Prevention and Control of Air Pollution in Industries in Kerala - An Evaluation Study

The significance prevailing in India with regards to air pollution is that most of the industrial units are located in populated area. Industrial estates and complexes have been located closely to the residential area without considering of the consequence of the environmental pollution. Emission from such industrial units close to residential area damages to human and animal life. It is observed that emission rate from Indian industries when compared to other countries indicated that refineries, cement factories, steel, coal-based power plant, oil-based power stations, sulphuric acid units and petrochemical industries emit considerable quantity of pollutants. Air quality has been undertaken in some of the industries in India shows that Indian industrial chimneys and power houses emit pollutant to air such as SPM (suspended particulate matter) smoke, dust, sulphuric dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, fluorides, silicon etc. Emission whether it is from particular industries or from a group of industries all in fact pollutes the atmosphere. The available resources and know how should be utilized by every industry to the optimum extent in order to bring down the effect of environmental pollution. An attempt has been made to find out to what extent the study unit complied with the provision of air pollution act 1981 in order to prevent and control the air pollution in state industries.