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Air Quality and Climate Impact Assessment

Although most abatement of air borne pollutants is becoming ever better, developments will still have an impact on Air Quality and Climate, they will change the concentrations of certain elements within the air, that will affect people, plants, animals and buildings.

There are obvious developments that are associated with air quality impacts these might include coal fired power plants, oil refineries, waste incinerators (EfW). There is often air quality impacts associated with the construction phase of most projects, traffic dust and smoke from poorly maintained plant can be a problem. There are direct and indirect emissions to be considered, and factory that make plastic milk bottles for example might have direct emissions (impacts) from the heating of plastics etc, and indirect emissions from the power station where is sources the energy to heat the plastics.

Steam is a visually polluting emission that many find of concern, when in most cases steam contains little more than water vapour.

An air quality impact assessment may contain:

- Baseline Studies

- Impact Prediction

- Mitigation

- Monitoring

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