Monitoring of air pollutants and green house gases
- Assam Girl`s Polytechnic Institute (India)
The study of chemical reactions in the atmosphere poses a serious problem due to the very low concentrations involved, which makes the detection and analysis of reaction products extremely difficult. High altitude reactions at very low pressure cannot be simulated in the laboratory. Chemicals in the atmosphere participate in photochemical reactions by absorption of solar radiation. Such reaction occurs even at the absence of chemical catalysts at much lower temperatures. These photochemical reactions play a key role in governing the ultimate fate of a chemical in the atmosphere. It should be noted that the atmosphere is a tremendously dynamic system with wide fluctuations of the parameters, viz composition, temperature, humidity and intensity of sunlight. Obviously, different processes will be observed under varying atmospheric conditions. Some typical chemical and photochemical reactions will be illustrated. In this context, it must be mentioned that while oxygen plays an important role in the troposphere, ozone plays an important as well as key role in the stratosphere.
- OSTI ID:
- 466212
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9606185-; TRN: 96:005931-0163
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 5. international conference on atmospheric sciences and applications to air quality, Seattle, WA (United States), 18-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of The 5th international atmospheric sciences and applications to air quality conference; PB: 322 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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