Title: Application of Strategies for Particulate Matter Reduction in Urban Areas: An Italian Case
Abstract: VINCENZO TORRETTA, MASSIMO RABONI, SABRINA COPELLI, ELENA CRISTINA RADA, MARCO RAGAZZI, GABRIELA IONESCU, TIBERIU APOSTOL, and ADRIAN BADEA3.1 INTRODUCTIONIn the past 15 years the concentrations of particulate matter (PM) in Europe is decreasing [1], although they are still very common situations exceeding the thresholds set by the new regulations. Northern Italy is one of the most polluted in Europe. Italian PM10 emissions begin to decline from 1994 and from that year showed a 30% decrease. The road transport sector in the last three years has contributed to the total emissions as the second emissive share (about 20%), while industrial combustion represents the 35% of total emissions. Compared with the data obtained in 2008 emissions of PM10 decreased of the 11%. The most significant contributions to the reduction of emissions of this pollutant are related to the non-industrial combustion (-12%), road transport (-7%) and combustionin industry (-25%). The reduction in the field of civil heating is due not only to the reduction in the consumption of wood, but also to the change of the emission factors [2,3,4].