Economic crisis of Romania, new chance to relate pollution of surface water to contaminator [articol]

Abstract

Due to the economic crisis many industrial companies have reduced or stopped completely their production. By this also pollution of nature and surface water caused by industrial production has been significantly reduced. During economic recovery production plants will restart successively and measured imissions can be selectively allocated to contaminators. This also opens up the chance to better understand physical and chemical reactions and to optimize production processes in order to minimize pollution. The chemical complex Oltchim in Rm. Valcea has stopped main production since Nov. 2008. Oltchim operates the biggest Oxo-alcohol production in Romania and is a significant contaminator of aldehydes. Aldehydes have hardly been considered in the past, even if they can have significant effects on health. Standardized measurements and standardizes methods for samplings don’t exist yet in Romania. Denuders have proven to be useful for sampling of imissions and emissions.