Sentences with phrase «oxide emissions»

This suggests, he says, that nitrogen oxide emissions from transport and industry are increasing more rapidly than ammonia emissions from agriculture.

Those additional controls have reduced sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by 70 percent, while electricity generation has increased 40 percent.

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

It indicates that a vegetarian diet (with dairy and eggs), a 66 per cent reduction in livestock production consumption, and technologies to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from soils and methane from ruminants, had the potential to reduce direct supply chain emissions by 15 - 20 per cent.

Use of chemical additives or coating techniques to suppress nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen fertilizers.

He does not have further publications forthcoming about nitrous oxide emissions in western Canada except for one publication with Dan Pennock to be published in Biogeochemistry.

Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification, both of which are important steps in the nitrogen cycle in soil, were also increased in areas invaded by kudzu.According to the computer model, the most extreme case of widespread kudzu growing over nonurban and nonagricultural soil would result in a greater than 25 percent increase in nitric oxide emissions from soil.

Nitrogen oxide emissions decreased by 68 %, SO 2 emissions plunged 95 %, and CO 2 emissions dropped 24 % between 2001 and 2015.

The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, brings together dozens of studies from across the globe that analyzed how nitrous oxide emissions increased based on different rates of fertilizer application.

The impact of the solar project, which features SunPower solar panels, will include reductions in carbon dioxide emissions at 113,147 pounds per year, sulfur dioxide emissions at 479 pounds per year and nitrous oxide emissions at 189 pounds per year.

A higher bio-diesel portion generally leads to slightly elevated nitrogen oxide emissions with simultaneously clearly reduced particulate mass emissions, which can be explained with the higher oxygen portion in the fuel among other things.

For the past ten years the plant has been operating without the level of emissions controls to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions as stipulated in the Clean Air Act.

The process also eliminates sulfur oxide emissions by erasing the need for conventional sulfur recovery processes.»

Simply put, limiting sulphur oxides emissions from ships reduces air pollution and results in a cleaner environment.

One possible analytical method which might resolve this sampling problem would be the tunable diode laser, which integrates nitrous oxide emissions over a broad area.

For vegetable products, energy use often is the dominant contribution of carbon dioxide emissions, but nitrous oxide emissions related to nitrogen application and fabrication also may be significant.

It is an outdoor mountable unit which emits low nitrous oxide emissions which those who are environmentally conscious will appreciate.

Experiments are recommended for western Canada to confirm that deep banding of N fertilizer, as is commonly used by actual farms employing zero till, reduces nitrous oxide emissions compared to surface incorporation.

The lawsuit claims that Allegheny undertook many construction projects over the years to extend the operational lifespan of these plants without complying with federal standards that require implementation of best available control technology standards to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions when new sources of power are constructed.

Nitrous oxide emissions not only contribute severely to the greenhouse effect but also to the depletion of stratospheric ozone.

«Chinese farmers, who sometimes use 2 - 4 times as much fertilizer as American farmers, could reduce their nitrous oxide emissions substantially by cutting back even just a little off of their large application rates.»

«Enhanced nitrous oxide emissions found in field warming experiment in the Arctic.»

The team discovered that the human impact on biogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions far outweighed the human impact on the terrestrial uptake of carbon dioxide, meaning that humans have caused the terrestrial biosphere to further contribute to warming.

This is up to a fifth of the estimated marine nitrous oxide emissions worldwide and significantly exceeds similar upwelling areas in other tropical oceans,» says Arévalo - Martínez.

In this respect, the members of the BATFARM project have developed software (BATFARM) to select the best farm waste technologies and practices to be applied according to the characteristics of the farm in question; it will enable the loss in nutrients (N, P, K, Cu, Zn) of the farm to be reduced, and the ammonia, methane and nitrous oxide emissions produced by each of the various production phases (housing, waste storage, waste treatment and the applying of it to the soil) to be cut.

The same study estimates the sector's share of overall GHG emissions, using 100 - year GWPs to convert methane and nitrous oxide emissions into CO2 - equivalent figures, at 14.5 percent.

Nitr50us oxide emissions were compared amongst five different rates of urea fertilizer.

Nitric oxide emissions tend to be highest at lower soil water - filled pore space contents than nitrous oxide (i.e., more aerobic soil conditions favor NO emissions).

The net effect needs to be measuredin future studies, which include nitrous oxide emission measurements.Furthermore, some studies have indicated that adoption of zero tillage may lead to an increase in nitrogen fertilizer requirements.

Thus experiments are needed to measure nitrous oxide emissions even when data is available on N fertilizer efficiency for various N fertilizer sources and methods of placement.

A study this January showed that global industrial nitrogen oxide emissions declined from 2005 to 2014, even as farm emissions boomed.

A DEFRA report published earlier this year showed that by 2006, «Methane emissions, excluding those from natural sources, were 53 per cent below 1990 levels» and that «Nitrous oxide emissions fell by 40 per cent between 1990 and 2006.»

In 2014, the most recent data available when Connecticut filed an EPA petition over Brunner Island, the Pennsylvania power plant's nitrogen oxide emissions alone were nearly double those of Connecticut's entire electric power industry, and modeling showed it was a major contributor to Connecticut smog.

Nitrous oxide emissions occur naturally through many sources associated with the nitrogen cycle, which is the natural circulation of nitrogen among the atmosphere, plants, animals, and microorganisms that live in soil and water.

Where quantified, adding manure or inorganic fertilizer, planting legumes, or incorporating crop residues all resulted in nitrous oxide emissions offsetting 75 — 310 % of the sequestered CO2 (Robertson et al. 2000; Brown et al. 2004; Li et al. 2005).

For example, in the US, each time the Clean Air Act has been amended since 1972, fossil - fuel power companies and their associated think - tanks screamed bloody murder that sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emission reductions would essentially destroy the economy (all but ignoring the obvious health and environmental benefits that did come to fruition).

It also aims to stabilise the 2005 nitrous oxide emission level, increase the 2001 forest coverage rate by 20 %, and increase the carbon sink by 50 Mt over the 2005 level by 2010.

The perception hasn't been helped by the Volkswagen Audi Group's very public exposure for cheating on Nitrogen Oxide emissions, and that can translate into keen pricing when looking at recently - made Skodas.

In this framework, adding the alleged benefits of abated carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions increases the benefits in the agency's cost - benefit analyses.

Last January was a prime example of what can happen during such measurements: the test candidate, a 2016 diesel Renault Mégane, already displayed high nitric oxide emissions at Empa's test rig.

We did not find to date any published studies which compared the effects of type of tillage system and nitrogen fertilizer placement method on nitric oxide emissions.

Internal engine modifications now make it possible to minimize particulate and nitrogen oxide emissions with nearly no reduction in power.

In the 1970s, AOERP had concerns about the impact of sulphur oxide emissions and the resulting acid rain on lakes in the tar sands area in northeastern Alberta.

«Scientists uncover isotopic fingerprint of nitrous oxide emissions from Arctic tundra.»

Ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel has 99.7 percent less sulfur — and is now produced for all highway and non-road uses, allowing for dramatically reduced nitrogen oxide emissions in newer diesel engines.