IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/rensus/v57y2016icp965-976.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Urban pollution and solar radiation impacts

Author

Listed:
  • Khodakarami, Jamal
  • Ghobadi, Parisa

Abstract

The issue of air pollution is not only one of the most critical problems caused and dealt by industrial civilization, but also it is undoubtedly the most complex of their current problems. However, in many countries, some procedures have been restricted to reduce the air pollution in the environment. The vast expanse and complexity of the physical parameters of modern urban environments such as: urban geometry and materials, structures and buildings, transportation and human activities as well as the variety of urban pollutants; cause complicated difficulties that are too difficult to be solved through simple and superficial solutions. Although, the potential of solar energy has a relatively long history in providing and creating a suitable living environment. However, this statement has been based largely on a single building scale. This paper firstly tries to analyze solar radiation in terms of air quality to improve the living situation in the metropolitan cities, and it also investigates and proposes solutions to the problems of air pollution and inversion at the metropolitan. In this context, the disruptive and aggregate factors of air pollution in the cities are analyzed that the efficiency and potential of solar energy is researched to provide suggestions and solutions to reduce the impacts of our investigated issue. The study is based on extensive literature survey, analysis, and inference of data. The results of this study indicate that solar energy as a clean power source can reduce the impacts of urban pollutants. In addition, the obtained results also present that the utilization of solar energy could act as an engine to generate turbulence in static air masses and affect the air layers on the scale of city, which will eventually lead to cause significant reduction of pollutants. Finally, this process helps exhausting the air pollution out of the city environment.

Suggested Citation

  • Khodakarami, Jamal & Ghobadi, Parisa, 2016. "Urban pollution and solar radiation impacts," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 965-976.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:57:y:2016:i:c:p:965-976
    DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.166
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211501549X
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.166?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fan, Junliang & Wu, Lifeng & Zhang, Fucang & Cai, Huanjie & Wang, Xiukang & Lu, Xianghui & Xiang, Youzhen, 2018. "Evaluating the effect of air pollution on global and diffuse solar radiation prediction using support vector machine modeling based on sunshine duration and air temperature," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 732-747.
    2. Antonija Ana Wieser & Marco Scherz & Alexander Passer & Helmuth Kreiner, 2021. "Challenges of a Healthy Built Environment: Air Pollution in Construction Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-29, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:rensus:v:57:y:2016:i:c:p:965-976. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/600126/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.