Aug 27 2009 01:35 PMChromatography & Spectroscopy
Cool Analysis of So Much Hot Air
Discovering unexpected compounds in the
stack emissions of a process plant requires a
degree of detective work, supported by the
best in infra-red spectrometers and the most
powerful of spectroscopic software.
The monitoring and control of industrial
emissions has been high on the
environmental agenda for almost 50 years,
since the first large-scale programmes to
measure sulphur dioxide and \'black smoke\'
were set up in 1961. Since then, air quality
in the UK has greatly improved ? to the
extent that the Hollywood-clich? ?peasouper?
smogs are now but a distant folk
memory.
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