Air Pollution Essay

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With increase in industrialization and immense emission from vehicles due to huge transportation and much more, India is facing serious problems due to rising air pollution. Among all the pollutants released, SOx is one of the dangerous ingredients of polluted air. Apart from various health problems such as heart failure and breathing difficulties, Sox causes environmental hazards such as damage and destruction of water courses, vegetation, construction material and deterioration in soil quality. AQI is an indicator of air quality which depicts how polluted the breathing air is and forecasts how polluted it is to become. AQI helps government agencies to take preventive measures and steps to control the pollution level. Artificial neural network (ANN) is a computational model based on the structure and functions of the biological neuron and can be used for prediction after proper training is given to the network
Keywords—pollution, AQI, Artifical Neural Network
I. Introduction
India is a developing country and with this era of industrialization most cities are suffering from serious air quality problems.[14] Along with industrialization, rapid growth in population is also a major cause for increasing air pollution[15]Air pollutants, such as carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ozone (O3), heavy metals, and respirable particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10), differ in their chemical composition, reaction properties,

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