolarized electrolyzer.»

«We can use this to look at trends in sulfur dioxide emissions on the scale of an entire volcanic arc.»

In any case, our past record of increased energy use has been accompanied by a seventeen-fold increase in carbon emissions, a thirteen-fold increase in sulfur dioxide emissions, and an eightfold increase in lead emissions to the atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Air pollutants are the result of impurities in coal that, once burned, can become air - or water - borne hazards, including soot, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury, all of which are regulated in the U.S..

Not only can cruise ships generate the same amount of sulfur dioxide fumes as 13.1 million cars in a day, but they also dump boatloads of noxious bilge water into the ocean.

When sulfur dioxide gets into the atmosphere and meets nitrogen oxides, compounds are formed that lead to acid in the rain.

In the transition period the conditions for exporting organic wine to the US are the same laid down in the US organic regulation: «Organic», when no sulfur dioxide is added; «Made with organic grapes», if sulfur dioxide is added, with a maximum level present in the finished product of 100 parts per millioIn the transition period the conditions for exporting organic wine to the US are the same laid down in the US organic regulation: «Organic», when no sulfur dioxide is added; «Made with organic grapes», if sulfur dioxide is added, with a maximum level present in the finished product of 100 parts per millioin the US organic regulation: «Organic», when no sulfur dioxide is added; «Made with organic grapes», if sulfur dioxide is added, with a maximum level present in the finished product of 100 parts per millioin the finished product of 100 parts per million.

A pound of dioxin from chlorine bleaching in a pulp mill is far more dangerous than a pound of sulfur dioxide from a coal - burning power plant that runs a washing machine.

Both released harmful emissions of nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide into the air in violation of air emission standards.

He was concerned about a smelter's putting out sulfur dioxide that was causing respiratory irritation in children, and so, along with the city attorney, he started a court case against the smelting company, Asarco.

Additional moisture near coal - burning power plants accelerates the conversion of sulfur dioxide fumes into sulfuric acid, increasing acid rain in the area.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

Plus, the original gas skid needed to be replaced because it could not handle the sulfur dioxide contained in the biogas.

«Quantifying the sulfur dioxide bull's - eyes is a two - step process that would not have been possible without two innovations in working with the satellite data,» said co-author Nickolay Krotkov, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

South of East St. Louis, the industrial plants in Sauget release hundreds of tons of volatile organic matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides each year.

«When you look at a satellite picture of sulfur dioxide, you end up with it appearing as hotspots — bull's - eyes, in effect — which makes the estimates of emissions easier.»

The sulfur - infused powder performed best, absorbing 82 percent of its weight in carbon dioxide.

Thriving in environments that lacked oxygen, they relied on compounds such as carbon dioxide, sulfur - containing molecules or iron minerals that act as oxidizing agents to break down food.

The Dynegy Midwest Generation plant, a coal - burning power plant, had nearly 10,000 tons of sulfur dioxide emissions in 2010.

And all of that production means that China is bearing the burden of the pollution that can go along with the manufacture of such renewable energy for other countries — whether the acid rain — forming sulfur dioxide emitted from making the steel in a wind turbine's blade or the noxious chemicals left over after manufacturing specialized silicon, or glass, that can turn sunshine into electricity.

First was an improvement in the computer processing that transforms raw satellite observations from the Dutch - Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA's Aura spacecraft into precise estimates of sulfur dioxide concentrations.

Like most fully committed terroirists, Brandt uses no plastics, commercial yeasts, or bacteria, and no nutritional additives — although in a pinch he does use sulfur dioxide to control fermentation and bacteria.

This device can also subject test devices to lethal gases like hydrogen fluoride, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen chloride, all of which exist in Venus» atmosphere and to which future probes will be exposed.

The average drop in global temperatures after Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top in 1991, spewing 20 million tons of sun - blocking sulfur dioxide.

Such technology could cut acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide emissions by more than 90 percent, smog - forming nitrogen oxides by 75 percent, and — ultimately — capture more than 80 percent of the CO2 normally produced by combustion, storing it in nearby depleted oil fields by 2015.

As is common around the country, New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation routinely monitors the levels of ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates in the air.

Boynton says there are quite a few minerals which, if present in the Martian dirt, would release water, carbon dioxide and possibly sulfur dioxide.

Environmental groups immediately pointed a finger at oil companies in the region, claiming that sulfur dioxide discharges were corroding the animals» lungs.

In the current work, the team filled the chamber with sulfur dioxide and pinnanediol (an oxidation product of alpha - pinene) and then generated hydroxyl radicals (the dominant oxidant in Earth's atmosphereIn the current work, the team filled the chamber with sulfur dioxide and pinnanediol (an oxidation product of alpha - pinene) and then generated hydroxyl radicals (the dominant oxidant in Earth's atmospherein Earth's atmosphere).

RGGI builds on the market known as the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, which covers CO2 emissions from the E.U., as well as from the ongoing sulfur dioxide emissions market in the U.S..

In addition to millions of tons of ash, the force of the eruption threw 55 million tons of sulfur - dioxide gas more than twenty miles into the air, into the stratosphere.

With many sources of pollution in some parts of the world, however, air pollution also can contain a mix of hazardous gaseous molecules, such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide and other volatile organic compounds.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

There, the sulfur dioxide rapidly combined with readily available hydroxide gas — which, in liquid form, is commonly known as hydrogen peroxide — to form more than 100 million tons of sulfuric acid.

In addition to ash, the eruptive cloud consisted primarily of vast quantities of sulfur dioxide (SO2), hydrogen chloride (HCl), and hydrogen fluoride gases (HF).

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

Interestingly, he consulted the literature in a rather unexpected subject while conducting these calculations: winemaking — a science that involves, in part, dissolving sulfur dioxide in water to produce sulfites and bisulfites under oxygenless conditions similar to those on early Earth.

Ultimately, he found that, while volcanic eruptions would have spewed huge quantities of both sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere, it was the former that dissolved more easily in shallow waters, producing large concentrations of sulfidic anions, in the form of sulfites and bisulfites.

Beijing's air is full of pollutants like sulfur dioxide (SO2), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and notably, particulate matter (microscopic particles like those in engine exhaust).

They calculate that, around 3.9 billion years ago, erupting volcanoes emitted huge quantities of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, which eventually settled and dissolved in water as sulfidic anions — specifically, sulfites and bisulfites.

Similar scandals erupted over the effects of scores of industrial applications, ranging from sulfur dioxide and acid rain, to certain aerosols and the hole in the ozone layer, to leaded gas and cognitive impairment, to the granddaddy of them all, fossil fuels and global climate change.

Meanwhile, China obtains roughly three - quarters of its electricity from coal, meaning the air in Beijing and other cities is thick with sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen dioxide spewed from power plants and coal - burning stoves.

Using spectral readings from telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Hand has found high levels of oxidative chemicals such as sulfate, oxygen, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on Europa's surface, which are produced as ionizing radiation from Jupiter scours it, splitting apart water molecules and sulfur compounds in the uppermost layers of its ice.

They have been declining steadily ever since 1978 — which is just what you'd expect if the sulfur dioxide came from an eruption in that year.

According to a World Bank report on environmental conditions in 21st - century China, a resident of Beijing is subjected to about seven times more particulates than a resident of Los Angeles and about eight times as much sulfur dioxide.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the process of manufacturing glass not only contributes its share of greenhouse gas emissions but also generates nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and tiny particulates that can damage lung tissue when breathed in.

Free oxygen is not bound to another element, as are the oxygen atoms in other atmospheric gases like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.