Intervention of environmental engineering principles in the investigation of the viable air pollution mitigation methods with IFS tool

Abstract

Air is the most indispensable need of the human to live in this world, but in the past decades the quality of air we inhale is being polluted by the emission of pollutants from industries which contributes highly in comparison with the other dynamic and area sources of pollutants. Air pollution is not just the contamination of the air alone, rather it is the destruction of the life of living organisms. Quality of an individual’s health depends on the quality of the air he breathes. The legal warnings from the government and welfare alarms from voluntary associations in failing to promote the quality of air have propelled the industrial sectors to practice robust air pollution mitigation (APM) methods. The challenging task of the industries is the selection of appropriate APM method from the existing numerous methods after evaluating each method’s degree of fulfilling the essential criteria. This research work presents four major APM methods cum ten vital criteria by considering the intervention of environmental engineering principles of monitoring the quality of APM methods. To make the decision making process more consistent, intutionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) are used which are highly compatible than other fuzzy representations. The ranking results of APM methods are made by using various significant measures of IFS to find the viable APM method of condensing the hurdles of industrial sectors in upholding environmental sustainability.