The urban areas of Pakistan exhibit some of the world’s highest levels of air pollution, primarily due to sub-2.5 μm particulate emissions. This issue significantly impairs both the country’s economy and the quality of life of its resi...
The global concern of escalating ambient air pollution and its profound impact on human health is paramount. While traffic police personnel are critical for maintaining the road safety and transportation system of any city in India, they are suscepti...
Air pollution’s effects on physical health, especially cardiovascular and respiratory, are well known. Exposure to air pollution may damage every organ and cell in the human body. New evidence is emerging showing that air pollution adversely af...
Air pollution is a major public health concern. The region of South Texas in the United States has experienced high levels of air pollution in recent years due to an increase in population, cross-border trade between the U.S.A. and Mexico, and high v...
One of people’s greatest concerns about air quality degradation is its impact on human health. This work is a case study that aims to investigate the air quality and the related impact on people’s health in a coastal city over the eastern...
Air (ISSN 2813-4168) is a new peer-reviewed, international, open access online academic journal for scientists in different disciplines related to air’s composition and impacts [...]
The vehicle in-cabin is subject to several types of pollutants infiltrating from the outdoors or emitted directly inside it, such as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). The concentration of TVOC (total volatile organic compounds) is the result of the...
Air pollution knows no boundaries, which means for a city or a region to attain clean air standards, we must not only look at the emission sources within its own administrative boundary but also at sources in the immediate vicinity and those originat...
Indoor air quality (IAQ) significantly impacts human health, particularly in enclosed spaces where people spend most of their time. This study evaluates the performance of low-cost IAQ sensors, focusing on their ability to measure carbon dioxide (CO2...
The increasing population and its associated amenities demand innovative devices, infrastructure, methods, plans and policies. Regional climate has a great role in deciding the air quality and energy demand, and therefore, weather and climate have an...
Source apportionment of observed PM2.5 concentrations is of growing interest as communities seek ways to improve their air quality. We evaluated publicly available PM2.5 data from the USEPA in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area to determin...
This study investigates the performance of different demand-controlled ventilation strategies for improving indoor air quality while optimizing energy efficiency. The experimental research was conducted at the Indoor Live Lab at the University of Coi...
Harsh winters, aging infrastructure, and the demand for modern amenities are major factors contributing to the deteriorating air quality in Bishkek. The city meets its winter heating energy needs through coal combustion at the central heating plant,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the global understanding of airborne disease transmission, particularly in healthcare environments. This literature review examines how building ventilation and indoor air quality strategies have evolved in response...
Wildfires pose a direct threat to the property, life, and well-being of the population of Montana, USA, and indirectly to their health through hazardous smoke and gases emitted into the atmosphere. Studies have shown that elevated levels of particula...
The greatest challenge of the coming century will be the consequences of an imbalanced atmosphere. Currently, projections of global heating due to an increasingly imbalanced atmosphere are dire, but they underestimate the near-term heating impacts of...
Overtraffic is one of the main keys to air pollution in urban areas. The aim of the present work is to review the approaches and explore the potentiality of AI in reducing traffic pollution in urban areas, ranging over three main areas: the optimizat...
The transportation sector has a significant impact on climate change, as it is responsible for 20% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper evaluates the role of electric vehicles (EVs) in achieving Europe’s ambitious target of...
In this work, the catalytic performance of clinoptilolite (CLIN) and SBA-15 catalysts, doped with Fe and Cu, was evaluated in the selective catalytic reduction of NO using NH3 as a reducing agent (SCR-NH3). Both Cu-CLIN and Fe-CLIN were obtained by i...
Air pollution is a leading cause of death in the United States and is associated with adverse health outcomes, including increased vulnerability to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The AirBeam2 was used to measure particulate matter with a diamet...
Ethylene oxide (EtO) is a colorless, flammable gas at room temperature produced by the catalytic oxidation of ethylene. EtO is widely used by medical sterilization facilities to clean medical supplies and equipment. Recent epidemiological studies sho...
This paper describes an innovative method that recursively applies the machine learning Random Forest to an assumed homogeneous aerographic domain around measurement sites to predict concentrations and emissions of ammonia, an atmospheric pollutant t...
This article is a case study of museum premises at the Museum of King John III’s Palace at Wilanow (Warsaw, Poland), wetted as a result of a failure of the water supply system to the air conditioning unit located in the attic of the building. A...
The goal of this study is to describe a design architecture for a self-powered IoT (Internet of Things) sensor network that is currently being deployed at various locations throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex to measure and report on Particula...
The increase in industrial activities has raised concerns regarding air quality in urban areas within Malawi. To assess the source apportionment of air quality parameters (AQPs) and noise levels, concentrations of AQPs (CO, TSP, PM 2.5, PM10) and noi...
Air pollution is an escalating global challenge with profound implications for agricultural production and food security. This review explores the impacts of deteriorating air quality on global crop yields and food security, emphasizing both direct p...
Air quality monitoring in Ireland is under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency in compliance with the Gothenburg Protocol, EU/national legislation, and the National Clean Air Strategy. Secondary inorganic aerosols (SIAS) have been...
The authors present an analysis of the correlation between demographic and territorial indicators and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, emphasizing the spatial aspect using statistical methods. Particular attention is given to the application of correl...
As the global aviation sector expands to accommodate increasing air travel demand, the subsequent rise in flights exacerbates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, challenging the sector’s environmental sustainability. Targeting net-zero emissions by...
Museums play a vital role in preserving cultural heritage and for this reason, they require strict indoor environmental controls. Balancing indoor environmental quality with reduced energy consumption poses significant challenges. Over the course of...
The impact of relative humidity (RH) on organic new particle formation (NPF) from the ozonolysis of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) remains an area of active debate. Previous reports provide contradictory results, indicating both the depr...
Background: Growing evidence suggests that air pollution may influence fetal development, with potential consequences for later health. Alteration of telomere length (TL) is one possible mediating mechanism for the link between fetal exposure to air...
Tobacco smoking and electronic cigarette (EC) use are associated with elevated levels of particulate matter (PM) and nicotine in indoor environments. This study assessed filtration and nicotine capture efficiency of untreated and citric acid-treated...
Indoor air pollution constitutes a public health problem due to the long time that individuals spend in enclosed spaces every day. The present study aims to investigate the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in indoor air in households in Sen...
Soldering is a common engineering practice that releases airborne particulate matter (PM), contributing to significant long-term respiratory risk. The health impact of this exposure is significant, with up to 22% of soldering workers worldwide being...
Particulate matter (PM) is a critical component of urban air pollution, with severe implications for human health and environmental ecosystems. This study investigates the capacity of green roofs at the Warsaw University Library to mitigate air pollu...
This paper presents a novel machine learning methodology able to extend the results of detailed local emission inventories to larger domains where emission estimates are not available. The first part of this work consists in the development of an emi...
Airports are significant contributors of atmospheric pollutant aerosols, namely ultrafine particles (UFPs). This study characterizes the particle number concentration (PNC), the median particle size (dmn50), and the metallic composition of medium-hau...
This study compares the PM10 (particulate matter of diameter smaller than 10 μm) organic aerosol composition between urban and suburban stations in Heraklion, Crete, during winter 2024 in order to highlight the impact of local anthropogenic activi...
There are meteorological situations when huge amounts of Saharan dust are transported from Africa to Europe. These natural dust events may have a significant impact on particulate matter concentrations at monitoring sites. This phenomenon affects mai...
This paper examines aerosol propagation in wind instruments through numerical analysis, focusing on particle trajectories within five types of wind instruments: saxophone, clarinet, flute, oboe, and trumpet. Using a computational fluid dynamics appro...
Because PM2.5 concentrations are not regularly monitored in Mbarara, Uganda, this study was implemented to test whether correlations exist between weather parameters and PM2.5 concentration, which could then be used to estimate PM2.5 concentrations....
This study assesses the performance of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) reanalysis dataset in estimating ground-level concentrations (GLCs) of aerosols and criteria pollutants across the Himawari-8 observational area, covering Chin...
Biomass burning is one of the largest sources of particulate matter emissions globally. However, the emission of particulate inorganic species from prescribed grassland burning in Japan has not yet been characterized. In this study, we collected tota...
Sidewalk cleaning operations are essential to maintaining a clean and safe urban environment. Despite their vital role, these activities, particularly the blowing of road dust, can lead to the resuspension of road dust and associated pollutants, whic...
For the current article, forty-two fogwater samples are collected at four sites in Alsace (Strasbourg, Geispolsheim, Erstein, and Cronenbourg) between 2015 and 2021, except 2019 and 2020. Spatio-temporal evolution is studied for their inorganic fract...
Regulatory air pollution monitoring is performed using a sparse monitoring network designed to provide background concentrations of pollutants but may miss small area variations due to local emission sources. Low-cost air pollution sensors operated b...
To study air pollution in the North China Plain (NCP), the Air Chemistry Research in Asia (ARIAs) campaign conducted airborne measurements of air pollutants in spring 2016. High pollutant concentrations, with O3 > 100 ppbv, CO > 500 ppbv, and N...
This study aims to determine the optimal frequency for monitoring airborne pollutants in densely populated urban areas to effectively capture their temporal variations. While environmental organizations worldwide typically update air quality data hou...
It is well known that carbonyl compounds play an important role in air pollution and the formation of secondary pollutants, such as peroxyacetyl nitrates (PAN). Additionally, airborne carbonyls have been described as cytotoxic, mutagenic and carcinog...
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