
Particulates Matter
Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants
- 1st Edition - November 28, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Vikram Rao, William Vizuete
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 9 0 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 9 0 5 - 6
A title in the Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry series, Particulates Matter: Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants provides the latest technical findin… Read more

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Request a sales quoteA title in the Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry series, Particulates Matter: Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants provides the latest technical findings in the study of particulate matter (PM). It links these findings to awareness-raising and actionable schemes for legislated remediation and engineered solutions. Written in an engaging and informative manner, the book begins with a multi-disciplinary overview of the major sources and unique classes of PM, detection techniques, and their impact, including molecular changes resulting in health effects. It then goes one step further by proposing and examining the means to curtail and contain PM generation and ameliorate their impacts.
Particulates Matter: Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants
offers a high-quality reference guide to PM that will greatly benefit technology leaders in environmental compliance groups, epidemiologists and other public health professionals focused on pollution and health, and researchers and scholars working in pollution, climate change, and urbanization. It may also be useful to advanced undergraduate and early graduate students in environmental sciences.- 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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: PM and ozone fundamentals
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Why particulates matter
- Abstract
- Early days: Recognition of the issue
- Progress of regulations
- Current state of the particulate matter problem
- Health effects
- Impact of elevated particulate matter on severe acute respiratory syndrome and Covid-19
- Transmigration of particulate matter
- Transmigration markers and climatic effects
- Chapter Two: Principal sources of PM
- Abstract
- Internal combustion engines
- Coal combustion
- Biomass combustion for cooking and heating
- Crop residue burning
- Dust storms
- Chapter Three: Ozone: Good high, bad nigh
- Abstract
- Formation and prevalence
- The distribution of atmospheric ozone
- Health effects
- Ozone and climate change
- Cannabis: A new player in ozone production
- Part Two: Impacts of differences in particle size
- Introduction
- Chapter Four: The importance of being small (with apologies to Oscar Wilde)
- Abstract
- Conventional particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5) and ultrafine
- How particulates form
- Particulates from coal combustion
- Particulates from use of fuel
- Ultrafine particles (nanomaterials)
- Bioaerosols
- Chapter Five: Health effects of airborne particulates
- Abstract
- Mechanisms of action on organs
- Morbidity and mortality
- Long-term systemic impacts
- Detection and estimation of episodic insults
- Pediatric effects of exposure
- Part Three: Detecting PM and in vitro techniques to measure health impact
- Introduction
- Chapter Six: Detection and evaluation of airborne particulates
- Abstract
- Gravimetric estimation
- Optical methods
- Counters based on nephelometry
- RTI MicroPEM version 3.2
- Measuring black carbon
- Size measurement
- Satellite monitoring
- Chapter Seven: Estimation of toxicity of airborne particulates
- Abstract
- In vitro and in vivo studies
- Filtrate resuspension exposure method
- Air-liquid interface exposure method
- A new commercial ALI device
- Toxicity of biomass-sourced particulates: A case study
- Part Four: Engineered interventions
- Introduction
- Chapter Eight: Wood fires: Domesticated
- Abstract
- Wood combustion basics
- Cookstove emissions
- Engineered interventions
- Economics of substitutes
- Chapter Nine: Wood fires: Wild
- Abstract
- Wildfire emissions
- General health effects
- Lung toxicity
- Causes of wildfires
- Chapter Ten: Reducing PM and NOx in diesel engine exhaust
- Abstract
- Diesel particulate filters
- Regeneration results in higher nanoparticle count
- Diesel oxidation catalyst
- NOx removal
- Exhaust gas recirculation
- Selective catalyst reduction
- Lean NOx trap
- Gasoline engines: Are they getting a free pass?
- Chapter Eleven: Alternative fuels
- Abstract
- Diesel substitutes
- Methanol and ethanol in gasoline
- Chapter Twelve: Electric vehicles: Transformational solution for low-PM transportation
- Abstract
- History of electric vehicles
- Hybrid electric vehicles
- All-electric vehicles
- Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
- Comparison of electric vehicles with fuel cell vehicles
- Chapter Thirteen: Clean coal and dirty solar panels
- Abstract
- Particulate matter casts a shadow on solar energy
- Is clean coal indeed an oxymoron?
- Part Five: Policy directions
- Introduction
- Chapter Fourteen: Research and policy directions
- Abstract
- Policy revision needed
- Household air pollution
- Policy for household air pollution reduction
- Short-term effects on health and behavior
- Regulating ultrafine particulate matter
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 28, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 288
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128169049
- eBook ISBN: 9780128169056
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