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REPORT TO CONGRESS: ASSESSMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 2. TECHNICAL REPORT
Citation:
Burklin, C., M. Gundappa, AND D. Jones. REPORT TO CONGRESS: ASSESSMENT OF INTERNATIONAL AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL TECHNOLOGY VOLUME 2. TECHNICAL REPORT. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-96/142b (NTIS 97-131379), 1996.
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Description:
The report gives results of a study that identifies new and innovative air pollution prevention and/or control technologies, of selected industrialized countries, that are not currently used extensively in the U.S. The technologies may be entirely new to the U.S., or they may be technologies currently in limited use in the U.S. that achieve either a higher level of control than existing technologies or the same level of control more cost effectively. The study addressed technologies that prevent or control the emissions of the following pollutants from each of four sources of air pollution: (1) Urban emissions - ozone precursors to include nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), particulate matter (PM), and air toxics; (2) Motor vehicle emissions - NOx, carbon monoxide, and PM; (3) Toxic air emissions - any one of the 189 compounds on the list of hazardous air pollutants in the 1990 CAAA (Title III); and (4) Acid deposition - NOx, sulfur oxides, and, to a lesser extent, VOCs. The report describes the approach taken to identify potentially useful technologies, gives results of the technology search and evaluation, and describes the selected technologies.
