Vol. 7, Issue 2 (2019)
Vehicular green house gases and non-GHG emissions through daily transport within university campus, in north-west Haryana, India
Author(s): Gulshan Kumar, Rampreeti Rana, Smita Chaudhry and Ajay Kumar Mishra
Abstract: Due to the rapid increase in the transport sector, with diverse vehicles globally generate a huge amount of GHG and non-GHG emissions. Education hubs are considered to be least polluted in terms of air quality, however, very few studies, mostly for developed nations are available on quantification of GHG and non GHG emissions. With these facts, vehicular emission inventories were performed for vehicles commuting within Kurukshetra University campus in North-West Haryana, India. This study reports, Among the GHG emissions, CO2 alone contributes 97.9% through different types of vehicles andamong the non-GHG emissions, CO contributes 56.3% through different types of vehicles. Cars (petrol and diesel) emitted68.3 t/year of CO2 emission, which is 74.1% of the total CO2emissions by other vehicles. Motor bikes contributed 36% to the total GHG and 72% to the total non-GHG emissions, respectively. In the total GHG emission, vehicles driven by diesel and petrol contributed 58% and42%, respectively. Whereas, in total non-GHG emission, vehicles driven by diesel and petrol contributed 24% and 76%, respectively. Data generated in the present study can be used as a baseline study for emissions from the vehicles commuting within the university campus. This study enables administrators and universityleaders to understand, quantify, and manage the emissions as well as make informed decisions towardsreducing the global warming impact of the vehicular transport in the campus through CO2 emissions reduction.
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Gulshan Kumar, Rampreeti Rana, Smita Chaudhry, Ajay Kumar Mishra. Vehicular green house gases and non-GHG emissions through daily transport within university campus, in north-west Haryana, India. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(2):829-834.
