Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing: A Workshop

Day 3: Technologies: Potential to Reduce Emissions

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Stationary Source Control and Demand-Side Management

• Terry Surles: Overview of potential emission reductions (PPT presentation, 3.7 MB)

Power Generation and Industrial Sources

• Jarad Daniels: Potential emission reductions from advanced power generation (PDF presentation, 0.7 MB)
• Yoshinobu Okabe: Preliminary estimation for contribution of nuclear power to reduce emission of air pollutants from electricity sector in Japan (PPT presentation, 0.2 MB)
• Hub Hubbard: Potential avoidable emissions from renewables
• Rui Afonso: NO_x controls for the power industry
• Mark Levine: Potential avoidable emissions from demand-side management
• Rufus Edwards and Kirk Smith: Carbon balances, global warming commitments, and health implications of avoidable emissions from residential energy use in China: Evidence from an emissions database (PDF presentation, 0.5 MB)

Mobile Source Control and Emission Control Case Studies

• Michael Scheible: Background: Overview of regulatory efforts
• Michael Walsh: Global trends in motor vehicle pollution control (PPT presentation, 9.2 MB)
• Tim Wallington: Vehicle contribution to climate change (PPT presentation, 2.7 MB)
• Matti Maricq: Particle emissions from motor vehicles: Current and future technologies (PPT presentation, 1.0 MB)
• Pat Takahashi: Energy future

Case Studies of Air Pollution Emission Controls

• Sudhir Singhal: Indian scenario on automotive emissions and fuel quality (PPT presentation, 1.3 MB), presented by A.P. Mitra
• Yasuhiro Daisho: Japan
• Axel Friedrich: Air pollution emission controls in Europe (PPT presentation, 1.0 MB)
• Maurice Kaya: Hawaii: Energy, the environment, and the economy
• Peter R. Smith: New York
• Michael Scheible: California emission control case study (PDF presentation, 1.1 MB)

Panel Discsussion

• Are technologies available and practicable for reduction of relevant global air pollution (especially BOCs, O₃, O₃ precursors including CH₄, CO, NO_x, and VOCs), and what are the "co-benefit" implications for CO₂?
  What information/research is needed to better address this issue?

Panel Discussion

• What are real-world expectations based on the case studies for different cities, states, and countries? Are there discrepancies with the conclusions of the preceding panel discussion?
  What information/research is needed to better address this issue?

Workshop Homepage * Background
Summaries: Overview, Gases, Aerosols, Tech., Health, Agri./Eco.
Abstracts: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 * Participants