Question
Which listed activity or vehicle does not produce combustion-exhaust air pollutants during its normal on-road electric operation?
The correct answer is
Battery-electric vehicles
Battery-electric vehicles produce no combustion exhaust during electric operation. They can still generate tyre and brake particles, and electricity generation and manufacture may cause upstream emissions. Garbage burning, fireworks and smoky industrial releases directly emit combustion pollutants.
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Important Questions from Air and Noise Pollution
- A possible mechanism for photochemical smog inhibition is to add compounds like diethylhydroxylamine (DEHA) as it reacts with
- In the determination of sulphur dioxide by p-rosaniline method, the end product is
- A point source of sound produces a noise of 70 dB at a distance of 20 m from it. What will be the noise level at 80 m from it ?
- Emission inventories involved in urban air quality assessment include parameters on
i. $SO_2$, $NO_x$, particulate matter pollutants
ii. Industry, traffic, domestic sources
iii. Fuel type, gasoline, wood as energy carrier
Choose the correct answer from codes given below : - Priority air pollutants included in the air quality index for urban areas in India are :
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