The Coronavirus, Immissions and the Combustion Engine
The effect traffic reduction, engine improvements, and weather conditions have on air pollution
2021/01/21
- Summary
- EMISSION REDUCTION NOT UNIFORM
- HUMANS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PARTICULATES AND NOx / MEASURING STATIONS ARE HEAVILY DEPENDENT ON THE WEATHER
- NOx IS CONSTANTLY FALLING
- DRIVING BANS TO REMAIN IN PLACE / THE ARGUMENTS OF THE GERMAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY ARE NOT CONVINCING
- CHANGING THRESHOLDS
Summary
This report contains a Spotlight article from Springer's automotive technical magazine "ATZ" www.atz-magazine.com. and "MTZ" www.mtz-magazine.com. Springer is a German company affiliated with MarkLines.
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The Coronavirus, Immissions
and the Combustion Engine
The coronavirus pandemic is providing unique experimental data not only for researchers but also for politicians with responsibility for the environment and transport. The lockdown measures resulted in a sudden and dramatic fall in the volume of personal and freight transport and a halving of the traffic peaks. We could have been justified in thinking that levels of air pollution in the form of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter should also have fallen. But there is no clear evidence that this is the case for nitrogen oxides and particulates.
Material from: Frank Urbansky, Freelance Journalist and Author, The Coronavirus, Immissions and the Combustion Engine, IN THE SPOTLIGHT article from MTZ Worldwide [10/2020] [the websites of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, which are available at www.springerfachmedien-wiesbaden.de] reproduced with permission of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH.
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