Smokestacks waft pollution away from ground level and engineers use complex models to design them.
When we look at the world and examine of the pollution producing aspects of it, we might consider smokestacks to be some of the worst offenders. While that is technically true, smokestacks also actually serve an important purpose of keeping ground-level air safe to breathe and help manage the pollution produced.
After the invention of chimney, it was gradually iterated on until around about the 18th century, when the Industrial Revolution spread the use of the chimney to industrial buildings like factories and forges.While 18th century London, Paris, New York – all the large cities of the time – were quite polluted, they would actually have been far more polluted if the manufacturing facilities they hosted didn't use smokestacks.
Once these pollutants enter the body, they can lodge in the lungs or the bloodstream, eventually collecting in various organs, especially the lungs and liver. This, in turn, can lead to serious health problems.can include interference with normal bodily and chemical functions. At the most basic level, the pollutants change the chemical reactions in individual cells, which can cause cell death, cell function impairment, or lead to cancer.
These diagrams should give you a brief introduction to just how hard it is to calculate and measure pollution from any given smokestack. I'm going to have to draw a line in this article with a basic introduction of what smokestacks do instead of running actual calculations of smokestacks. Because, this article isn't strictly academic in nature, but rather one for general education.
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