Contribution of burning of agricultural wastes to photochemical air pollution

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1966 · J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/00022470.1966.10468533· OSTI ID:6554771

Darley, E F; Burleson, F R; Mateer, E H; Middleton, J T; Osterli, V P

Agricultural wastes from orchards, grain fields, and range lands are burned each year in California as the most practical means of ridding the land of these wastes. In order to determine the relative contribution of the burning of such material to photochemical air pollution, the effluent from 123 fires of known weights of range brush, both dry and green, were monitored in a special tower which provided an open burning situation. Analyses were made for total hydrocarbon, expressed as C, by flame ionization detection, and for 24 individual hydrocarbons by gas chromatography, as well as for CO and CO/sub 2/ by infrared spectroscopy. A few analyses were made for oxides of nitrogen. These data, coupled with temperature and airflow measurements, allowed calculations to be made on pounds of effluent per ton of material burned and demonstrated that the emissions from agricultural burning are much less than those from the automobile, a principal source of such emissions.

• Research Organization: Univ. of California, Riverside
• OSTI ID: 6554771
• Journal Information: J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States), Journal Name: J. Air Pollut. Control Assoc.; (United States) Vol. 16; ISSN JPCAA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AGRICULTURAL WASTES
AIR POLLUTION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMBUSTION PRODUCTS
ORGANIC WASTES
OXIDATION
PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDANTS
POLLUTION
SMOG
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
WASTES