The quantitative assessment of the public excess disease burden advanced by inhalable particulate matter under different air quality standard targets in Tianjin, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 6931-6938
Author(s):  
Qiang Zeng ◽  
Yang Ni ◽  
Guoxing Li ◽  
Dezheng Wang ◽  
Pei Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
The Public ◽  
Inhalable Particulate Matter

scholarly journals Evidence on the Impact of Winter Heating Policy on Air Pollution and Its Dynamic Changes in North China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shulin Wang ◽  
Yongtao Li ◽  
Mahfuzul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Impact

Environmental pollution, especially air pollution, is an alarming issue for the public, which is extensively debated among academic scholars. During the winter heating season, “smog” has become somewhat a normal phenomenon to local residents’ livelihood in northern China. Based on the daily air pollution data of regional cities in China from 2014 to 2016, and using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), the study finds that winter heating makes the air quality worse in the northern part of China. With the start of the winter heating, it increases the Air Quality Index (AQI) by 10.4%, particulate matter smaller than 10 μm (PM10) by 9.77%, particulate matter smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) by 17.25%, CO by 9.84%, NO2 by 5.23%, and SO2 by 17.1%. Furthermore, dynamic changes demonstrate that air quality has gradually improved due to a series of heating policy changes implemented by the central government in recent years. Specifically, from 2014 to 2016, major indicators measuring the air pollution decrease dramatically, such as AQI by 92.36%, PM10 by 91.24%, PM2.5 by 84.06%, CO by 70.97%, NO2 by 52.76%, and SO2 by 17.15%.

scholarly journals Oral bioaccessibility tests to measure potentially toxic elements in inhalable particulate matter collected during routine air quality monitoring

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (27) ◽  
pp. 5466-5474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jawad Ali Hussein Alpofead ◽  
Christine M. Davidson ◽  
David Littlejohn
Keyword(s):  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Toxic Elements ◽  
Potentially Toxic Elements ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Air Quality Monitoring ◽  
Oral Bioaccessibility ◽  
Extraction Test ◽  
Inhalable Particulate Matter

The simplified bioaccessibility extraction test (SBET) and the stomach phase of the unified bioaccessibility method (UBM) have been modified for use in assessing the bioaccessibility of potentially toxic elements in samples of PM10 collected during routine air quality monitoring.

scholarly journals Optimizing the combustion processes of a small scale solid fuel-fired boiler

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-369
Author(s):  
Dóra Mentes ◽  
Zoltán Sajti ◽  
Tamás László Koós ◽  
Csaba Póliska
Keyword(s):  
Particulate Matter ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Solid Fuel ◽  
Fuel Combustion ◽  
Air Pollutant ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Public ◽  
Particulate Matter Emissions ◽  
Solid Fuel Combustion

Over the last decade, the public has been paying increasing attention to reducing greenhouse gas and acid rain emissions and reducing particulate matter, which is extremely harmful to health and the environment. To improve air quality, the European Commission has achieved a range of measures to reduce air pollutant emissions in the transport, heat and electricity, industrial and agricultural sectors. In Hungary, the amount of gas and solid air pollutants from solid fuel combustion used by the public during the heating season represents a significant percentage of the total amount present in the atmosphere. In 2016, taking into the total emission, the 29% of CO2 emissions; 85% of CO emissions; 75% of the particulate matter emissions and 21% of the NOx emissions were derived from households. It follows that the improvement of air quality can also be achieved by controlling the emissions of solid fuel combustion plants. During our research we aimed to optimize the operation of a newly purchased TOTYA S18 boiler and a pilot pellet boiler. Operating the boilers in the correct mode minimizes air pollutant emissions, and the greater part of the heat generated is actually turns to heating the home, as with poor settings, a lot of heat leaves through the chimney. The data obtained during the tests can also be used to determine whether the boilers comply with the emission values set out in Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1185.

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