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Cheng L, Ye Z, Wei W, Wang K, Wang R, Yang L, Cheng S, Zhang C. Study on the establishment of air pollutant and carbon emission inventory and collaborative emission reduction potential of China's coking industry from 2012 to 2022. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 951:175183. [PMID: 39089387 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2024] [Revised: 07/14/2024] [Accepted: 07/29/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024]
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Coking industry is usually regarded as a high pollution and high energy consumption industry. China is accelerating its efforts to reduce pollution and carbon emissions in the industrial sector, which has received little attention as the world's largest producer of coke. Therefore, in this study, the trend of air pollution and carbon emissions in China's coking industry and the path of coordinated emission reduction were studied. The results indicate that the average annual emissions of PM, SO2, NOx, VOCs, and CO2 in China's coking industry from 2012 to 2022 amount to 205.98, 69.47, 193.45, 599.80 Gg and 191.10 Tg, respectively. The main sources of PM, SO2, NOx, VOCs and CO2 in coking industry were coal preparation (51.5 %), charge and pushing (39.5 %), coke oven gas (99.8 %), byproduct recovery (47.0 %) and fuel combustion (87.5 %). The emissions from coking plants in central and southern Shanxi, eastern and southern Hebei, and central Shandong are the most concentrated. Ultra-low emission transformation and deep treatment of VOCs have greatly reduced pollutant emissions in key areas of air pollutant control, but the actual emission reduction effect of these measures has been weakened by the additional emissions caused by the increase of coke production in other non-key areas. The research on synergetic emission reduction path shows that there is a great synergistic benefit between air pollutants and CO2 emission reduction in coking industry. It is estimated that the APeq (air pollutants and carbon equivalent) of China's coking industry in 2025, 2028 and 2030 will decrease by 38.2 %, 63.5 % and 70.8 % respectively compared with 2022. With the continuous promotion of pollution reduction and carbon reduction measures, the emission reduction potential of China's coking industry will gradually shift from key areas to non-key areas.
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Affiliation(s)
- Long Cheng
- School of Environmental Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China; State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies and National Local Joint Laboratory for Advanced Textile Processing and Clean Production, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China
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- School of Environmental Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China; State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies and National Local Joint Laboratory for Advanced Textile Processing and Clean Production, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China
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- College of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- Shandong Academy for Environmental Planning, Jinan 250101, China
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- Hainan Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Haikou 510100, China
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- School of Environmental Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China; State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies and National Local Joint Laboratory for Advanced Textile Processing and Clean Production, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China
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- College of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Appraisal Center for Environment and Engineering, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100012, China.
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Cheng L, Wei W, Cheng S, Zhang C, Ye Z, Wang K, Wang R. Reductions of multiple air pollutants from coking industry through technology improvements and their impacts on air quality and health risks in a highly industrialized region of China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 908:168360. [PMID: 37939954 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region, a highly industrialized area in China, boasts a concentration of coking plants that constitute a vital component of the steel industry. In recent years, the Chinese government has implemented measures including backward production capacity elimination (BPCE), ultra-low emission technology transformation (ULET), and deep treatment of volatile organic compounds (DTV), to promote technological progress in the coking industry and mitigate the impact of pollutant emissions. This study focuses on the emission trends, reduction effects of various measures, and the impact on air quality and human health in the regional scale. The findings reveal that in 2015, the emissions of PM, SO2, NOx and VOCs of the coking industry in BTH region were 29.15, 9.64, 26.62 and 82.99 Gg (1000 tons/year) respectively. However, by 2019, these emissions had significantly decreased by 19.95, 5.78, 18.69, and 22.53 Gg, respectively. Of these reductions, ULET contributed about 80.3 % of NOx and SO2, and 57.4 % of PM. Meanwhile, DTV and BPCE contributed 49.2 % and 50.7 % of VOCs emission reduction, respectively. Despite the improvement effect on PM2.5, SO2, and NO2 is limited, the substantial decrease in VOCs (particularly benzene) resulted in a significant reduction in the coking industry's contribution to the atmospheric benzene concentration, dropping from 15.9 % in 2015 to 11.6 % in 2019. Moreover, the lifetime cancer risk (LCR) contribution of benzene inhalation in the BTH region also decreased from 1.7 × 10-6 to 1.2 × 10-6. Looking ahead to 2025, the continued implementation of DTV will be expected to reduce VOCs emissions by 24.41Gg. This will bring the industry's contribution to the benzene concentration down to 6.8 % and the cancer risk of the population to an acceptable level (LCR < 1 × 10-6). Additionally, the deep treatment of VOCs in coking plants will significantly reduce the health risks faced by people living in the vicinity of the plants.
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- Long Cheng
- College of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- Appraisal Center for Environment and Engineering, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry (LAPC), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
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- College of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- College of Environmental & Energy Engineering, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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Zheng X, Chen F, Zhu Y, Zhang X, Li Z, Ji J, Wang G, Guan C. Laccase as a useful assistant for maize to accelerate the phenanthrene degradation in soil. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024; 31:4848-4863. [PMID: 38105330 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31515-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) pollution has attracted much attention due to their wide distribution in soil environment and serious harm to human health. In order to establish an efficient and eco-friendly technology for remediation of PAH-contaminated soil, phytoremediation utilizing maize assisted with enzyme remediation was explored in this study. The results showed that the participation of laccase could promote the degradation of phenanthrene (PHE) from soil and significantly reduce the accumulation of PHE in maize. The degradation efficiency of PHE in soil could reach 77.19% under laccase-assisted maize remediation treatment, while the accumulation of PHE in maize roots and leaves decreased by 41.23% and 74.63%, respectively, compared to that without laccase treatment, after 24 days of maize cultivation. Moreover, it was found that laccase addition shifted the soil microbial community structure and promoted the relative abundance of some PAH degrading bacteria, such as Pseudomonas and Sphingomonas. In addition, the activities of some enzymes that were involved in PAH degradation process and soil nutrient cycle increased with the treatment of laccase enzyme. Above all, the addition of laccase could not only improve the removal efficiency of PHE in soil, but also alter the soil environment and reduce the accumulation of PHE in maize. This study provided new perspective for exploring the efficiency of the laccase-assisted maize in the remediation of contaminated soil, evaluating the way for reducing the risk of secondary pollution of plants in the phytoremediation process.
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- Xiaoyan Zheng
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, 92 Weijin Road, Tianjin, 300072, China.
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Guagliardi I. Editorial for the Special Issue "Potentially Toxic Elements Pollution in Urban and Suburban Environments". TOXICS 2022; 10:775. [PMID: 36548608 PMCID: PMC9785523 DOI: 10.3390/toxics10120775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Pollution by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is becoming a serious and widespread issue in all environmental matrices because of accelerated population growth rate, rapid industrialization and urbanization, and other changes which have occurred in most parts of the world in the last few decades [...].
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- Ilaria Guagliardi
- National Research Council of Italy-Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), Via Cavour 4/6, 87036 Rende, Italy
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