Vacuum pipelines for anaesthetic pollution control.

Keeping anaesthetic pollution to minimum in theatre environment

Anaesthetic gases and vapours are a potential pollutant in veterinary practices, with a prolonged lifetime of up to 120 years in the atmosphere. They impact not only on ozone depletion and, consequently, on global warming, but also on the health of operating theatre staff. In 2014, 2 of the 30 human adverse events reported involving veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses in the UK were due t...

Disclosure Strategies for Pollution Control

Disclosure strategies, which involve public and/or private attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution, form the basis for what some have called the third wave in pollution control policy (after legal regulation – the first wave – and market-based instruments – the second wave). While these strategies have become common in natural resource settings (forest certification an...

A Reactivity Based Emission Inventory for the South Pars and Its Implication for Ozone Pollution Control

The South Pars zone in Iran encompasses the largest gas refineries and petrochemical complexes in the world. In the South Pars zone, elevated concentrations of reactive hydrocarbons co-emitted with nitrogen oxides from industrial facilities lead to substantial ozone production downwind. To understand the role of these emissions on the ozone formation and, to formulate appropriate control st...

Closed-Loop Control of Anaesthetic Effect

WCET Coverage for Pipelines

Hybrid measurement-based (MB) approaches for computing WCET estimates are gaining popularity due to difficulties modelling advanced microprocessor speed-up features. These approaches combine measured data of program segments by using static analysis techniques in order to reconstruct the longest path through the program. To this end, execution times of program segments are collected by first in...