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Baogang Zhang, Xianglu Cai and Ming Liu
The weather in the high latitudes of China is cold in winter. The pollution caused by the burning of biomass fuels used in rural individual heating is a great threat to human health. This study finds that the amounts of CO2, CO, PM2.5, and PM10 in the be...
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Balram Ambade, Tapan Kumar Sankar, Lokesh K. Sahu and Umesh Chandra Dumka
Black carbon (BC) and PM2.5 chemical characterizations are crucial for insight into their impact on the health of the exposed population. PM2.5 sampling was carried out over selected residential sites of Jamshedpur (JSR) and Kharagpur (KGP), east India, ...
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N.C. Nkosi, R.P. Burger, N.R. Matandirotya , C. Pauw, S.J. Piketh
Domestic solid fuel combustion remains a key contributor to indoor and ambient air pollution in low-income settlements. Understanding solid-fuel cost perceptions and burning patterns variability is required for developing sustainable energy policies and ...
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M. Morales-Máximo, V.M. Ruíz-García, L. B. López-Sosa and J. G. Rutiaga-Quiñones
This study describes the exploitation of wood waste (Pinus spp.) in the form of sawdust and shavings generated during the production of furniture and artisanal items in a community in the state of Michoacán, western Mexico. A process is described to dens...
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Myoungki Song, Kwonho Lee, Sea-Ho Oh and Min-Suk Bae
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), an important class of hazardous airborne pollutants, are mutagenic and carcinogenic substances known to be released during the paving of asphalt. In this study, PAHs emitted from an asphalt mix plant were analyzed...
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Kirsi Spoof-Tuomi and Seppo Niemi
The shipping industry is looking for strategies to comply with increasingly stringent emission regulations. Fuel has a significant impact on emissions, so a switch to alternative fuels needs to be evaluated. This study investigated the emission performan...
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Jong-Min Park, Young-Ji Han, Sung-Hwan Cho and Hyun-Woong Kim
PM2.5 has been a serious issue in South Korea not only in urban and industrial areas but also in rural and background areas. In this study, PM2.5 and its carbonaceous compounds including organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon (EC), water-soluble organic c...
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Xin Wang, Zhenxing Shen, Yaling Zeng, Fobang Liu, Qian Zhang, Yali Lei, Hongmei Xu, Junji Cao and Liu Yang
Day-night PM10-bound PAHs were studied at an urban site of Xi?an from 20 December 2006 to 28 October 2007. The annual mean concentration of nighttime PAHs (285.0 ng m-3) was higher than that in daytime (239.4 ng m-3). A significant difference of PAH conc...
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Alice Freiberg, Julia Scharfe, Vanise C. Murta and Andreas Seidler
The utilization of biomass for power generation has become more prevalent globally. To survey the status of evidence concerning resulting health impacts and to depict potential research needs, a scoping-review was conducted. Biomass life cycle phases of ...
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Aboubacar Badamassi, Deyi Xu and Boubacar Hamidou Leyla
Residential combustion of fuels, especially solid, for cooking, heating and other activities generates high level emissions that considerably contribute to indoor and outdoor air pollutants concentrations, which adversely affect human health and are like...
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