Analysis of the air quality effects of power plant emissions

化石燃料的燃烧增加了温室气体（GHG）排放，并导致空气质量（AQ）下降。 由于其高可见性，化石燃料发电厂特别与这个问题相关。 公众对政府的压力越来越大，要求政府取消这些发电厂，以尽量减少温室气体排放和改善空气质量，但这必须以保持充足和廉价的能源供应的方式进行。 探索这些不同需求的解决方案通常是在模型的帮助下完成的，模型允许测试许多可能的方法，并选择最好的方法，而不会产生（通常是巨大的）实施费用。 在市场经济中，工业部门有责任找到不仅成功而且具有成本效益的方法来满足政府的规章。 学术研究人员在这一努力中的作用是提供新的和有效的方法，供私营部门伙伴用来实现这些目标。

The combustion of fossil fuels increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and causes reduced air quality (AQ). Due to their high visibility, fossil fuelled power plants are particularly associated with this problem. There is increasing public pressure for governments to eliminate these power plants as a means to minimise GHG emissions and improve AQ, but this must be done in a way that maintains an adequate and inexpensive energy supply. Exploring solutions to these divergent requirements is usually done with the help of models, which allow many possible approaches to be tested and the best one selected without incurring the (usually large) expense of implementation. In a market economy, it is the responsibility of the industrial sector to find methods to satisfy government regulations in ways that are not only successful but also cost effective. The role of the academic researcher in this effort is to provide novel and effective methods that can be used by the private sector partners to attain these goals.