Vehicle Emissions

The volume of vehicles on the roads is increasing, there is also the amount of pollution from the car. There are four types of air pollution by the Environmental Protection Agency, and each of them are in the emissions of vehicles.

Before we identify four types of pollution of air, let the item on the causes of this pollution. The cars and trucks, not all burn, the fuel into the combustion chamber. In fact, most cars will not burn about 85% of fuel and ages, that the vehicle is less fuel burned. This fuel burned, it is not responsible for a large part of the problems of air pollution today.

The first type of air pollution, the carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is dangerous because it reduces the amount of oxygen can be delivered in our body organs and tissues, what can the life in danger. A slight poisoning of the toxic gas is in headaches and dizziness. After 1999, the EPA study, road vehicles are responsible for 51% of carbon monoxide pollution. Of these 51%, the cars and trucks Transporter 87%.

The second type of air pollution is hydrocarbons. The EPA believes that the average American driving 12500 miles per year produced 10727 kg of oil. The damage to the lungs and other respiratory problems caused by oil. Road vehicles are 29% of pollution by oil with cars and truck transporter responsible for 88% of pollution.

In high-temperature fuel cells generate one third of air Chad substances, nitrogen oxides.

Thirty-four percent of the pollutants of nitrogen oxides are products of motor vehicles with cars and truck transporter responsible for 52%, and those responsible for diesel vehicles 42%.

The combination of light from the sun, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides results in the phenomenon of smog. The smog is in cities all over the world. For a time, hot, humid and sunny summers increase in smog. As you remember May, there was a serious problem, smog in Los Angeles in the 80s. The state of California had mandated that oil companies sell a cleaner fuel to help reduce smog.

Question of the particles is the last type of pollution of air. Haze is the result of this pollution by particles of solids and liquids in the air. The majority of particulate pollution from industrial plants. The vehicles are only 10% of the pollution of air, but only 10%, diesel vehicles produce 72%.

The vehicles are the main cause of air pollution in urban areas. In addition to vehicles meet our streets, more than meets the air pollution. All measures must be taken to the types of air pollution to the health of our planet.

July 30 2007 05:32 am | Environmental Pollution

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