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4. Treatment processes
Nitrous oxide emissions can be controlled and reduced at two levels: at source or after treatment of the gases produced.
4.1 Source reduction
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The most elegant approach to minimizing nitrous oxide emissions is to drastically reduce their production at source.
In the case of diffuse emissions generated by agricultural soils, N 2 O production is the direct consequence of nitrogen transformations by soil bacteria (ie, nitrification and denitrification). To produce less N 2 O, soils should be treated less with nitrogen fertilizers. This solution is only conceivable if nitrogen fertilization of...
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Bibliography
Standards and norms
- Air quality - Stationary source emissions – Determination of nitrous oxide (N2O) concentration at emission using a non-dispersive infrared method. – Automatic method, 34 p. - AFNOR, XP X43-305 - 2005
- Méthode d'analyse de gaz par absorption d'un faisceau de radiations infrarouges non dispersé, 4 p. - AFNOR, NF X20-301 - 1978
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