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Emission Inventory of evaporative emissions of VOCs in Four metro cities In India.

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Title Emission Inventory of evaporative emissions of VOCs in Four metro cities In India.
 
Creator Srivastava, Anjali
Majumdar, Dipanjali
 
Subject Air Pollution
 
Description High concentrations of volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) in ambient air of urban areas
stress the need for the control of VOC emissions
due to the toxic and carcinogenic nature of
many VOCs commonly encountered in urban air.
Emission inventories are an essential tool in the
management of local air quality, which provide a
listing of sources of air pollutant emissions within
a specific area over a specified period of time.
This study intended to provide a level IV emission
inventory as par the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (USEPA) definition for evaporative
VOC emissions in the metro cities of India
namely Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.
The vehicular evaporative emissions are found
to be the largest contributor to the total evaporative
emissions of hydrocarbons followed by
evaporative losses related to petrol loading and
unloading activities. Besides vehicle-related activities,
other major sources contributing to evaporative
emissions of hydrocarbons are surface
coating, dry cleaning, graphical art applications,
A. Srivastava (B) · D. (née Som) Majumdar
National Environmental Engineering Research
Institute, Kolkata Zonal Centre, i-8, Sector C,
East Kolkata Area Development Project,
P.O East Kolkata Township, Kolkata 700107, India
e-mail: a_srivastava@neeri.res.in, anjali54@gmail.com
printing (newspaper and computer), and the use
of consumer products. Various specific preventive
measures are also recommended for reducing the
emissions.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/665/1/emission%20inventory.pdf
Srivastava, Anjali and Majumdar, Dipanjali (2010) Emission Inventory of evaporative emissions of VOCs in Four metro cities In India. Environmental Monitoring and assessment, 160 (1-4). pp. 315-322. ISSN 0167-6369, ESSN: 1573-2959
 
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