Exhaust emissions from agricultural tractors in West Pomerania, Poland
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https://doi.org/10.24425/jwld.2025.156051Abstract
The intensification of agricultural production is increasing environmental pollution in rural areas. A significant contribution to air pollution in this respect comes from the combustion of fuel by tractor engines that drive agricultural machinery and equipment. The most important pollutants from this source, which have a negative impact on the atmosphere as well as on human health, include diazotium oxide (N2O), carbon dioxide (CO2 ), and carbon monoxide (CO). Determining emissions is not an easy matter, if only because of their great diversity in terms of age, operating time, technical condition, as well as the type of operations performed, agrotechnical procedures. The paper attempts to estimate the emission of pollutants from fuel combustion by agricultural tractor engines in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The basic source of energy on farms is the energy from the combustion of conventional fuels - mainly diesel - by engines of tractors and machines enabling the majority of field work to be carried out. The most common engines used in these tractors are diesel engines, mainly turbocharged with direct injection (DI). On the basis of the developed load cycle, data from the Central Register of Vehicles and Drivers database and laboratory tests, spatial maps of emissions of individual toxic components of exhaust gases were obtained in all the districts of the region. Analysis of the results showed, among other things, that the Gryfice district is the most heavily burdened with these pollutants and the Police district the least.References
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