Environmental pollution has been a matter of concern for many years. Air pollution is often not visible to the naked eye as the size of the pollutants is smaller than the human eye can detect. Air pollution is becoming a major health problem that affects millions of people worldwide. In support of this observation, the World Health Organization estimates that every year, 2.4 million people die because of the effects of air pollution on health.
Sources of Air Pollution
The common varieties of air pollution control equipment include scrubbers, dust collectors, thermal oxidizers, cyclones, blowers, mist collectors, catalytic converters and electrostatic precipitators. The scrubber is perhaps one of the most well-known devices. Its function is to remove or neutralize harmful substance in an exhaust stream before they leave a given system. Typically, a scrubber infuses a new chemical or mixture into the problematic fumes. In the case of a wet scrubber, vaporized water is infused into the polluted substance and, once the resulting mixture condensed, the pollutants remain in the water while the rest of the gas escapes. Other scrubbers involve powdered lime and other materials, which react with acid and other harmful chemicals in the fumes, converting them into workable, pollution-free components. By contrast, an electrostatic precipitator uses a high-voltage electric charge combined with attractive plates to collect harmful materials.
The Environment (Protection) Act was enacted in 1986 with the objective of providing for the protection and improvement of the environment. It empowers the Central Government to establish authorities [under section 3(3)] charged with the mandate of preventing environmental pollution in all its forms and to tackle specific environmental problems that are peculiar to different parts of the country. The Act was last amended in 1991.
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