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Sources Influencing Air Pollution and Their Control
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Sources Influencing Air Pollution and Their Control

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 688

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Dana-Adriana ILUŢIU-VARVARA

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Faculty of Building Services Engineering, Department Building Services Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 28 Memorandumului Street, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: environmental engineering; sustainable development; environmental quality; indoor air quality (IAQ); outdoor air quality (OAQ); quality of industrial microclimate; industrial wastes; industrial pollution of environmental factors; circular economy; life cycle analysis; waste recycling; hazardous wastes; applied chemistry; sustainable buildings; materials for building services engineering; materials for sustainable buildings; materials science and engineering; new materials with special properties; advanced materials
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College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests: atmospheric environment; environmental geochemistry; mineralogy; geo-health; coal geology
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Faculty of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 28 Memorandumului Street, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Dr. Ioana-Monica Sas-Boca

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Faculty of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 28 Memorandumului Street, 400114 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: mechanical testing; mechanical properties; plastic deformation processes; material characterization; microstructures; multi-layer materials; computer-aided design; computer-aided manufacturing; modeling and simulation; air pollution; environmental protection; recycling process
Dr. Wenhua Wang

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1. School of Resources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China
2. School of Resources and Materials, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Interests: air pollution control engineering; aerosol source apportionment; physicochemical characteristics of aerosol particles; morphology and optical characteristics of flue dust particles

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The continuous degradation of air quality is a current issue. Air pollution contributes to the decrease in the quality of life of the population and the environment. The identification of pollution sources and the control of air pollution contribute to the following:

  • minimization of negative impacts on natural and industrialized areas;
  • improvements in human health;
  • improvements in air quality.

This Special Issue aims to present a collection of original research articles and review papers describing the assessment of outdoor and indoor air quality; methods and solutions for the prevention, minimization and control of air pollution; assessment of industrial air pollution and its control; improvements in the management of air quality; impacts of air pollution on human health and the environment. Topics of particular interest to this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Air pollution;
  • Air pollutants;
  • Sources of air pollutants and their health effects;
  • Air quality monitoring;
  • Air pollution control;
  • Air pollution prevention;
  • The impact of air pollution;
  • Changing air environmental factors;
  • The dispersion of air pollutants;
  • Industrial pollution of air environmental factors;
  • Methods for minimizing air pollution;
  • Emissions and immissions;
  • Outdoor and indoor air quality;
  • Outdoor and indoor air pollution;
  • Sustainable development.

Dr. Dana-Adriana ILUŢIU-VARVARA
Prof. Dr. Longyi Shao
Dr. Tintelecan Marius
Dr. Ioana-Monica Sas-Boca
Dr. Wenhua Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • air pollution
  • outdoor and indoor air pollution
  • air pollution sources
  • control of air quality
  • impact on human health

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Physicochemical Characteristics of Individual Indoor Airborne Particles in the High Lung Cancer Rate Area in Xuanwei, China
by Ying Hu, Longyi Shao, Kelly BéruBé, Ningping Wang, Cong Hou, Jingsen Fan and Tim Jones
Atmosphere 2025, 16(2), 187; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16020187 - 6 Feb 2025
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Emissions from domestic coal burning are generally recognized as the cause of the lung cancer epidemic in Xuanwei City, Yunnan Province, China. To examine the physicochemical characteristics of airborne particles emitted from burning this locally sourced coal, PM2.5 samples were collected from [...] Read more.
Emissions from domestic coal burning are generally recognized as the cause of the lung cancer epidemic in Xuanwei City, Yunnan Province, China. To examine the physicochemical characteristics of airborne particles emitted from burning this locally sourced coal, PM2.5 samples were collected from Hutou village which has high levels of lung cancer, and Xize village located approximately 30 km from Hutou without lung cancer cases. Transmission Electron Microscopy-Energy Dispersive X-ray (TEM-EDX) analysis was employed to study the physiochemical features and chemistry of individual particles. Sulfur and silica are the most abundant elements found in the airborne particles in both of the two villages. Fewer elements in aerosol particles were found in Xize village compared with Hutou village. Based on the morphologies and chemical compositions, the particles in Xuanwei can be classified into five types including composite particles (38.6%); organic, soot, tar balls, and biologicals (28.3%); sulfate (14.1%); fly ash (9.8%); and minerals (9.2%). The particles in Hutou village are abundant in the size range of 0.4–0.8 μm while that in Xize is 0.7–0.8 μm. Composite particles are the most common types in all the size ranges. The percentage of composite particles shows two peaks in the small size range (0.1–0.2 μm) and the large size ranges (2–2.3 μm) in Hutou village while that shows an even distribution in all size ranges in Xize village. Core-shell particles are typical types of composite particles, with the solid ‘core’ consisting of materials such as fly ash or mineral grains, and the shell or surface layer being an adhering soluble compound such as sulfates or organics. The heterogeneous reactions of particles with acidic liquid layers produce the core-shell structures. Typically, the equivalent diameter of the core-shell particles is in the range of 0.5–2.5 μm, averaging 1.6 μm, and the core-shell ratio is usually between 0.4 and 0.8, with an average of 0.6. Regardless of the sizes of the particles, the relatively high core-shell ratios imply a less aging state, which suggests that the core-shell particles were relatively recently formed. Once the coal-burning particles are inhaled into the human deep lung, they can cause damage to lung cells and harm to human health. Full article
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