Role of average speed in N₂O exhaust emissions as greenhouse gas in a huge urban zone (MVMZ): would we need a cold sun?
Role of average speed in N₂O exhaust emissions as greenhouse gas in a huge urban zone (MVMZ): would we need a cold sun?
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大城市地区 (MVMZ) 中平均速度在 N2O 废气排放(作为温室气体)中的作用:我们需要冷太阳吗?
DOI:
10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.12.011
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
8.7
通讯作者:
R. Gómez
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作者:
S. Castillo;I. Mac;I. Mejía;R. Camposeco;G. Bazan;M. Morán;R. Carrera;R. Gómez
Nowadays, the drastic pollution problems, some of them related with greenhouse gas emissions, have promoted important attempts to face and diminish the global warming effects on the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Zone (MVMZ) as well as on the huge urban zones around the world. To reduce the exhaust gas emissions, many efforts have been carried out to reformulate fuels and design new catalytic converters; however, it is well known that other variables such as socio-economic and transport structure factors also play an important role around this problem. The present study analyzes the roles played by several commonly-used three-way catalytic converters (TWC) and the average traffic speed in the emission of N2O as greenhouse gas. According to this study, by increasing the average traffic flow and avoiding constant decelerations (frequent stops) during common trips, remarkable environmental and economic benefits could be obtained due to the diminution of N2O and other contaminant emissions such as ammonia (NH3) and even CO2with the concomitant reduced fossil fuel consumption. The actions mentioned above could be highly viable to diminish, in general, the global warming effects and contamination problems.