Books in Air pollution

Air Quality Monitoring and Management Using Sensors

1st Edition
Volume 9
October 1, 2025
Amit Awasthi + 4 more
English

Air Quality Monitoring and Management Using Sensors presents the latest advancements in air pollution monitoring technologies, sensor innovations, data analysis, and applications. The editors introduce the needs, challenges, and depth of air pollution monitoring and management. Topics include calibration, validation, and recent advances in sensor technologies. Chapters address the use of portable and wearable sensors for personal exposure monitoring, indoor air quality monitoring, and remote sensing techniques. Additionally, the editors explore the integration of smart sensor networks, IoT applications, and data analysis tools in addressing air pollution challenges. There is an examination of the role of air pollution sensors in smart cities and urban planning, discussing real-time monitoring challenges and solutions. Various sensor applications for detecting air pollutants such as nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter are included along with emission control technologies and the development of detection systems for various pollutants including sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide.Air Quality Monitoring and Management Using Sensors looks into future trends in air pollution sensor development and provides case studies showcasing the successful implementation of these sensors in environmental monitoring and remediation efforts. This much needed resource will prepare readers for the latest challenges in air quality management and air pollution remediation.

New Perspectives in Indoor Air Quality

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Pasquale Avino + 2 more
English

New Perspectives in Indoor Air Quality provides readers with the latest scientific discoveries related to indoor air quality. After an in-depth introduction to indoor air quality and review of current air quality legislation, the book's chapters explore gaseous pollutants, particulate matter, ultrafine particles, and emerging contaminants. This is followed by analysis of formaldehyde emissions, VOCs, SVOCs, nanomaterials emissions, and combustion sources. From an assessment perspective, chapters include sampling approaches, traditional measuring instruments, automatic measuring instruments, assessment of bioaerosols, and geospatial analysis and modeling.Finally, the editors address the health effects of poor indoor air quality and examine how climate change has contributed to these issues. Fifteen detailed case studies round out the book to provide practical, real world understanding of the concepts covered throughout the preceding chapters.

Air Quality

1st Edition
November 29, 2024
Ranjeet S. Sokhi
English
eBook
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Air Quality: Science, Impacts, and Management provides a thorough treatment of the fundamental science of air quality, its interactions, its impacts on health and the environment and management strategies for reducing air pollution in cities, regionally and globally. It begins with fundamentals of the atmosphere and its relevance for air quality before moving logically to sources and emissions, chemical transformation, dynamics, prediction, observations and analysis methods. The importance of regional air pollution and interactions with climate demonstrate the multiscale nature of air quality. The book concludes by examining the impacts on ecosystems and health, reviewing the strategies to manage air pollution and highlighting real-world challenges and possible solutions to improve air quality in global cities. The chapters, written by Ranjeet Sokhi with the collaboration of international experts in the field, are designed to be read sequentially or independently for focused learning in this complex and interdisciplinary field. Air Quality: Science, Impacts, and Management is an excellent resource for students, researchers and professionals in the field of Air Quality and related sciences.

Volatile Organic Compound Removal

1st Edition
August 22, 2024
Hongqiang Ren + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Volatile Organic Compound Removal: Technologies and Functional Materials for VOC Removal details technologies and materials for the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from polluted air, covering not only the fundamental mechanisms, processes, and designs of the latest VOC abatement technologies, but also the characteristics and applications of advanced functional materials for VOC removal. The first half of this book centers on VOC abatement technologies including catalytic degradation, thermal oxidation, membrane separation, adsorption, absorption, and condensation, whereas the second half focuses on the applications of functional materials, especially novel nanomaterials, in VOC removal.Volatile Organic Compound Removal: Technologies and Functional Materials for VOC Removal is unique in covering both the fundamental mechanisms and practical applications of VOC abatement technologies, as well as focusing on the preparation, characterization, and application of novel functional materials for VOC removal.

Asian Atmospheric Pollution

1st Edition
August 31, 2021
Ramesh P. Singh
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Asian Atmospheric Pollution: Sources, Characteristics and Impacts provides a concise yet comprehensive treatment of all aspects of pollution and air quality monitoring, across all of Asia. It focuses on key regions of the world and details a variety of sources, their transport mechanism, long term variability and impacts on climate at local and regional scales. It also discusses the feedback on pollutants, on different meteorological parameters like radiative forcing, fog formations, precipitation, cloud characteristics and more. Drawing upon the expertise of multiple well-known authors from different countries to underline some of these key issues, it includes sections dedicated to treatment of pollutant sources, studying of pollutants and trace gases using satellite/station based observations and models, transport mechanisms, seasonal and inter-annual variability and impact on climate, health and biosphere in general. Asian Atmospheric Pollution: Sources, Characteristics and Impacts is a useful resource for scientists and students to understand the sources and dynamics of atmospheric pollution as well as their transport from one continent to other continents, helping the atmospheric modelling community to model different scenarios of the pollution, gauge its short term and long term impacts across regional to global scales and better understand the ramifications of episodic events.

Advances in Carbon Capture

1st Edition
August 4, 2020
Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Advances in Carbon Capture reviews major implementations of CO2 capture, including absorption, adsorption, permeation and biological techniques. For each approach, key benefits and drawbacks of separation methods and technologies, perspectives on CO2 reuse and conversion, and pathways for future CO2 capture research are explored in depth. The work presents a comprehensive comparison of capture technologies. In addition, the alternatives for CO2 separation from various feeds are investigated based on process economics, flexibility, industrial aspects, purification level and environmental viewpoints.

Atmospheric Impacts of the Oil and Gas Industry

1st Edition
November 22, 2016
Eduardo P Olaguer
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Atmospheric Impacts of the Oil and Gas Industry provides the most up-to-date scientific and technological methods available to quantify oil and gas industry emissions and atmospheric impacts in a manner that is relevant to the development of, compliance with, and enforcement of effective policy and regulations. The book offers a concise survey of these methods to facilitate the implementation of solutions that promote sustainable energy production. Part I covers a technical and descriptive summary of air quality and global change issues relevant to the oil and gas industry, with Part II summarizing state-of-the-art methods pertaining to the analysis and solution of the problems identified in the earlier section. Examples of state-of-the-art methods covered include real-time monitoring with chemical ionization mass spectrometry, drone-mounted mini-lasers and gas cells, tomographic remote sensing, inverse modeling of emissions, 3D fluid, chemical, and transport models, and contemporary control technologies, such as flare minimization, oxidation catalysts, and vapor recovery. In addition, field studies, policy-relevant modeling assessments, and regulatory decisions from multiple geographic regions are presented, providing readers best practices from real world applications.

The Quality of Air

1st Edition
Volume 73
July 26, 2016
Miguel de la Guardia + 1 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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The Quality of Air discusses the topic from both the environmental and human health points-of-view. As today's policymakers, academic, government, industrial researchers, and the general public are all concerned about air pollution in both indoor and outdoor scenarios, this book presents the advances in the analytical tools available for air quality control within social, political, and legal frameworks. With its multi-author approach, there is a wide range of expertise in tackling the topic.

Monitoring of Air Pollutants

1st Edition
Volume 70
November 26, 2015
Patricia Forbes
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Monitoring of Air Pollutants: Sampling, Sample Preparation and Analytical Techniques provides a comprehensive reference on air pollutant monitoring, addressing experimental approaches to sampling and sample preparation, as well as analytical technologies (instrumental methods) which are applicable to a wide range of topics. The book's purpose is to provide an in-depth resource on the monitoring of ambient air pollutants that covers the basic principles, recent developments, and important applications in the field. Current trends and recent advances are discussed, both with respect to analytical techniques and target air pollutants. All aspects of air pollutant monitoring, from sampling, to sample preparation, and analysis, are covered, making this the book of choice for consultation by air monitoring practitioners.

Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits

1st Edition
July 14, 2015
Kenneth Pye
English
eBook
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Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits explores the entrainment, dispersion, and deposition of aeolian dust and dust deposits, with emphasis on transport and deposition of dust derived by deflation of surface sediments and soils. Topics covered range from the mechanisms of fine-particle formation to dust sources, sinks, and rates of deposition. Dust-transporting wind systems are also discussed, along with the grain size, mineralogy, and chemical composition of aeolian dust. Comprised of nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of the general nature and significance of windborne dust as well as the importance of aeolian dust and loess. The next chapter deals with the mechanisms underlying the formation of fine particles, including glacial grinding, frost and salt weathering, and fluvial comminution. The reader is then introduced to dust entrainment, transport, and deposition, together with dust sources, sinks, and rates of deposition. Subsequent chapters focus on the implications of dust deflation, transport, and deposition; dust deposition in the oceans; and loess distribution and the thickness and morphology of loess deposits. This monograph is written primarily for research workers and advanced students in sedimentology, geomorphology, and Quaternary studies, but is also likely to be of value to soil scientists, meteorologists, planetary geologists, engineers, and others concerned with environmental management.

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