Environmental Pollution Caused by Iron Producing Factories

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Introduction
The proposal is intended to be read by the owners or the operators of a facilities or
factories that are engaged in the industry of production of iron products and incidental
activities, Iron and steel industry representatives and other stakeholders. The purpose of the
following proposal is to solve the problem of environmental pollution caused by the iron
producing factories. The growing industrialisation is vital to meet the increasing pace of
evolutionary needs. Every industrial activity is bound to release some by-products which lead
to the environmental pollution in one or different ways. However, it is significant to regulate
the activities engaged in such processing activities in light of the sustainable environmental
practices and optimum utilisation of resources. The pollution not only impacts a local area
only but could even spread to regional or global scale, including through atmospheric
pollution.
Problem Statement
The Iron and Steel Industry is known to have significant impacts on global
environment. This is because of the involvement of the activities like vast mining, extensive
use of the large quantities of energy and minerals and disposal of the waste. Thus, there is an
overall pollution caused in the form of release of air pollutants, waste water sludge, as well as
solid by-products and residues. The main pollutants released by the iron producing factories
are the carbon monoxide, particulate matter and the oxides of sulphur and nitrogen (Xu &
Lin, 2016). There is a requirement of a guideline to optimum utilization of resources to
regulate the release of such harmful pollutants in the environment, thereby protecting the
environment. Under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the substances
released from the Iron and Steel sector are stated to be toxic (Government of Canada, 2016).
The consistent emissions of such toxic substances from the Iron industry would lead to the
depletion of the ozone layer, exhaustion of non-renewable energy sources, contribute in the
climate changes and have severe health impacts.
Approach to Research and Finding Solutions
The researcher is the right person to conduct the research because of collective
concerns of his generation and preferred area of interest. There are a wide range of possible
solutions that can be employed by the entities engaged in the said industry. Some of the
prima facie solutions that can be adopted by the entity are the efficient processes of

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production, installation of the pollution control systems in the precincts of the entity and
adopting environmental friendly practices. One of the efficient techniques of Scrubbing for
nitrogen oxides are quite popular in the country of Japan. However the same have only
started to be applied in some coking or sintering plants.
At first the entity must understand that the basic emissions can be bifurcated into two
categories namely the organised emissions and secondary emissions. While the former arise
through the installations, the latter are created as a result of spreading of emission due to non-
sealing. Thus, in order to address the issue of the environmental pollution from the emission,
both the issues of emission must be necessarily addressed by the entities. The entities must
further need to understand the step by step procedure and how each of the step contributes
either to the organised emissions or the secondary emissions. Further to state there is a need
to understand the varied kinds of pollution caused such as Thermal, Suspended matter, Toxic
substances, and rinse waters, waste acids and solutions from the finishing processes.
The entities can further choose one among or both of the dry and wet cleaning
techniques of the hard substances. The dry cleaning technique comprises of the following
control systems such as the inertial dust catchers, electro-static precipitators, dry cyclones and
the various kinds of cloth filters. Further, in wet technique, wet cyclones, wet cleaning
scrubbers and various kinds of venturis can be used by the entities, depending on the size and
nature of operations. The wet methods of gas cleaning are suitable in the areas of production,
where the gases containing explosive grade substances are used for the cleaning purposes,
and hence preventing the ignition.
Summary of own research
As the research was conducted it was found that there cannot be proposed a single
solution that is applicable universally to every enterprise involved in the Iron industry.
Hence, the best solution is to refine the steps or the activities involved in each stage which
will together lead to overall reduction of the emissions of waste and gases in the atmosphere.
Therefore the entities are suggested to adopt one or more of the processes if not all to reduce
the problem of environmental pollution to the maximum extent possible.