Pollutants

Basics

• This Page aims to Lay Out All the Chemical Pollutants (ie not Light Pollution , RF Signal Noise/Pollution etc
• This is to help mitigate them

List

Atmospheric Particulate Matter

• Atmospheric Particulate Matter

Conventional pollutants

• A USA System for Water Pollution
• Conventional Pollutant
• Mainly PH, Biochemical Oxygen Demand
• Total Suspended Solids

Environmental Persistent Pharmaceutical Pollutants

• Can be problematic with some Composting Toilet Systems

Elements

• Heavy Metals
• Lead
• Mercury
• Ozone (if ground level, and in significant amounts)
• Radioactive Elements -and compounds
• Zinc

Indirect

• On their own, they do not cause issues, but they can effect other systems:
• CFCs banned in most use cases, react with the ozone layer making ozone generation slower, leading to ozone depletion
• CO2 directly inert, leads to Climate Change in large volumes, over long periods of time
  • Same thing with other Greenhouse Gases (need to add This Concept to a page as well)

Methyl tert-butyl ether

• MTBE

Microganism

• Not too major, but water pollution with microorganism (parasites, ecoli...)
• Also medical / biological science waste

Microplastic

• Microplastic Pollution
• Not too major as far as we know (for now), can lead to more POPs

Nutrient Pollution

• Excessive fertilizer and runoff
• Can lead to (sometimes toxic) Algae Blooms and/or Red Tides

Nitrogen Oxides

• Nitrogen Oxides

Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins

• Bio-Accumulate

Radioactive Waste

• Some are in the elements section
• Some ores/ Tailings can be concentrated with reactive elements/compounds
• Equipment Exposed to Ionizing Radiation may become low level radioactive waste
• Various Radioactive Tracers
• Pharmecuticals used for Radiothearapy

Treatment Technologies

Gas Streams

Solid Particulates Matter

• Cyclonic Seperation coarse to fine (need specifics)
• Electrostatic Precipitation
• Filters
• Wet Scrubbers this also typically treats gaseous chemicals
• Nearly all can be captured this way then processed and disposed of/stored/used

Gaseous/Volitile Liquid Pollutants

• See Gas Scrubbers for more in depth information
• Adsorbtion (often in Activated Carbon )
• Catalytic Conversion
• Wet Scrubbing
• Membrane Diffusion Seperation
• Pressure Swing Adsorbtion

Liquid Streams

• Adsorbtion (often in Activated Carbon )
• Anerobic Digestion
• Evaporation Ponds
• Incineration (to a certain degree, kind of just moves problems around, but may convert them into easily managable gases/solids)
• Precipitation/Settling

Internal Links

• Diesel Exhaust Pollutants
• Household Hazardous Waste small scale generation of all this, OSE/Microfactory etc level is a similar grade of pollutant generation

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Pollutants
• The Wikipedia Page on Pollution
• The Wikipedia Page on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards -a usa air quality system
• A Video by the Youtube Channel Healtcare Triage on the economic impact of Pollution (health effects -> economic effects)