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Emission Control Technologies field for thermal plants #5

Open loganbyers opened 6 years ago

loganbyers commented 6 years ago

Description

Emission Control Technology: categorical Technological implementations used to regulate gaseous and particulate emissions. Relevant to most emission species in #1; in particular, control technology fields will be required for estimation of these species.

Possible Steps to Acquisition

  1. Define vocabulary
  2. Acquire data sources
  3. ETL

Possible Data Sources

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Vocabulary

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Challenges

Many technologies can exist for same power plant. Need generation unit disaggregation to be most accurate.

Additional Info

keywords: emissions, scrubbers, air quality, capture, pollution