国际英语新闻:中国建立世界上最大的空气净化器
编者按:英语新闻会播报一些国际性的新闻,作为中学生的同学也需要关注时事热点,方便考试中写作的素材积累,我们来看一则国际新闻。
A 100-metre high air purification tower in Xian in Shaanxi province has helped reduce smog levels in the city.
An experimental tower over 100 metres high in Xi'an, Shaanxi province has brought a noticeable improvement in air quality, according to the scientists leading the project, as authorities seek ways to tackle the nation’s chronic smog problem.
Image: Arch Daily
The head of the research, Cao Junji, said improvements in air quality had been observed over an area of 10 square kilometres in the city over the past few months and the tower has managed to produce more than 10 million cubic metres of clean air a day since its launch. Cao added that on severely polluted days the tower was able to reduce smog close to moderate levels.
Image: AP
The system works through greenhouses covering about half the size of a soccer field around the base of the tower.
Polluted air is sucked into the glasshouses and heated up by solar energy. The hot air then rises through the tower and passes through multiple layers of cleaning filters.
“The tower has no peer in terms of size … the results are quite encouraging,” said Cao.
Image: CNBC
Xi'an can experience heavy pollution in winter, with much of the city’s heating relying on coal.
The tower’s operators say, however, that the system still works in the cold months as coatings on the greenhouses enable the glass to absorb solar radiation at a much higher efficiency.
Cao’s team set up more than a dozen pollution monitoring stations in the area to test the tower’s impact.
The average reduction in PM2.5 – the fine particles in smog deemed most harmful to health – fell 15 per cent during heavy pollution.
Image: SCMP
Cao said the results were preliminary because the experiment is still ongoing. The team plans to release more detailed data in March with a full scientific assessment of the facility’s overall performance.
The Xi'an smog tower project was launched in 20xx and construction was completed last year. The purpose of the project was to find an effective, low cost method to artificially remove pollutants from the atmosphere.
Cao said their tower in Xian required little power to run.
“It barely requires any power input throughout daylight hours. The idea has worked very well in the test run,” he said.
Several people in Xian told the South China Morning Postthey had noticed the difference since the tower started operating.
A manager at a restaurant about 1 kilometer from the tower said she noticed an improvement in air quality this winter. “I do feel better,” she said.
A student studying environmental science at Shaanxi Normal University, a few hundred metres from the tower, also noted noticable improvement in air quality.
“I can’t help looking at the tower each time I pass. It’s very tall, very eye-catching, but it’s also very quiet. I can’t hear any wind going in or out,” she said. “The air quality did improve. I have no doubt about that.”
The experimental facility in Xian is a scaled-down version of a much bigger smog tower that Cao and his colleagues hope to build in other cities in China in the future.
A full-sized tower would reach 500 metres high with a diameter of 200 metres, according to a patent application they filed in 20xx.
The size of the greenhouses could cover nearly 30 square kilometres and the plant would be powerful enough to purify the air for a small sized city.
作者|GiC Team
公众号:GuideinChina
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