• Question: Do you try to prevent acid rain ?

    Asked by giulia28 to Cathy, Mark, Roma, Rory on 26 Jun 2014.
    • Photo: Rory Hadden

      Rory Hadden answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      Not directly. But my work involves thinking how to make fire safety more efficient and use less materials. That mean less CO2 emissions and a reduction in acid rain.

      Also by reducing the number of fires, we hope to make buildings last longer so they don’t need to be rebuilt. This again saves on the pollution created making the construction materials and the emissions released during building.

      So while it is not the main objective, it is still important. I suspect the others will be able to give a better answer!

      Rory

    • Photo: Cathy Fraser

      Cathy Fraser answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      It’s not something that my area of engineering really touches upon, although I do work with many Power Stations and I know they are taking massive steps to reduce their emissions – not just CO2, which will help to reduce acid rain.

    • Photo: Roma Agrawal

      Roma Agrawal answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      Not in my area of work- but we are always trying to make buildings more sustainable and eco-friendly 🙂

    • Photo: Mark Greaves

      Mark Greaves answered on 27 Jun 2014:

      Hello,

      In the water industry we are very mindful of reducing emissions that can cause acid rain.
      For instance our sludge treatment plant in Manchester has a NOx limit on the exhaust stacks of the engines and boilers. We are consented on the amount of NOx we can release by the Environment Agency. We already use one type of gas clean-up technology to remove siloxanes from bio-gas and the latest engine technology (exhaust gas recirculation to name one) to try and reduce emissions but in the future we are going to look at NOx removal technologies so we can reduce the envirnomental impact as well as generate more green electricity within our consented limits.

      Mark

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