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## Meet the editor

Marquidia Pacheco received her Master's and PhD degrees in Physics and Plasma Engineering and a postdoctoral research on car exhaust treatment by plasma in France. Her research work has been published in two patents, two book chapters, one book, 43 indexed journals, and 126 congresses. She has organized four congresses and is director of 33 engineering and postgraduate theses*.* She obtained distinctions as the *Silver Medal in the Week* 

*of Science and Innovation 2009* in Mexico City and in the same year received an award granted by *AMC-UNESCO-L'OREAL 2009* for *Women in Science* for her trajectory on plasmas applied to environmental topics. She is cofounder of Sembrando ConCiencias, which involves children in science.

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

and Coal Plants **7**

**Chapter 2 9** Clean Coal Technology Adaptability and R and D Support for Efficiency and

**Chapter 3 25**

Technologies to Diminish Greenhouse Gases **43**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 63**

**Chapter 6 83**

Introductory Chapter: Green Technologies to Improve the Environment

Technologies Applied to Diminish Pollutants of Mining Industries

The Application of Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Greenhouse Gas

Geothermal Energy as an Alternative to Reduce Atmospheric Emissions

Greenhouse Gases Reforming and Hydrogen Upgrading by Using Warm

*by Zayre I. González-Acevedo and Marco A. García-Zarate*

*by Joel O. Pacheco-Sotelo, Ricardo Valdivia-Barrientos* 

Electric Vehicles Are a Zero-Emission Technology?

**Section 1**

Contents

on Earth

**Section 2**

Sustainability *by Tankiso Pitso*

*by Ali Soofastaei*

**Section 3**

*by Marquidia Josseline Pacheco Pacheco*

Emissions in the Mining Industry

and Provide Green Energy

*and Marquidia Pacheco-Pacheco*

*by Alfredo Santana-Diaz*

Plasma Technology

## Contents


*by Alfredo Santana-Diaz*


Preface

Environmental sustainability is vital to improve global equity, liberty and even security of entire nations. When the environment is compromised, lives are endangered and opportunities of people to access a better life are severely truncated.

Several efforts have been done worldwide, for example, in the 2017 report; the UN Environment described many activities realized against the alarming increase of pollution of air and water around the world. Additional subjects also treated as emblematic, are the climate change, wildlife crime, micro-plastic pollution and land degradation. The aim of this book is then to introduce some emergent technologies

IntechOpen itself achieved a second objective of this book, because they have supported women scientists worldwide with the edition of their books. This funding is very important; commonly in developing countries, the advance in science is very limited because economic resource destined to science and education is not enough. These restrictions are more marked if scientists are women. In order to develop science in poorest countries and to decrease the gender gap existing in scientific field, free access networks to scientific documents becomes essential. Free access to science could contribute to ameliorate life conditions, and from the personal point of view of this editor, it could make people more empathic of breaking barriers and

This book contains enough information for beginners to start with, and also more detailed information for advanced readers. The book is divided into three main themes concerning some green technologies applied to diminish the atmospheric pollution, the global warming caused by greenhouse gases (GHG) and, as a final

In particular in Chapter 1, an introductory review briefly gives a background of environmental problems and some of emergent technologies used to reduce them.

Several efforts have to been done by researchers in order to diminish GHG, by using, for example, alternative sources like geothermal energy as depicted in

Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 are about clean technologies to diminish gaseous pollutants emitted by coal and mining industries. Specifically, T. Pitso gives, in the chapter entitled "*Clean coal technologies adaptability and R&D support for efficiency and sustainability",* an overview of clean coal technologies and the principal challenges they face. A. Soofastaei, depicts the mitigation of mining industry by better managing the operations in *"The application of artificial intelligence to reduce greenhouse gas* 

point, to enhance the preservation of endangered species.

able to achieve some of the goals proposed by the United Nations.

get closer to peace.

**Structure of the Book**

*emissions in the mining industry"*.
