
Particulates Matter
Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants
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Description
Key Features
- Includes a summary of the current knowledge on nanoparticles as pollutants and their negative health effects
- Provides a framework for the evolution and maturation of air pollution characterization and mitigation
- Describes an integrated set of engineered solutions that account for the concatenated relationships between technology, policy, and society necessary for long-term success
Readership
Table of Contents
Part I: PM and ozone fundamentals
Chapter 1. Why particulates matter
Chapter 2. Principal sources of PM
Chapter 3. Ozone: Good high, bad nighPart II: Impacts of differences in particle size
Chapter 4. The importance of being small
Chapter 5. Health effects of airborne particulatesPart III: Methods for measuring PM and estimating health effects
Chapter 6. Detection and evaluation of airborne particulates
Chapter 7. Estimation of toxicity of airborne particulatesPart IV: Engineered solutions for PM amelioration and elimination
Chapter 8. Wood fires: Domesticated
Chapter 9. Wood fires: Wild
Chapter 10. Reducing PM and NOx in diesel engine exhaust
Chapter 11. Alternative fuels
Chapter 12. Electric vehicles: Transformational solution for low-PM transportation
Chapter 13. Clean coal and dirty solar panelsPart V: Charting the future for research and policy
Chapter 14. Research and policy directions
Product details
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2020
- Published: November 28, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128169049
- eBook ISBN: 9780128169056
About the Authors
Vikram Rao
