Ebook: Traffic and Environment: Traffic and Environment
Author: Dušan Gruden (auth.)
- Tags: Environmental Management, Automotive Engineering, Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution, Environmental Health, Noise Control
- Series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 3T
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The automobile is one of the inventions which has made a decisive contribution to human mobility and it has become an inseparable part of modern human society. It is through this widespread use that negative impacts on the environment have become clearly visible. Therefore, since the late sixties and early seventies, automotive development has been accompanied by an ever increasing number of severe legal standards e.g. about the reduction of exhaust gas pollutants, noise emissions, hazardous substances and waste, as well as about improved recyclability of materials and other aspects.
Achievements in improving the ecological characteristics of the automobile are highly impressive: A modern car emits only fractions of the amounts of noise and exhaust gas pollutants produced by its predecessors 30 years ago. The same trend can be found with all the other ecologically relevant automotive features so that the absolute impact of the automobile on our environment is considerably lower today than in the past. The contributions to this book were written by experts most of whom have been actively involved in the development of modern automobiles and their combustion engines for more than 30 years. They have participated in all phases of the ecological development of the automobile. At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, these experts have summarized their experience and know-how in this book, which bears witness to the successful implementation of ecological considerations into automotive development work.
The automobile is one of the inventions which has made a decisive contribution to human mobility and it has become an inseparable part of modern human society. It is through this widespread use that negative impacts on the environment have become clearly visible. Therefore, since the late sixties and early seventies, automotive development has been accompanied by an ever increasing number of severe legal standards e.g. about the reduction of exhaust gas pollutants, noise emissions, hazardous substances and waste, as well as about improved recyclability of materials and other aspects.
Achievements in improving the ecological characteristics of the automobile are highly impressive: A modern car emits only fractions of the amounts of noise and exhaust gas pollutants produced by its predecessors 30 years ago. The same trend can be found with all the other ecologically relevant automotive features so that the absolute impact of the automobile on our environment is considerably lower today than in the past. The contributions to this book were written by experts most of whom have been actively involved in the development of modern automobiles and their combustion engines for more than 30 years. They have participated in all phases of the ecological development of the automobile. At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, these experts have summarized their experience and know-how in this book, which bears witness to the successful implementation of ecological considerations into automotive development work.
The automobile is one of the inventions which has made a decisive contribution to human mobility and it has become an inseparable part of modern human society. It is through this widespread use that negative impacts on the environment have become clearly visible. Therefore, since the late sixties and early seventies, automotive development has been accompanied by an ever increasing number of severe legal standards e.g. about the reduction of exhaust gas pollutants, noise emissions, hazardous substances and waste, as well as about improved recyclability of materials and other aspects.
Achievements in improving the ecological characteristics of the automobile are highly impressive: A modern car emits only fractions of the amounts of noise and exhaust gas pollutants produced by its predecessors 30 years ago. The same trend can be found with all the other ecologically relevant automotive features so that the absolute impact of the automobile on our environment is considerably lower today than in the past. The contributions to this book were written by experts most of whom have been actively involved in the development of modern automobiles and their combustion engines for more than 30 years. They have participated in all phases of the ecological development of the automobile. At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, these experts have summarized their experience and know-how in this book, which bears witness to the successful implementation of ecological considerations into automotive development work.
Content:
Introduction....Pages 1-13
The Diversity of Naturally Produced Organohalogens....Pages 1-15
The Global Cycles of the Naturally-Occurring Monohalomethanes....Pages 17-41
Power Units for Transportation....Pages 15-106
Means of Transportation and Their Effect on the Environment....Pages 107-173
The Biogeochemistry of Chlorine in Soil....Pages 43-62
Legislation for the Reduction of Exhaust Gas Emissions....Pages 175-253
Abiotic Formation of Organohalogens During Early Diagenetic Processes....Pages 63-84
Fuels....Pages 255-288
Marine Sources of Volatile Organohalogens....Pages 85-101
An Update on Organohalogen Metabolites Produced by Basidiomycetes....Pages 103-119
Volcanic Formation of Halogenated Organic Compounds....Pages 121-139
Fluorinated Natural Products: Occurrence and Biosynthesis....Pages 141-169
Enzymology and Molecular Genetics of Biological Halogenation....Pages 171-199
Myeloperoxidase and Eosinophil Peroxidase: Phagocyte Enzymes for Halogenation in Humans....Pages 201-214
Biotransformation, Toxicology and Pharmacogenomics of Dichloroacetate....Pages 215-234
The Natural Destruction of Organohalogen Compounds. Environmental Dehalogenation....Pages 235-264
Cryptophycin Synthesis....Pages 265-305
The automobile is one of the inventions which has made a decisive contribution to human mobility and it has become an inseparable part of modern human society. It is through this widespread use that negative impacts on the environment have become clearly visible. Therefore, since the late sixties and early seventies, automotive development has been accompanied by an ever increasing number of severe legal standards e.g. about the reduction of exhaust gas pollutants, noise emissions, hazardous substances and waste, as well as about improved recyclability of materials and other aspects.
Achievements in improving the ecological characteristics of the automobile are highly impressive: A modern car emits only fractions of the amounts of noise and exhaust gas pollutants produced by its predecessors 30 years ago. The same trend can be found with all the other ecologically relevant automotive features so that the absolute impact of the automobile on our environment is considerably lower today than in the past. The contributions to this book were written by experts most of whom have been actively involved in the development of modern automobiles and their combustion engines for more than 30 years. They have participated in all phases of the ecological development of the automobile. At the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, these experts have summarized their experience and know-how in this book, which bears witness to the successful implementation of ecological considerations into automotive development work.
Content:
Introduction....Pages 1-13
The Diversity of Naturally Produced Organohalogens....Pages 1-15
The Global Cycles of the Naturally-Occurring Monohalomethanes....Pages 17-41
Power Units for Transportation....Pages 15-106
Means of Transportation and Their Effect on the Environment....Pages 107-173
The Biogeochemistry of Chlorine in Soil....Pages 43-62
Legislation for the Reduction of Exhaust Gas Emissions....Pages 175-253
Abiotic Formation of Organohalogens During Early Diagenetic Processes....Pages 63-84
Fuels....Pages 255-288
Marine Sources of Volatile Organohalogens....Pages 85-101
An Update on Organohalogen Metabolites Produced by Basidiomycetes....Pages 103-119
Volcanic Formation of Halogenated Organic Compounds....Pages 121-139
Fluorinated Natural Products: Occurrence and Biosynthesis....Pages 141-169
Enzymology and Molecular Genetics of Biological Halogenation....Pages 171-199
Myeloperoxidase and Eosinophil Peroxidase: Phagocyte Enzymes for Halogenation in Humans....Pages 201-214
Biotransformation, Toxicology and Pharmacogenomics of Dichloroacetate....Pages 215-234
The Natural Destruction of Organohalogen Compounds. Environmental Dehalogenation....Pages 235-264
Cryptophycin Synthesis....Pages 265-305
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