A Canadian Federal Viewpoint on the Regulatory Process for Air Pollution Control

The following remarks are excerpted from an address presented by Mr. Rivers on October 7, 1980 to the 4th annual meeting of the Atlantic Canada Chapter of APCA's Northeast Atlantic International Section.     

The Air Pollution Control Contractorand SMACNA

Over the years JAPCA has directed its attention primarily to the scientist and engineer in their roles as industrial air quality managers, consultants, control officials, educators, researchers, and manufacturers of emission control equipment and air pollution instrumentation. Largely overlooked has been the air pollution control contractor who evolved from the sheet metal industry to become a key figure in the environmental marketplace. Let's look "beyond the flange", as it were, at this contractor, his work, his association, and the professional development opportunities being offered to him.     

The Everchanging Air Pollution Control Market

While the United States is the largest single market for air pollution control equipment, it constitutes only about one-third of the total world market. This overview explores the legislative, economic, and technological factors that affect those markets.     

Federal Air Pollution Prevention and Abatement Responsibilities and Operations

The direct federal role in air pollution control was expanded and intensified by the 89th Congress to include authority for: (1) abatement of international pollution; (2) promulgation and enforcement of regulations regarding emissions from new motor vehicles and engines; and (8) the conduct cf conferences and formulation of advisory recommendations concerning potential air pollution of substantial significance. Experiences under interstate abatement authorities of the Clean Air Act and plans for future activities under the new authorities are discussed.     

Current Trends in Federal Interagency Relations Concerning Air Pollution

Under the first Federal Air Pollution Act of 1955, which assigned the responsibility for developing a national program to the Public Health Service, a significant phase of the program involved other federal agencies through a series of contractual relationships. These interdepartmental relationships were limited however, to the objective of capitalizing on the diverse research facilities and specialized competencies within the federal establishment, as a means of accelerating the research and technical assistance program authorized under the act. With the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1963, a major new emphasis has been added to the federal air pollution control program—application of technical knowledge, through broadly accelerated control programs. This emphasis is reflected in current trends in the nature and type of the Public Health Service’s developing relationships with other federal agencies. The emerging PHS programs to prevent and control air pollution from federal facilities, the PHS role in preventing pollution arising from transportation systems aided under the new Urban Mass Transportation Act, and other developing interagency relationships and problem areas are discussed in this context.     

Air Pollution Control Philosophies

Most air pollution control programs rest on one or more of the following four basic philosophies: emission standards, air quality standards, emission taxes, and cost benefit analysis. Frequently they rest on mixtures or combinations of these four. This paper examines each of the four separately, tries to show why each is different from the others, and compares their advantages and disadvantages.     

Air Monitoring Reflects Air Pollution Control Activity

Air monitoring by the A.I.S.I. filter sampling device which both preceded and was concurrent with source control of particulates demonstrated air quality improvement over a ten-year period. A difference in improvement from that estimated by the pollution control agency resulted from difference in the measurement parameters.     

State and Community Reactions to the Federal Air Pollution Program

The Federal Air Pollution Program is growing rapidly. Its activities are affecting state and local programs both directly and indirectly. Some of these activities are discussed and suggestions are made for developing closer cooperation in the areas of program grants, motor vehicle emission control, Federal abatement procedures, and technical assistance.     

Careers in Air Pollution Control

Abstract

The destruction of parts per million (ppm) levels of volatile organic compounds in a dry air stream by high–energy electron–beam irradiation has been investigated in a pilot plant at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee. In a series of experiments, dry air contaminated with various VOCs in the concentration range of 50–1000 ppm were treated in the UTSI pilot plant to determine the extent of destruction at various electronbeam dose levels.

The destruction removal efficiency was determined as a function of the electron beam irradiation dose. The results suggest a charge transfer reaction as the major decomposition mechanism. A theoretical foundation of the process, along with a simple first–generation reaction kinetics model, a summary of the results from the pilot plant flow reactor, and a preliminary cost analysis for a fullscale detoxification plant using currently available electronbeam gun technology are presented in this paper.     

Engineeringand MaintainingIn-Plant Air Pollution Control

Informative Report No. 7 on the inedible rendering industry is one of a series of survey reports prepared by APCA’ TI-2 Committee on air pollution problems and control methods encountered in the chemical industry today.     

室内空气污染与控制

论述了造成室内空气污染的主要原因，分析了室内空气污染的特点及其危害，并结合房屋建筑过程以及人们日常生活的各个方面，提出了预防及控制室内空气污染的具体方法。     

Designing for Air Pollution Control

This paper was one of several presented at the Workshop on Air Pollution Control in Portland, Oregon, on May 6, 1968. The Workshop was sponsored by the Manufacturing Chemists Association and the Chemical Industry Council of the Pacific Northwest in cooperation with the Association of Oregon Industries, Association of Washington Industries, and the Environmental Committee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. While many of the papers were of localized interest, this paper speaks to anyone designing air pollution control systems.     

The Role of the Computer in Air Pollution Control

The search for ways of reducing vehicular emissions has led to numerous investigations of the relationships between fuel composition and the pollutants discharged from automobiles. The most obvious fuel effects result from evaporation of gasoline components from the fuel tanks and carburetors of vehicles which lack effective mechanical devices (such as those required on all 1971 model cars) to control evaporative losses. Thus, several laboratories and cooperative study groups (Coordinating Research Council and American Petroleum Institute) have investigated the ways in which fuel properties (especially the amounts and types of C₄-C₅ hydrocarbons) influence both the amount and the potential atmospheric reactivity of evaporative emissions.^1–6 But fuel evaporation accounts for only a small portion of the total hydrocarbons emitted by automobiles, and gasoline modifications (such as volatility reductions) that reduce evaporative losses can lead to higher levels of hydrocarbons in automobile exhaust.^4–6