OBJECTIVE To provide effective environmental management for total amount control of atmospheric pollutants. METHODS An atmospheric diffusion model of sulfur dioxide on the surface of the earth was established and tested in Shantou of Guangdong Province on the basis of an overall assessment of regional natural environment, social economic state of development, pollution sources and atmospheric...

Despite the success of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Acid Rain Program in reducing national sulfur dioxide emissions from electricity generation in a timely and costsaving manner, expected improvements in the environment have not followed in a linear fashion. While ambient sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations and acid deposition have decreased across the US, the health and ecological ...

The aim of this work is to investigate the influence of NO/SO2 on the emissions of N2O from diesel engine. A direct-injection diesel engine (model NF-19SK YANMAR) one cylinder was employed to test the emission. This engine works on fourstroke cycle and was operated at 2200 rpm by 25, 50, and 75% engine load. The experiment by three level sulfur content of fuel by adding DBDS into MDO and experi...

[1] We identify dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) as the major reduced sulfur-containing gas emitted from bushfires in Australia’s Northern Territory. Like dimethyl sulfide (DMS), DMDS is oxidized in the atmosphere to sulfur dioxide (SO2) and methane sulfonic acid (MSA), which are intermediates in the formation of sulfuric acid (H2SO4). The mixing ratios of DMDS and DMS were the highest we have ever de...

Sulfonyl-derived functional groups populate a broad range of useful molecules and materials, and despite a variety of preparative methods being available, processes which introduce the most basic sulfonyl building block, sulfur dioxide, using catalytic methods, are rare. Described herein is a simple reaction system consisting of the sulfur dioxide surrogate DABSO, triethylamine, and a palladium...

A previously described porous organic polymer (NU-POP-1) was evaluated against four representative chemical threats: ammonia, cyanogen chloride, sulfur dioxide, and octane. Ammonia, cyanogen chloride, and sulfur dioxide are examples of toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) spanning the range from highly basic to strong-acid forming substances, while octane is used to assess physical adsorption capa...

This study investigates the requirements for modeling of acid sulfite pulping with regard to the recovery of cooking chemicals, especially SO2. Such a model has to predict the temporal change of SO2 distribution on solid, liquid and gaseous phase in the digester throughout the whole pulping process, dependent on the pulping parameters: total SO2, free SO2, liquor-towood ratio, temporal temperat...

Sulfur dioxide and other so-called sulfiting agents as additives in foods and drugs may cause severe allergic reactions in susceptible individuals, especially asthmatics. The most widely used chemical preservatives, they have become a subject of increasing concern since 1976. The issue was recently brought to national attention by a CBS "60 Minutes" report on sulfite sensitivity aired twice in ...

The populations residing near polluted sites are more prone to various types of diseases. The important causes of air pollution are the suspended particulate matter, respirable suspended particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. As limited information is available enumerating the effect of these pollutants on liver physiology of the population living near the polluted sites; in t...

To evaluate the burden of air pollution on years of life lost (YLL) in addition to mortality, we conducted a time series analysis based on the data on air pollution, meteorological conditions and 163,704 non-accidental deaths of Ningbo, China, 2009-2013. The mean concentrations of particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter <10 μm, particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter <2.5 μm, sulfur d...