Health benefits and control costs of tightening particulate matter emissions standards for coal power plants - The case of Northeast Brazil.

Air quality Coal power plants Electricity grid dispatch Emission standards Energy policy Health impacts Particulate matter Pollution control costs

Journal

Environment international
ISSN: 1873-6750
Titre abrégé: Environ Int
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7807270

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
03 2019
Historique:
received: 13 09 2018
revised: 18 12 2018
accepted: 10 01 2019
pubmed: 27 1 2019
medline: 10 7 2019
entrez: 26 1 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) caused an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide in 2015. However, PM emission standards for power plants vary widely. To explore if the current levels of these standards are sufficiently stringent in a simple cost-benefit framework, we compared the health benefits (avoided monetized health costs) with the control costs of tightening PM emission standards for coal-fired power plants in Northeast (NE) Brazil, where ambient PM concentrations are below World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. We considered three Brazilian PM

Identifiants

pubmed: 30682597
pii: S0160-4120(18)32080-4
doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.01.029
pmc: PMC7227787
mid: NIHMS1582994
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Air Pollutants 0
Coal 0
Particulate Matter 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

420-430

Subventions

Organisme : Intramural EPA
ID : EPA999999
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Auteurs

Daniel B Howard (DB)

Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. Electronic address: dbhoward@uci.edu.

Jesse Thé (J)

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. Electronic address: jesse.the@weblakes.com.

Rafael Soria (R)

Departmento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ladrón de Guevara E11·253, Quito, Pichincha EC 17-01-2759, Ecuador. Electronic address: rafael.soria01@epn.edu.ec.

Neal Fann (N)

National Expert and Team Lead for Assessing the Benefits of Air Quality, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Durham, NC 27709, USA. Electronic address: Fann.Neal@epa.gov.

Roberto Schaeffer (R)

Energy Planning Program, COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: roberto@ppe.ufrj.br.

Jean-Daniel M Saphores (JM)

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Economics, University of California, Irvine 92697, USA. Electronic address: saphores@uci.edu.

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