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Air quality assessment in the surroundings of aluminium smelters. Effect of emissions on air quality in the past (1992 – now).

Hak, Claudia

Publication details

Series: NILU rapport 24/2022

Publisher: NILU

Year: 2022

ISBN: 978-82-425-3103-2

Arkiv: hdl.handle.net/11250/3038160

Summary:
On behalf of Aluminiumindustriens Miljøsekretariat (AMS), NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research reviewed existing data on ambient air quality around aluminium smelters from the period 1992 – 2020. Changes in production technologies and treatment technologies have been implemented in this time period. Emissions to air and ambient concentrations of most compounds typically measured (PAHs, fluorides, sulphur dioxide, particulate matter, heavy metals) have decreased since the beginning of the 1990s as a result of improvement of the production technology.