Urban pollution and solar radiation impacts

Jamal Khodakarami and Parisa Ghobadi

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016, vol. 57, issue C, 965-976

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.

Keywords: Solar energy; Urban air layers; Air pollution; Urban air inversion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2015.12.166

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