TY - JOUR
AB - incentive for the industry to clean up the sulfur and nitog- ren pollutants. There must be other techological ideas extant on how to deal rationally with the acid rain problem. This conference International Conference on Acid Rain is being organized to bring such solutions into the open. Prevention - Technologies and Topics for Presentation Novel methods of desulfurization of flue gases Economic Solutions Materials, metallurgy, and corrosion of containment ves- Rhode Island, USA sels 21-23 May, 1985 Economics of the proposed systems New designs versus retrofits Present technologies for removing sulfur from the flue gases that introduce sulfur dioxides into the atmosphere Proposed legislative efforts are based on the addition of materials like limestone in the Input from environmental groups scrubbers or in fluidized combustion beds. The resulting sludge is then disposed of in landfills, so that the sulfur Velllte contaminant is eventually transferred to the water table. The Conference will be held at the University of Rhode The present methods of reducing sulfur dioxide emissions Island, Kingston, RI, USA. are obviously not a true solution because they only trans- fer the pollutant from air to groundwater. In addition, the costs of scrubbers, limestone, and disposal of the sludge 
TI - Conference announcements
JF - The Environmentalist
DO - 10.1007/BF02239878
DA - 2005-10-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/conference-announcements-38opZ09ujK
SP - 75
EP - 80
VL - 5
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -