Aerosols in Residential, School, and Vehicle Environments

Dear Colleagues,

Aerosols or airborne particulate matters (PM), including airborne bacteria, pose a serious health threat to the population. With increasing air pollution caused by industry, transportation, and wildfires, as well as occasional outbreaks of respiratory infectious diseases such as SARS and COVID-19, aerosols have become increasingly important for a living environment. Since people are spending most of their time indoors, aerosols in built environments are paramount, especially for residential, school, and vehicle environments, where the aerosol composition and interaction are complex and the air change rate is likely to be insufficient. Taking the residential environment as an example, aerosols may come from the outdoor environment, and be generated indoors by human activities such as cooking, burning, talking, and coughing. Besides the health effect of the aerosols, methods for reducing aerosol concentrations have been proposed, including ventilation, mechanical filtration, electrostatic assistant filtration, and electrostatic precipitation. Furthermore, many aerosol-detecting methods have been applied to create a healthy living environment.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect research data 1) to clarify the profiles of aerosols in residential, school and vehicle environments; 2) to identify the improvements and limitations of applying multiple aerosol purification and detection methods in these environments. Both experimental and modeling studies are welcome. We seek a comprehensive set of studies that solicit up-to-date research from the above aspects. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Reviews of aerosol studies for residential/school/vehicle environments, including monitoring methods, emission profiles, physical-chemical-optical properties, and health impacts.
• Field characterization of aerosols and relevant properties in residential/school/vehicle environments, with or without improving methods.
• The relationship between indoor and outdoor aerosols for residential/school/vehicle environments.
• Laboratory/field/modelling studies on the aerosol purification/detection methods for residential/school/vehicle environments.
• Modeling studies that address the air quality and health impacts of aerosols in residential/school/vehicle environments.

Dr. Enze Tian
Prof. Dr. Alireza Afshari
Dr. Jinhan Mo
Guest Editors

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