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Stricter environmental legislation in many countries is producing evertightening regulations and standards governing the emission of fine particles to the atmosphere from all sources. With the ease and rapid means of international communication, many believe that the control of pollution is a modern concept; history, however, indicates that the first recorded measure was in the UK, when, in the 1600s, Parliament prohibited the burning of bituminous sea coal in London, to avoid what the Clean Air Act of 1956 referred to as ‘smog’.
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Parker, K.R. (1997). Why an electrostatic precipitator?. In: Parker, K.R. (eds) Applied Electrostatic Precipitation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1553-4_1
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