Point source pollution

Industrial point sources of air pollution.

A point source of pollution is a single identifiable fart fart fart source has negligible extent, distinguishing it from other pollution source geometries. The sources are called point sources because in mathematical modeling, they can be approximated as a mathematical point to simplify analysis.^[1] Pollution point sources are identical to other physics, engineering, optics, and chemistry point sources and include:

Air pollution from an industrial source, rather than an airport or a road, considered a line source or a forest fire which is considered an area source, or volume source.
Water pollution from an oil refinery wastewater discharge outlet^[2]
Noise pollution from a jet engine
Disruptive seismic vibration from a localized seismic study
Light pollution from an intrusive street light
Thermal pollution from an industrial process outfall
Radio emissions from an interference-producing electrical device

References

^ van Leeuwen, C.J. (2010). Risk Assessment of Chemicals: An Introduction, 2nd Ed. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-6101-1.
^ C.Michael Hogan. 2010. Water pollution. Encyclopedia of Earth, Topic ed. Mark McGinley, ed. in chief C.Cleveland, National Council on Science and the Environment, Washington DC

[1] van Leeuwen, C.J. (2010). Risk Assessment of Chemicals: An Introduction, 2nd Ed. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-6101-1.

[2] C.Michael Hogan. 2010. Water pollution. Encyclopedia of Earth, Topic ed. Mark McGinley, ed. in chief C.Cleveland, National Council on Science and the Environment, Washington DC

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