Sentences with phrase «release sulfur dioxide»

The process of refining both metals can release sulfur dioxide (SO2), lead and zinc into the environment.

Acid rain can occur naturally after volcanic eruptions, forest fires and other events that release sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.

A classic case: burning fossil fuels releases sulfur dioxide gas into the air, which then turns into sulfuric acid aerosols.

Burning coal releases sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and other pollutants into the atmosphere.

Coal combustion releases sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which react with water and oxygen to form acid rain.

Not exact matches

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

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.

The ConocoPhillips Wood River refinery also released nearly 5,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, 4,000 tons of nitrogen oxides and 2,000 tons of volatile organic matter, according to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The hot flood basalts would have released huge amounts of sulfur and carbon dioxide, potentially causing a quick global chill followed by a longer period of global warming.

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

The main cause of acid rain is sulfur dioxide released by burning fossil fuels.

When sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released from power plants and other sources, prevailing winds blow these compounds across state and national borders, sometimes over hundreds of miles.

The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago.

The presence of ozone helps to explain the detection of hydroxyl (an unstable molecule of oxygen with a single atom of hydrogen) high in planet's atmosphere in 2008 (ESA news releases on ozone, sulfur dioxide, and hydroxyl; Lisa Grossman, New Scientist, October 6, 2011; and Montmessin et al, 2011).

The new study, published last week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, showed that emissions of sulfur dioxide, a common air pollutant released during coal and fossil fuel combustion, increased from 2000 to 2006, after which they started to decline.

Later that year, in October, Ronald Reagan commented on the eruption, suggesting that «one little mountain out there [Mt. St. Helens], in these last several months, has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind.»

Lignosulfonate is typically combusted on site, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere after sulfur has been captured for reuse.

It has also prevented more than 73 tons of carbon dioxide, 54 pounds of nitrogen oxide, 136 pounds of sulfur dioxide, and 700 milligrams of mercury from being released into the air.

Acid rain: Also called acid precipitation or acid deposition, acid rain is precipitation containing harmful amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids formed primarily by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned.

In mid-August, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to make recommendations to the White House on how to reduce releases of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plants.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

But it's also the by - product of fossil fuel combustion, and when a refinery or power plant reduces its greenhouse gas emissions (by becoming more energy - efficient, for example), it also releases fewer smog - forming chemicals like nitrogen oxides, less of the sulfur dioxide and soot that can irritate lungs and cause respiratory disease, and fewer toxic emissions linked to cancer and neurological disorders.

The administration is likely to argue that cutting CO2 emissions from power plants would also be helping to reduce the release of respiratory irritants sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.

When fossil fuels are burned they produce gasses (most significantly carbon dioxide, but others as well, including sulfur dioxide) which are released into, and pollute, the atmosphere.

In the mid-20th century, coal - burning power plants and other sources released huge amounts of sulfur dioxide, which then formed toxic sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere.

The idea gained momentum recently when over 1,000,000 tons of sulfur dioxide was released into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

Acid rain develops when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere combine with water and oxygen to form acidic pollutants such as sulfuric acid (EPA, 2012).

Second, there were several volcanic eruptions that released massive amounts of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere.

In freshwater systems, acidifying depositions occur following the release of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere, mainly from the combustion of fossil fuels, which then may fall in dry or wet form.

The API is based on an average of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and fine dust readings at 27 monitoring stations (ozone data is not released).

Also this week, the Sierra Club released new maps demonstrating that sulfur dioxide emissions from the Danskammer coal plant could cause violations of the EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standard across six counties and over Storm King State Park, Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park and Bear Mountain State Park.

Coal mining and power production release toxic heavy metals like mercury, respiratory irritants like sulfur dioxide and particulates, and large volumes of heat - trapping gases like carbon dioxide and methane.