Air Pollution from Cement Plants: Case Study on Particulate Matter in Bihar, India

Abstract

Environmental pollution and its impact is a major challenge for this age of industrialization and urbanization. It is becoming difficult to breathe fresh air in the cities and industrial areas. Both indoor and outdoor air quality is becoming worse day by day. A study has been conducted to find out the level of particulate matter concentration inside a village near to a cement plant located in Bihar, India to know the impact of the cement plant on the ambient environment. The present study clearly indicates that during night time particulate matter concentrations of the village environment were high compared to the day times. It is also observed that there is a high concentration of particulate matter in the ambient air compared to WHO air quality guideline values in both the cases(day times and night times) due to emission from the nearby cement plant. Hence this study suggests that the cement plants and other similar industries should take proper actions to maintain the air quality standard in the ambient areas.In the last part of the article some of the pollution control techniqueshas been discussed in brief which would be helpful to the industries to improve their environmental sustainability targets.

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Madhab Chandra Jena

Madhab Chandra Jena born in Ishanpur, Jajpur, Odisha in 1980. He is the founder of Om Krishna Arts and Science Research Association. He is M-Tech in Production Engineering from BPUT, Odisha and pursuing PhD in same university. He has a good contribution in the field of technological research and literature. He is the author of two books in Odia namely “Aloka” and “Bigyan Quiz” .His poetry and short stories have been published in magazines time to time i.e., in “Muse India”, “The challenge”, “Indian Review”, “Ame Odia”, “Aaina” etc. His research papers are published in Wiley, Springer etc.

Sarat Kumar Mishra: He is currently working as principal of Aryan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, His research papers are published in many national and international journals.

Himanshu Sekhar Moharana: He is orking as Dean Research and coordinating R & D Programmes with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, New Delhi. The Institute has got special recognition as Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) from Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. Coordinating R & D activities at Gandhi Institute for Technology, Bhubaneswar across all departments.