Emission Factor

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Emission Factor: - The relationship between the amount of pollution produced and the amount of raw material processed. For example, an emission factor for a blast furnace making iron would be the number of pounds of particulates per ton of raw materials.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

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Fog clearing on Houston's emissions thanks to White  -  Jul 21, 2008
Houston Chronicle,Somehow, Canada got a clue: One study at an oil refinery in Alberta found that, compared with emission factor estimates, DIAL detected 33 times more VOCs

Indian scientists seek clarity on nitrogen emissions  -  Jul 18, 2008
Down to Earth (subscription),The emission factor of a gas is the amount of that gas emitted per unit source per year. It helps accurately calculate the total emission of a particular

Is permafrost preparing a climatic blast?  -  Nov 23, 2007
RIA Novosti,The other Arctic methane emission factor has been attributed to the sea shelf and clusters of gas hydrates that are chemical compounds in which methane

High landfill gas collection efficiencies reported by SWANA  -  Nov 19, 2007
Waste Management World,...collection study or use a default assumption of 75 per cent landfill gas efficiency, according to the US epa's AP-42 emission factor assumption in 2002.

Calibrating Your Climate Change GPS – How to Navigate Alberta’s ...  -  24 Aug 2007
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription),Emission factor, which is a value that relates the rate or quantity of a specified gas release with an activity associated with the release of that

Good news – there's less gas!  -  Aug 9, 2007
ScienceAlert,This flux, along with the river’s nitrate loading, was used to calculate an indirect emission factor for the river, which was then compared with the IPCC

Coal: Facts and findings  -  Jul 26, 2007
The Daily Star,Although coal is cheaper than natural gas and oil but its CO2 emission factor is highest among fossil fuels when it is used as fuel especially in power




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