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Mitigation of Air Pollution and Carbon Footprint by Energy Conservation Through CFLs: A Case Study

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Title Mitigation of Air Pollution and Carbon Footprint by Energy Conservation Through CFLs: A Case Study
 
Creator Wath, Sushant B
Majumdar, Deepanjan
 
Subject Environment General, Sustainable Development
Environmental Resources, Conservation
Environmental Pollution
 
Description Electricity consumption of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) is low, making them a useful tool for minimizing the rapidly increasing demand of electrical energy in India. The present study aims to project the likely electricity conservation in a scenario of complete replacement of existing Fluorescent Tubes (FTs) by CFLs at National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) vis a vis the financial repercussions and indirect reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases e.g. CO2, N2O, CH4 and other air pollutants e.g. SO2, NO, suspended particulate matter (SPM), black carbon (BC) and mercury (Hg) from coal fired thermal power plants. The calculations show that the institute could save around 122850 kWh of electricity per annum, thereby saving approximately INR 859950/- (USD 18453.86) towards electricity cost per annum and would be able to minimize 44579.08 kg of CO2-C equivalent (over 100 year time horizon), 909 kg SO2, 982.8 kg NO, 9.8 kg of BC, 368.5 kg SPM, 18.4 Kg PM10 and 0.0024 kg Hg emissions per annum from a coal fired thermal power plant by conserving electricity at the institute level.
 
Publisher CSIR-NEERI
 
Date 2011-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/387/1/Published_2011-CFL-Paper.pdf
Wath, Sushant B and Majumdar, Deepanjan (2011) Mitigation of Air Pollution and Carbon Footprint by Energy Conservation Through CFLs: A Case Study. Journal of Environmental Science & Engineering , 53 (1). pp. 65-74. ISSN ISSN 0367-827 X
 
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