Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

The satellite carries the Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols. ©ESA/ATG We are conducting a detailed scientific analysis which will soon provide more insights and quantified results in the following weeks and months.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2019

To do so, we employ integrated assessment models (IAMs), which combine insights from multiple scientific disciplines to tabulate source-specific damages for 5 such pollutants that contribute to ambient levels of PM2.5. We do not include damages from morbidity or other pollutants such as exposure to nitrogen oxides (NO x ) or ozone.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Bromine also can remove ozone from the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere. Despite ozone’s beneficial role blocking harmful radiation in the stratosphere, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. Bromine then reacts with a gaseous form of mercury, turning it into a pollutant that falls to Earth’s surface.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Ozonolysis—the cleavage of carbon-carbon double bonds through reaction with ozone—is a reaction that plays a key role in a number of fields, including synthetic chemistry and tropospheric removal of unsaturated hydrocarbons. —Professor Dudley Shallcross, Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry at The University of Bristol.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Dr. Blake has carried out measurements of atmospheric volatile organic compounds that have provided critical insights into their roles in air pollution and climate change. Donald Blake, professor of chemistry, University of California Irvine. The selection committee is comprised of past award winners.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Transportation is one of the largest contributors to urban air pollution for pollutants such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, benzene, ozone, and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ). As such, cities are a focal point for understanding and addressing environmental health issues. is attributable to motor vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

And hydroxyls drive long chains of reactions involving other common gases, including ozone. That’s noteworthy because nitrogen oxides have primarily been associated with ozone formation and warming in the past. In the chemical soup of the lower atmosphere, however, sulfur dioxide isn’t the only substance interacting with hydroxyl.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2013

The new measurements will provide further insight into hydrocarbon combustion and atmospheric chemistry. For unsaturated hydrocarbons—molecules with at least one C=C double bond—a prominent removal mechanism is reaction with ozone, called ozonolysis. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 31, 2016

High-performance computing offers critical new insight into these phenomena, which in turn will accelerate the product’s entry into the market. Advancing to 10 Ah battery prototypes, Sepion faces challenges in membrane manufacturing related to polymer processing and the molecular basis for membrane performance and durability.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The finding provides insight into how to make better catalytic converters. Recently, researchers have produced a new zeolite that is surprisingly stable and makes very little nitrous oxide from nitric oxide, a chemical that depletes ozone. This intermediate is very similar to those found in nitrite reductase enzyme systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

60% of ground-level ozone (O 3 ) precursors, 6% of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), and 22% of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted. In general, methods presented here can provide insight into any spatially or temporally inhomogeneous environmental impact categories, such as water quality and availability, soil properties, or wildlife habitats.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

As economists and social scientists, we draw two fundamental insights from these examples of forced experimentation. One example where this strategy has been successfully employed is the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer. Such a plan can disarm opposition before it arises.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The use of petroleum-derived fuels is an important source of reactive gas-phase organic carbon that provides key precursors to the formation of secondary OA (SOA) and tropospheric ozone. We provide the ability to predict emissions of SOA precursors and SOA formation that is consistent with fuel use data and ambient measurements.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2009

Isoprene, a five-carbon diene formed naturally in plants and animals and a precursor of ozone, contributes more than 40% of these emissions. Wennberg and colleagues also used oxygen isotopes to gain insight into the chemical mechanism yielding epoxides. Isoprene is emitted by many deciduous trees, with oaks playing the biggest role.

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