Air pollution aerosols

Keywords Crop residue burning, air pollution, aerosols... 

The University of Iasi participates in the user groups of the EUROCHAMP infrastructure with the following fields of excellence Mechanistic and kinetic indoor and outdoor photo-reactor studies in the gas-phase Studies on the aerosol formation under simulated atmospheric condition using several reactions chamber facilities Monitoring of air pollutants, aerosols. 

Atmospheric sciences includes the fields of physics and chemistry and the study of the composition and dynamics of the layers of air that constitute the atmosphere. Related topics include climatic processes, circulation patterns, chemical and particulate deposition, greenhouse gases, oceanic temperatures, interaction between the atmosphere and the ocean, the ozone layer, precipitation patterns and amounts, climate change, air pollution, aerosol composition, atmospheric chemistry, modeling of pollutants both indoors and outdoors, and anthropogenic alteration of land surfaces that in turn affect conditions within the ever-changing atmosphere. 

Chi, M. Li, C. Fluorochrome in monitoring atmospheric bioaerosols and correlations with meteorological factors and air pollutants. Aerosol Sci. Technol. 2007, 41, 672-678. 

In the last several years a great deal has been learned about air pollution aerosols (68-71). Although our knowledge is still far from complete, there is general agreement on the nature of urban aerosol size distributions and their interpretation (TO) ... 

Aerosol Dynamics. Inclusion of a description of aerosol dynamics within air quaUty models is of primary importance because of the health effects associated with fine particles in the atmosphere, visibiUty deterioration, and the acid deposition problem. Aerosol dynamics differ markedly from gaseous pollutant dynamics in that particles come in a continuous distribution of sizes and can coagulate, evaporate, grow in size by condensation, be formed by nucleation, or be deposited by sedimentation. Furthermore, the species mass concentration alone does not fliUy characterize the aerosol. The particle size distribution, which changes as a function of time, and size-dependent composition determine the fate of particulate air pollutants and their... 

Materials The damage that air pollutants can do to some materials is well known ozone in photochemical smog cracks rubber, weakens fabrics, and fades dyes hydrogen sulfide tarnishes silver smoke dirties laundry acid aerosols ruin nylon hose. Among the most important effects are discoloration, corrosion, the soiling of goods, and impairment of visibility. 

Sufficient evidence is available to indicate that atmospheric pollution in vaiying degrees does affect health adversely. [Amdur, Melvin, and Drinker, Effec t of Inhalation of Sulfur Dioxide by Man, Lancet, 2, 758 (1953) Barton, Corn, Gee, VassaUo, and Thomas, Response of Healthy Men to Inhaled Low Concentrations of Gas-Aerosol Mixtures, Arch. Lnviron. Health, 18, 681 (1969) Bates, Bell, Burnham, Hazucha, and Mantha, Problems in Studies of Human Exposure to Air Pollutants, Can. Med. A.s.soc. J., 103, 833 (1970) Ciocco and... 

Possible role of the induced acidity and basicity in catalysis and environmental chemistry is discussed. The suggested mechanism explains the earlier reported promotive effect of some gases in the reactions catalyzed by Bronsted acid sites. Interaction between the weakly adsorbed air pollutants could lead to the enhancement of their uptake by aerosol particles as compared with separate adsoi ption, thus favoring air purification. 

The major effects of air pollution on fabrics are soiling and loss of tensile strength. Sulfur oxides are considered to cause the greatest loss of tensile strength. The most widely publicized example of this type of problem has been damage to women s nylon hose by air pollution, described in newspaper accounts. The mechanism is not understood, but it is postulated that fine droplets of sulfuric acid aerosol deposit on the very thin nylon... 

One of the methods of controlling air pollution mentioned in the previous chapter was pollution removal. For pollution removal to be accomplished, the polluted carrier gas must pass through a control device or system, which collects or destroys the pollutant and releases the cleaned carrier gas to the atmosphere. The control device or system selected must be specific for the pollutant of concern. If the pollutant is an aerosol, the device used will, in most cases, be different from the one used for a gaseous pollutant. If the aerosol is a dry solid, a different device must be used than for liquid droplets. 

Direct-flame afterburners are the most commonly used air pollution control device in which combustible aerosols, vapors, gases, and odors are to be controlled. The components of the afterburner are shown in Fig. 29-15. 

A nonprofit professional organization that promotes aerosol research in areas including industrial processes, air pollution, and industrial hygiene. Composed of scientists and engineers associated with universities, technical institutes, private firms, and government representatives. 

Pollutants have various atmospheric residence times, with reactive gases and large aerosols being rapidly removed from air. In the London air pollution episode of December 1952, the residence time for sulfur dioxide was estimated to be five hours daily emissions of an estimated 2,000 tons of sulfur dioxide were balanced by scavenging by fog droplets, which were rapidly deposited. Most relatively inert gases remain in the atmosphere for extended periods. Sulfur hexafluoride, used extensively in the electric power industiy as an insulator in power breakers because of its inertness, has an estimated atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. 

Experimentally measured dielectrophoretic augmentation factor DAF as a function of air speed and applied voltage for a glass-fiber filter (HP-100, Farr Co.). Cf Fielding, Thompson, Bogardus, and Clark, Dielectrophoretic Filtration of Solid and Liquid Aerosol Particulates, Prepr. 75-32.2, 68th ann. meet.. Air Pollut. Control Assoc., Boston, June 1975. 

Applications The main application fields of PIXE are earth science, air pollution studies (aerosol analysis), mineralogical studies, forensic science, arts and archaeology. In the external-beam PIXE technique, the proton beam is taken out to ambient air. This mode finds application in the analysis of art objects (paintings, books, etc.). 

OG Raabe. Aerosol aerodynamic size conventions for inertial sampler calibration. J Air Pollution Control Assoc 26 856-860, 1976. 

Aerosol production and transport over the oceans are of interest in studies concerning cloud physics, air pollution, atmospheric optics, and air-sea interactions. However, the contribution of sea spray droplets to the transfer of moisture and latent heat from the sea to the atmosphere is not well known. In an effort to investigate these phenomena, Edson et al.[12l used an interactive Eulerian-Lagrangian approach to simulate the generation, turbulent transport and evaporation of droplets. The k-e turbulence closure model was incorporated in the Eulerian-Lagrangian model to accurately simulate... 

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