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EMISSION CONTROL EQUIPMENT [2 records]

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Record 1 2017-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anti-pollution Measures
  • Exhaust Systems (Motor Vehicles)
CONT

Two thirds of respondents ... recognized that emission control devices play an important role in reducing the amount of pollution caused by motor vehicles. Another 56 per cent understood that the use of leaded gas reduces the ability of these devices to decrease pollution.

OBS

antipollution device: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mesures antipollution
  • Échappement (Véhicules automobiles)
OBS

Dispositif limitant les émissions d'oxyde de carbone.

OBS

antipollution (adj. inv.) : Se dit des moyens choisis et des actions entreprises pour éviter ou diminuer la pollution de l'air, de l'eau et du sol.

OBS

dispositif anti-pollution; épurateur d'échappement : termes tirés du Toyota Express.

OBS

dispositif antipollution : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medidas contra la contaminación
  • Sistemas de escape (Vehículos automotores)
CONT

Dispositivo de control de la contaminación del aire tal como un incinerador o absorbedor de carbón el cual reduce la contaminación en un expulsor de gas.

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Record 2 1994-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Environmental Economics
  • Air Pollution
DEF

Equipment to control air pollution by collecting the pollutants. These include gravity settling chambers, inertial separators, cyclonic separators, filters, electrical precipitators, scrubbers (spray towers, jet scrubbers, Venturi scrubbers, inertial scrubbers, mechanical scrubbers, and packed scrubbers). Control equipment used for gases, vapors, and odors includes combustion, absorption, and adsorption units. Incineration equipment with a single combustion chamber is generally used for the combustion processes. Absorption equipment includes spray chambers, mechanical contactors, bubble cap or sieve plate contactors, and packed towers. Adsorption equipment includes packed beds, and sometimes fluidized beds.

OBS

Compare with "pollution control emission".

OBS

The term "emission" is generally used in regard to discharges into the atmosphere, it could also be used but rarely for water effluent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Économie environnementale
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

Appareillage utilisé pou éviter, limiter, réduire ou éliminer les émissions de polluant, particulièrement les polluants atmosphériques.

Spanish

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