Designing, construction and standardization of fumigation chamber and simulating major pollutants (SOx, NOx and Fly Ash) ) within the chamber was one of the major research initiative successfully undertaken by the Scitech Park, Pune. This recently concluded project is considered as one of largest open top fumigation chamber that enables enclosure of full grown tree species enabling assessment of impacts on the natural reproducive outputs of plant coupled with rigorous simulation set up, resulting in maintenance of constant levels SOx, NOx and Fly Ash concentrations.

This designing, construction and simulation of pollutants has enabled scientists to assess and predict beforehand the impacts of coal based thermal power plants on major economic crops such as Mango, Cashewnut and Sapota. In the wake of growing energy demand and requirement of sustainable environmental solutions, such studies are gaining importance for its scientific utility in understanding impacts beforehand and providing sound advice on various interventions including that of technological ones required to exercise to maintain levels of emissions within the prescribed limits by the regulatory authorities as well as to a level which is less harmful to the critical growth, physiology or reproductive ecology of the plant.

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