Emissões atmosféricas em uma indústria de fabricação de panelas em alumínio no Sudoeste do Paraná

Abstract

The production process from industries that handle aluminum as a raw material is responsible for releasing tons of pollutants into the atmosphere annually, causing a great impact on the ideal condition of the atmospheric air and air quality in the internal environments of the enterprise. Among them, we can highlight the deterioration of materials due to reactions of these wastes with other atmospheric components, the insertion of exogenous elements into ecosystems that undermine the structures of fauna and flora and the deterioration of the health of the population that lives and works nearby. The objective of this work is to evaluate and quantify the concentration of pollutants from emissions generated by stationary sources or fixed sources, from an industry that produces aluminum artifacts, where the contaminants identified during the research come from polishing performed on these artifacts. The samples were collected through isokinetic sampling, in which measurements were taken during the years 2021 and 2022. The data obtained are compared with the parameters pre-established by the current legislation. To this end, monitoring was carried out in order to identify the concentration of total particulate material (MPT) produced by the industry. In this way, the objectives of the research were to verify the levels of atmospheric pollution emitted, which allows to evaluate in a quantitative and qualitative way, in addition to promoting a sustainable and environmentally safe development.