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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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Vikash Kumar, Nikhil Raghuvanshi, Abhay K. Pandey, Abhishek Kumar, Emily Thoday-Kennedy and Surya Kant
Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic constraints in agricultural ecosystems worldwide. High salinity levels have negative impacts on plant growth and yield, and affect soil physicochemical properties. Salinity also has adverse effects on the distrib...
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Liu Liu, Guisheng Qiu, Huaijiang Zhang, Qiang Yue, Wentao Yan and Lina Sun
The peach fruit moth, Carposina sasakii, is part of the Carposinidae, and is harmful to the families Rosaceae and Rhamnaceae. C. sasakii lays eggs on the hairy surface of the fruit?s stalk cavity and calyx end. After hatching, the moth can bore into the ...
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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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Eduardo González María, Antonio Madueño Luna, Agustín Conesa Celdrán, Gemma Martínez Muñoz, Martin John Oates and Antonio Ruiz-Canales
In this article a case study of characterisation of type of honey based on floral origin is presented. It is intended to discriminate Iberian honeys from local beekeepers located in the Community of Madrid (Spain), by means of a low-cost electronic nose ...
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Hyuntae Kim, Taewoo Kim and Sihwan Lee
This study investigated the pollution caused by unregulated chemical substances in Korean residential environments. A TA tube was used for indoor air collection, and Gas Chromatography?Mass Spectrometry was used for the analysis of chemical substances. 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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Govind S. Thakor, Ning Zhang and Rafael M. Santos
Monitoring volatile organic compounds (VOCs) places a crucial role in environmental pollutants control and indoor air quality. In this study, a metal-oxide (MOx) sensor detector (used in a commercially available monitor) was employed to delineate the com...
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Songyan Zhu, Xiaoying Li, Chao Yu, Hongmei Wang, Yapeng Wang and Jing Miao
The widespread distribution and strong seasonal pattern of highly concentrated summertime formaldehyde (HCHO) were observed using data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard Aura satellite from 2005 to 2015 in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, China. Th...
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Satoru Chatani, Motonori Okumura, Hikari Shimadera, Kazuyo Yamaji, Kyo Kitayama and Sou N. Matsunaga
Regional air quality simulations provide powerful tools for clarifying mechanisms of heavy air pollution and for considering effective strategies for better air quality. This study introduces a new vegetation database for Japan, which could provide input...
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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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Birte Mull, Lennart Möhlmann and Olaf Wilke
Photocatalysis is a promising technique to reduce volatile organic compounds indoors. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a frequently-used UV active photocatalyst. Because of the lack of UV light indoors, TiO2 has to be modified to get its ...
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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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C. Bambang Dwi Kuncoro, Moch Bilal Zaenal Asyikin and Aurelia Amaris
Several studies reported the significant effect of indoor air quality on human health, safety, productivity, and comfort because most humans usually conduct 80%?90% of their activity inside the building. This is generally due to the fact that indoor poll...
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Lucia De Luca, Alessandra Aiello, Fabiana Pizzolongo, Giuseppe Blaiotta, Maria Aponte and Raffaele Romano
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Yonhara García-Martínez, Judith Chirinos, Christophe Bengoa, Frank Stüber, Josep Font, Agustí Fortuny and Azael Fabregat
The present work explores the biodegradation of some emerging pollutants (EPs) in an anaerobic slowly-agitated up-flow packed-bed reactor (USPBR) filled with biological activated carbon (BAC). Chlorobenzene (CB) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)...
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Yonhara García-Martínez, Judith Chirinos, Christophe Bengoa, Frank Stüber, Josep Font, Agustí Fortuny and Azael Fabregat
The present work explores the biodegradation of some emerging pollutants (EPs) in an anaerobic slowly-agitated up-flow packed-bed reactor (USPBR) filled with biological activated carbon (BAC). Chlorobenzene (CB) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)...
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Yonhara García-Martínez, Judith Chirinos, Christophe Bengoa, Frank Stüber, Josep Font, Agustí Fortuny and Azael Fabregat
The present work explores the biodegradation of some emerging pollutants (EPs) in an anaerobic slowly-agitated up-flow packed-bed reactor (USPBR) filled with biological activated carbon (BAC). Chlorobenzene (CB) and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)...
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Lexuan Zhong, Feng-Chiao Su and Stuart Batterman
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S. Mohan,R Ethirajan
The results of VOC monitoring in a residential area abutting a petrochemical complex and theinfluence of causative parameters on the concentration is discussed in this paper. The monitored datareveals that about 21 hazardous VOC are predominantly present...
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