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• Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, as defined by the Brundtland Report, 1987.
• The idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs is another key concept in Sustainable Development.
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals for the world’s future, through 2030, backed up by a set of 169 detailed Targets negotiated over a two-year period at the United Nations and agreed to by nearly all the world’s Nations on September 25, 2015.
• The three pillars of SDG are Social (People), Economic (Prosperity), and Environmental (Planet), with other Ps including Peace and Partnerships.
• The 17 Sustainable Development Goals include ending poverty, achieving food security, ensuring healthy lives, promoting quality education, achieving gender equality, ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation, and ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy.
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are also known as the Global Goals.
• Absorption is a physical or chemical process of removing a pollutant from a gas phase media by dissolving the pollutant into a solvent media.
• The most common form of absorption is wet scrubbing.
• A wet scrubber is the generic name of a control device that uses the process of absorption to separate the pollutant from a gas stream.
• Solvent media is most commonly a liquid phase, but can be a dry bulk solid in certain systems.
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are divided into three pillars: Social (People), Economic (Prosperity), and Environmental (Planet), with other Ps including Peace and Partnerships.
• The contaminates being removed in adsorption are referred to as the adsorbate, and the solid doing the adsorbing is called the adsorbent.
• The material that absorbs in absorption is called the solvent, and the gas that is to be absorbed is called the solute.
• Adsorption is a mass transfer process in which a porous solid comes in contact with a liquid or gaseous stream to selectively remove pollutants or contaminates by depositing (adsorbing) them onto the solid.
• A gas scrubbing method in which contaminants are removed from the gas stream involves the gas stream passing through a packed structure with a large wet surface area.
• More than half the world population lives in cities and targets for this goal include addressing issues like transportation, disaster preparedness, as well as preservation of the world’s cultural and natural heritage.
• These pollutants are generally hydrocarbon based and when destroyed via thermal combustion they are chemically oxidized to form CO2 and H2O.
• Chemical scrubbing devices are systems that inject a dry reagent or slurry into a dirty exhaust stream to "wash out" acid gases.
• The world is massively unequal and policies should be universal in principle, paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.
• Thermal oxidation/incineration destroys hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from industrial air streams at a high temperature and releases them into the atmosphere.
• Access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable institutions at all levels are targets for this goal.
• Three main factors in designing the effective thermal oxidizers are temperature, residence time, and turbulence.
• Targets for this goal include financial market regulation to make the playing field more equal, making migration more orderly, safe, regular and responsible.
• Targets for this goal include research and learning to find out more about what lies beneath the oceans so as to better save them.
• SDG 3 focuses on health and the impact of environmental degradation on health.
• SDG 6 focuses on water, sanitation and hygiene, including domestic water, wastewater.
• Green building, also known as sustainable building, is a structure that is designed, built, renovated, operated, or reused in an ecological and resource-efficient manner.
• SDG 14 focuses on life below water, including biodiversity, ecosystem.
• SDG 11 focuses on sustainable cities and communities, including air quality, solid waste, chemical waste.
• Green building is a proactive way to address issues of conventional design by creating buildings that minimize the use of non-renewable resources, maximize the use of renewable resources, promote people’s health, reduce harm to the environment, and minimize the building's footprint by using existing surfaces, lightening roof color and using natural shading.
• SDG 12 focuses on responsible consumption, including solid waste, chemical waste.
• Water quality and conservation in green building involve designing for dual plumbing to use recycled water or rainwater for toilet flushing, minimizing wastewater by using ultra low-flush toilets, low-flow shower heads, waterless urinals, and other water conserving fixtures, installing point-of-use hot water heating systems for more distant locations, using state-of-the-art water use controllers, such as self-closing nozzles on taps and hoses, and eliminating leaks, caulking around pipes and plumbing fixtures, and conducting annual checks of hoses and pipes.
• Sustainable site design involves selecting a new site only when necessary, avoiding areas where local ecosystem will be damaged or harmed, orienting the building to a position that can utilize natural elements like solar energy, heat, ventilation, shade and drainage, and setting a water budget and implementing features that help achieve the budget.
• SDG 15 focuses on life on land, including biodiversity, ecosystem.
• SDG 13 focuses on climate change, including temperature, precipitation.
• Stationary sources refer to any building or immobile structure, facility, or installation that emits or may emit any air pollutant and may be defined generally as individual points of air emissions.
• Area sources are small-scale industrial, commercial, and residential sources that generate emissions.
• Examples of stationary sources include an oil refinery, which transforms or refines crude oil into various usable petroleum products such as diesel, gasoline, and heating oils like kerosene.
• Non-road mobile sources include aircraft, boats, trains, lawnmowers, construction vehicles, dirt bikes, farm equipment, leaf blowers, and more.