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ABSTRACT
In recent years, China’s new coal chemical industry (NCCI) advanced quickly, which led to serious and widely concerned air pollution. Emission standard is an important means for the management of atmospheric pollutants from NCCI, and thus plays key roles not only in reducing pollutant emissions, preventing environmental risks and improving environmental quality, but also in promoting the optimization and adjustment of industrial structure as well as the industrial healthy development. Here we discuss the problems of emission standards applied in managing atmospheric pollutants from NCCI based on the project analysis of atmospheric pollutants. The analysis indicates that the atmospheric pollutants from this industry include mainly sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, non-methane total hydrocarbon, hydrogen cyanide, benzo (a) pyrene, benzene, and heavy metals. The existing standards, such as Integrated Emission Standard of Air Pollutants (GB 16297-1996), Emission Standard of Air Pollutants for Industrial Kiln and Furnaces (GB 13271-1996), and Emission Standard of Odor Pollutants (GB 14554-1993), are applicable to emissions management of traditional coal chemical industry but are not strict enough to meet current demands of environmental management. Therefore, the emission standard of atmospheric pollutants from NCCI should be developed quickly by deepening the research of NCCI’s emission characteristics.
Acknowledgement
This research was supported by the State Key Research Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFC0503603).
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