Air protection
Air pollution control aims at maintaining high air quality in order to preserve healthy and pleasant residential environments and viable natural ecosystems.
To prevent or reduce harmful emissions into air from the main sources - industrial plants, power stations, transport and agriculture - the EU has set tight obligations for member states.
Finland has responded to these standards by using its clean technologies for improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions in energy production, industrial processes and transport. In addition, Finland has developed purification technology for exhaust gases and other air pollutants.
Finnish technologies used around the world
The Finnish clean technologies are in use in several countries around the world, because they offer solutions to companies that combines clean technologies with cost savings in a very concrete way.
Besides clean process and energy technologies, Finnish technology expertise for air protection covers:
- solutions to reduce emissions from machines, power plants, ships and vehicles
- catalytic technology for volatile organic compounds (VOC) treatment
- information and communication solutions to reduce the need for physical mobility
- utilizing satellite information to help drivers to avoid traffic congestions
- measuring air quality and process emissions
- development of measuring instruments.
Facts of the sector:
- Over the last two decades the sulphur dioxide emissions have declined in Finland near 90% and nitrogen oxides about 50%.
- VOC-emissions, resulting from the storage and distribution of petrol and from industrial solvents, have dropped by about 50%.
