Thoughts and Suggestions on Odor Control Strategies

Yujing Wang, Hua Zhang, Fan Lyu, Bin Xu, Pinjing He

Strategic Study of CAE ›› 2025

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Strategic Study of CAE ›› 2025 DOI: 10.15302/J-SSCAE-2024.12.020

Thoughts and Suggestions on Odor Control Strategies

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Odor pollution is one of the environmental problems which have caused the strongest public complaints and drawn great attention of the government. Strengthening odor control is important for comprehensively accelerating the ecological civilization construction of China. This study overviews the development status of odor control in China from the aspects of research progress on odor characteristics, development status of odor control technologies, establishment status of the odor-related standards system, and odor control performance. It also analyzes the problem of odor annoyance caused by the emissions which meet the standards, and the drawbacks in terms of odorant measurement and monitoring, major odor contributor identification, standards system construction, secondary pollution control, and coordinated control of multiple pollutants. Furthermore, it suggests that highly sensitive and economically feasible measurement and online monitoring technologies should be further developed for the odorants to complement the odor profile of various odor sources. It is worthy developing the identification methods for major odor contributors, particularly applying big data and artificial intelligence, to support targeted pollution control. It is also necessary to develop the odor-related standards system based on the odor characteristics of different industries. Moreover, effective, environmentally friendly, and collaborative control technologies should be developed for odorants, greenhouse gases, and other pollutants considering their coexisting characteristics.

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odor / source characteristics / identification methods / standards / co-control of greenhouse gases and pollutants

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Yujing Wang, Hua Zhang, Fan Lyu, Bin Xu, Pinjing He. Thoughts and Suggestions on Odor Control Strategies. Strategic Study of CAE, 2025 https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2024.12.020

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Funding
Funding project: Chinese Academy of Engineering project "Strategies for Remediation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste Landfills"(2023-HZ-22); National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFD1100600)
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