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Ambio

Title:		"Energy, industry and nitrogen: strategies for decreasing reactive nitrogen emissions"
Author(s):		Moomaw WR;
Address:		"Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA. wmoomaw@attbi.com"
Journal Title:		Ambio
Year:		2002
Volume:		31
Issue:		2
Page Number:		184 - 189
DOI:		10.1579/0044-7447-31.2.184
ISSN/ISBN:		0044-7447 (Print) 0044-7447 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Nitrogen oxides are released during atmospheric combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, and during the production of certain chemicals and products. They can react with natural or man-made volatile organic compounds to produce smog, or else can be further oxidized to produce particulate haze, or acid rain that can eutrophy land and water. The reactive nitrogen that begins in the energy sector thus cascades through the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and soils before being eventually partially denitrifed to the global warming and stratospheric ozone-depleting gas nitrous oxide or molecular nitrogen. This paper will suggest how an economic analysis of the nitrogen cycle can identify the most cost-effective places to intervene. Nitrogen oxides released during fossil-fuel combustion in vehicles, power plants and heating boilers can either be controlled by add-on emission control technology, or can be eliminated by many of the same technical options that lead to carbon dioxide reduction. These integrated strategies also address sustainability, economic development and national security issues. Similarly in industrial production, it is more effective to focus on redesigning industrial processes rather than on nitrogen oxide pollution elimination from the current system. This paper will suggest which strategies might be utilized to address multiple benefits rather than focusing on single pollutants"
Keywords:		*Acid Rain Biomass Cost-Benefit Analysis Energy-Generating Resources Environment Environmental Pollution/economics/*prevention & control *Eutrophication Facility Design and Construction Fossil Fuels Incineration Industry Nitrogen/*analysis Nitrogen Oxides;
Notes:		"MedlineMoomaw, William R eng Review Sweden 2002/06/25 Ambio. 2002 Mar; 31(2):184-9. doi: 10.1579/0044-7447-31.2.184"