EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Thermal pollution is a rapid change in temperature in a natural body of water. This pollution is most often caused by heated discharge from an industrial facility or another human activity. Thermal pollution can result in disruptions in natural systems and stress, disease, or even death for affected organisms.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thermal pollution is the discharge of heated water into bodies of water. The main contributors to thermal heat pollution are thermal or nuclear power plants; industrial effluents such as petroleum refineries, pulp and paper mills, chemical plants, steel mills and smelters; sewage effluents; and biochemical activity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thermal pollution is any deviation from the natural temperature in a habitat and can range from elevated temperatures associated with industrial cooling activities to discharges of cold water into streams below large impoundments.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thermal pollution is caused by industrial activity, which introduces heat into the environment in an uncontrolled manner, for example: The use of water as a cooling system: the main causes of this pollution are industrial and manufacturing plants.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fly ash is one of the major contributors to particulate matter, a major pollutant around thermal power plants, and contributes around 26 per cent of PM10 and PM2. 5, in summer6. TPPs generate large quantities of fly ash which require large areas as landfills or ponds for their disposal.