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Thiago Nogueira, Pamela A. Dominutti, Adalgiza Fornaro and Maria De Fatima Andrade
The Metropolitan Area of São Paulo (MASP) is the largest megacity in South America, with 21 million inhabitants and more than 8 million vehicles. Those vehicles run on a complex fuel mix, with ethanol accounting for nearly 50% of all fuel sold. That has ...
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Santino Orecchio, Michele Fiore, Salvatore Barreca and Gabriele Vara
The objective of present study was to identify volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from several sources (fuels, traffic, landfills, coffee roasting, a street-food laboratory, building work, indoor use of incense and candles, a dental laboratory, et...
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Lexuan Zhong, Feng-Chiao Su and Stuart Batterman
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Ioannis Sakellaris, Giannis Papadopoulos, Dikaia Saraga, Thalia Xenofontos, Evangelos Tolis, Giorgos Panaras and John Bartzis
This study investigated the indoor environment quality (IEQ) of eight office buildings of interest due to: (a) their location at the region of Western Macedonia, Greece, which is an area characterized by aggravated air quality and is currently in a trans...
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Vadim Fetisov, Vladimir Pshenin, Dmitrii Nagornov, Yuri Lykov and Amir H. Mohammadi
Emissions of volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere when loading oil or petroleum products into tankers are strong environmental pollutants. Given the increase in oil transport by sea and the development of Arctic routes, humanity faces the task ...
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Elise Bertheau, Valérie Simon and Christine Delgado Raynaud
Wood-based panels are ubiquitous in our daily lives, both as building materials and as furnishing materials. Numerous studies have revealed that these materials emit volatile organic compounds, such as formaldehyde, into indoor air, which can be harmful ...
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Longjiao Shen, Ping Xiang, Shengwen Liang, Wentai Chen, Ming Wang, Sihua Lu and Zuwu Wang
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Wen-Tien Tsai
In the past decades, hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), so-called air toxics or toxic air pollutants, have been detected in the atmospheric air at low concentration levels, causing public concern about the adverse effect of long-term exposure to HAPs on hu...
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Chuloh Jung and Jihad Awad
Due to unprecedented urbanization, UAE had built many new residential projects with poor choices of material and ventilation. This social phenomenon is leading UAE to Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) faster than any other countries. The Dubai Municipality re...
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Bartosz Szulczynski and Jacek Gebicki
The paper presents principle of operation and design of the most popular chemical sensors for measurement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in outdoor and indoor air. It describes the sensors for evaluation of explosion risk including pellistors and I...
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Bartosz Piechowicz, Aleksandra Kwiatek, Stanislaw Sadlo, Lech Zareba, Anna Koziorowska, Daniela Kloc and Maciej Balawejder
Paenibacillus larvae is a deadly pathogen for bee brood, which can lead to the death of entire colonies. The presence of specific volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the hive may be related to the occurrence of this bacterium in brood. Compositions of t...
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Jingjin Yang, Genyi Wu, Caihong Jiang, Wenqi Long and Wangrong Liu
In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that might lead to serious environmental problems, yet few studies relate to the insecticide application during agricultural process. As there appears to be a ...
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Wen-Hsi Cheng and Chung-Shin Yuan
A micro needle trap sampler (NTS) was carried by a mini quadrotor drone (Mavic Pro, DJI) to collect volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from industries. The NTS was fabricated using a 7 cm long, 22-gauge stainless steel needle by packing powdered divinylbe...
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Seyyed Abbas Noorian Najafabadi, Soma Sugano and Philomena M. Bluyssen
Interest in having a healthy and well-being environment has increased the awareness to improve indoor air quality (IAQ). Building materials influence the contribution of indoor air pollution, so understanding their behaviour on IAQ is essential. Among bu...
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Andreas Schütze, Tobias Baur, Martin Leidinger, Wolfhard Reimringer, Ralf Jung, Thorsten Conrad and Tilman Sauerwald
Monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is of increasing importance in many application fields such as environmental monitoring, indoor air quality, industrial safety, fire detection, and health applications. The challenges in all of these applic...
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JENNIFER SANDRA GARCÍA-ESCALANTE,JOSÉ AGUSTÍN GARCÍA-REYNOSO,ARÓN JAZCILEVICH-DIAMANT,LUIS GERARDO RUIZ-SUÁREZ
Using an air quality model, this study shows how emissions from the ?Miguel Hidalgo? refinery of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the thermoelectric plant ?Francisco Pérez Ríos? of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE, Federal Electricity Commission)...
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Nina Kunc, Metka Hudina, Gregor Osterc and Mariana Cecilia Grohar
The aim of our study was to determine how the content and composition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) change with crossbreeding. We included three autochthonous Slovenian species of roses (R. pendulina, R. spinosissima, and R. gallica) and several c...
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Eirini Anastasaki, Aikaterini Psoma, Savvina Toufexi, Georgios Partsinevelos, Dimitrios Papachristos, Dimitrios Avtzis and Panagiotis Milonas
Curculio elephas is an oligophagous insect, attacking fruits of chestnut (Castanea spp.) and oak (Quercus spp.). It is considered one of the most important pests of European chestnut (Castanea sativa) in Europe and it occurs in a continuous range through...
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Efdal Yalçin,Lokman Hakan Tecer,Sema Yurdakul,Gürdal Tuncel
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The assessment of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has become an important field of interest in atmospheric pollution. This study quantifies and characterizes the ambient levels and spatial distribution of VOCs in urban and rural areas of Balikesir city...
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Ho-Seok Kwak, Jung-Yeol Han, Gideon Koren, Sang-Hee Jo and Ki-Hyun Kim
The health risks of cigarette smoking have been reported to increase continuously, while it is estimated to be responsible for the death toll of more than seven million people globally each year. In an effort to reduce the risk involved in cigarette smok...
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