Particulate emissions from biodiesel vs diesel fuelled compression ignition engine

AK Agarwal, T Gupta, A Kothari - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
Studies conducted over the last decade have well established a direct relationship between
deteriorating human health and diesel engine exhaust. Biodiesel has shown a lot of promise …

Associations of fine and ultrafine particulate air pollution with stroke mortality in an area of low air pollution levels

J Kettunen, T Lanki, P Tiittanen, PP Aalto, T Koskentalo… - Stroke, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Daily variation in outdoor concentrations of inhalable particles
(PM10< 10 μm in diameter) has been associated with fatal and nonfatal stroke. Toxicological …

Particle concentrations in inner-city homes of children with asthma: the effect of smoking, cooking, and outdoor pollution.

LA Wallace, H Mitchell, GT O'Connor… - Environmental …, 2003 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Inner-city children have high rates of asthma. Exposures to particles, including allergens,
may cause or exacerbate asthma symptoms. As part of an epidemiologic study of inner-city …

Experimental investigation and detailed modeling of soot aggregate formation and size distribution in laminar coflow diffusion flames of Jet A-1, a synthetic kerosene …

M Saffaripour, A Veshkini, M Kholghy… - Combustion and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A fully-coupled soot formation model is developed to predict the concentration, size, and
aggregate structure of soot particles in the atmospheric pressure laminar coflow diffusion …

Health risk assessment of urban suspended particulate matter with special reference to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a review

AK Mittal, R Van Grieken - Reviews on environmental health, 2001 - degruyter.com
Airborne suspended particulate matter is an important marker of air quality. The
term'particulates' includes organic and inorganic matter, nitrogen compounds, sulphur …

Health effects of low emission zones: evidence from German hospitals

N Pestel, F Wozny - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper studies the impact of Low Emission Zones, restricting the access of high-
emission vehicles to inner-city areas, on hospitalizations. For identification, we exploit …

Implications of climate change for children in developing countries

R Hanna, P Oliva - The Future of Children, 2016 - JSTOR
Climate change may be particularly dangerous for children in developing countries. Even
today, many developing countries experience a disproportionate share of extreme weather …

Traffic‐related air pollution and lung cancer: A meta‐analysis

G Chen, X Wan, G Yang, X Zou - Thoracic cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background We conducted a meta‐analysis to evaluate the association between traffic‐
related air pollution and lung cancer in order to provide evidence for control of traffic‐related …

Evaluation of a regional air-quality model with bidirectional NH3 exchange coupled to an agroecosystem model

JO Bash, EJ Cooter, RL Dennis, JT Walker… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
Atmospheric ammonia (NH 3) is the primary atmospheric base and an important precursor
for inorganic particulate matter and when deposited NH 3 contributes to surface water …

Chemical characterization of PM1.0 aerosol in Delhi and source apportionment using positive matrix factorization

Jaiprakash, A Singhai, G Habib, RS Raman… - … Science and Pollution …, 2017 - Springer
Fine aerosol fraction (particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter<= 1.0 μm (PM) 1.0) over
the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi campus was monitored day and night (10 h each) at …