Ethanol fuel use in Brazil: air quality impacts

LG Anderson - Energy & Environmental Science, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Brazil has a long history in the development of ethanol for use as a liquid fuel for vehicles.
They have developed one of most efficient and economical systems for producing ethanol in …

Premixed ignition behavior of alternative diesel fuel-relevant compounds in a motored engine experiment

JP Szybist, AL Boehman, DC Haworth, H Koga - Combustion and Flame, 2007 - Elsevier
A motored engine study using premixed charges of fuel and air at a wide range of diesel-
relevant equivalence ratios was performed to investigate autoignition differences among …

Determination of airborne carbonyls: Comparison of a thermal desorption/GC method with the standard DNPH/HPLC method

SSH Ho, JZ Yu - Environmental science & technology, 2004 - ACS Publications
The standard method for the determination of gaseous carbonyls is to collect carbonyls onto
2, 4-dinitrophenyl hydrazine (DNPH) coated solid sorbent followed by solvent extraction of …

Mixing ratios of carbonyls and BTEX in ambient air of Kolkata, India and their associated health risk

C Dutta, D Som, A Chatterjee, AK Mukherjee… - Environmental …, 2009 - Springer
Mixing ratios of 15 carbonyls and BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylenes) were
measured for the first time in ambient air of Kolkata, India at three sites from March to June …

Wet deposition and related atmospheric chemistry in the São Paulo metropolis, Brazil: Part 2—contribution of formic and acetic acids

A Fornaro, IGR Gutz - Atmospheric Environment, 2003 - Elsevier
Wet-only deposition samples were collected at a site in the urban area of the São Paulo
metropolis between February (end of the rainy summer) and October (beginning of spring) …

Measurements of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in airborne particles from the metropolitan area of São Paulo City, Brazil

PC Vasconcellos, D Zacarias, MAF Pires… - Atmospheric …, 2003 - Elsevier
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from phenanthrene to benzo [g, h, i] perylene in
airborne particles were measured in the winter of 2000 at three different sites within the …

Emission factors for gas-powered vehicles traveling through road tunnels in São Paulo, Brazil

LD Martins, MF Andrade, ED Freitas… - … science & technology, 2006 - ACS Publications
The objective of this study was to improve the vehicular emissions inventory for the light-and
heavy-duty fleet in the metropolitan area of São Paulo (MASP), Brazil. To that end, we …

Composition of PM2. 5 and PM10 collected at urban sites in Brazil

DZ Souza, PC Vasconcellos, H Lee, M Aurela… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2014 - aaqr.org
ABSTRACTAtmospheric particulate matter samples (PM2. 5 and PM10) were collected at
urban sites (São Paulo, SPA; Piracicaba, PRB) in São Paulo State, Brazil. In order to …

Indoor and outdoor carbonyl compounds in the hotel ballrooms in Guangzhou, China

Y Feng, S Wen, X Wang, G Sheng, Q He, J Tang… - Atmospheric …, 2004 - Elsevier
Twenty-one carbonyl compounds were measured simultaneously at four hotel ballrooms in
urban Guangzhou during the autumn, 2002. In each ballroom, measurements were carried …

Determination of anthropogenic and biogenic compounds on atmospheric aerosol collected in urban, biomass burning and forest areas in São Paulo, Brazil

PC Vasconcellos, DZ Souza, O Sanchez-Ccoyllo… - Science of the Total …, 2010 - Elsevier
This study was conducted at three sites of different characteristics in São Paulo State: São
Paulo (SPA), Piracicaba (PRB) and Mata Atlântica Forest (MAT). PM10, n-alkanes, pristane …