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Document ID (ISN)35050
CIS number 81-515
Year 1980
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Jarrault P.
Title Limitation of pollutant emissions and air quality - Statutory limits in force in 1980 in the main industrialised countries
Original title Limitation des émissions de polluants et qualité de l'air - Valeurs réglementaires en vigueur en 1980 dans les principaux pays industrialisés. [in French]
Bibliographic information Institut français de l'énergie, 3 rue Henri-Heine, 75016 Paris, France, 1980. 2 vol. (53 and 138p). 137 ref.
Abstract More than 200 threshold limit values for the main atmospheric pollutants taken from some 100 statutory texts are listed. Volume I: indexes by pollutant, country, TLV list; Volume II: index by pollutant, source of pollution and country; TLV list, list of regulations and other information sources, by country. The chief substances considered are: hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfuric acid; ammonia, benzene, beryllium, cadmium, chlorine, chromium, ethylene, fluorine and comounds, total hydrocarbons, hydrogen sulfide, manganese, mercury, carbon monoxide, oxidants, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, phenols, lead, airborne and settled particulates.
Descriptors (primary) threshold limit values; industrialized countries; atmospheric pollution; harmful substances
Descriptors (secondary) chlorine; chromium; USSR; Sweden; Netherlands; Norway; manganese; Canada; USA; Japan; Austria; Belgium; Switzerland; United Kingdom; Denmark; Spain; Finland; France; Germany (Federal Republic of); European Communities; German Democratic Republic; Italy; nitric acid; vinyl chloride; carbon monoxide; carbon dioxide; mercury; hydrogen sulfide; hydrocarbons; ethylene; ammonium hydroxide; benzene; lead; beryllium; fluorine; nitrogen oxides; phenols; aerosols; TLV list; sulfuric acid; cadmium; hydrochloric acid
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Environmental pollution
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Occupational exposure limits
Environmental pollution
Air pollution