[HTML][HTML] Status of brominated flame retardants, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in air and indoor dust in AFRICA: A review

OE Akinrinade, W Stubbings, MAE Abdallah… - Emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
While many African countries are signatories of the United Nations' Environment Programme
(UNEP) Stockholm Convention aimed at eradication or reduction of persistent organic …

A review of monitoring of airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: An African perspective

CF Munyeza, ER Rohwer, PBC Forbes - Trends in Environmental Analytical …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review, we focus on the status of the monitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) in ambient air as well as in living (indoor) and working environments in Africa from …

Concentrations of aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in ambient PM2.5 and PM10 particulates in Doha, Qatar

W Javed, M Iakovides, EG Stephanou… - Journal of the Air & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon (EC), and 90 organic compounds (36 polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs], 25 n-alkane homologues, 17 hopanes, and 12 steranes) …

Source apportionment of organic pollutants in fine and coarse atmospheric particles in Doha, Qatar

W Javed, M Iakovides, R Garaga… - Journal of the Air & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, we investigated the sources of organic pollutants associated with fine (PM2. 5)
and coarse (PM2. 5–10) atmospheric particulate matter in Doha, Qatar based on an eight …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phthalates, parabens and other environmental contaminants in dust and suspended particulates of Algiers, Algeria

L Rabhi, A Lemou, A Cecinato, C Balducci… - … Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
Chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phthalateesters, parabens,
siloxanes and squalene, all of them classified as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) …

Comparison of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon levels in three urban areas in Lebanon

R Baalbaki, J Nassar, S Salloum, AL Shihadeh… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Reports on the levels and sources of PAHs in the Middle Eastern region are
very scarce and mostly outdated. This study reports for the first time the ambient levels of …

Organic chemical characterization of size segregated particulate matter samples collected from a thermal power plant area

PE Ari, A Ari, Y Dumanoğlu, M Odabasi… - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Kütahya city, a thermal power plant (TPPs) affected region of Turkey, has serious air quality
problems like similar industrial regions of the world due to the emissions from three closely …

n-Alkanes and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Deposition Dust and PM10 of Interiors in Touggourt Region, Algeria

A Gheriani, A Boudehane, A Lounas… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
The occurrence of pollutants in environment displays its maximum impact on human health
and on the global “quality” of life in the places where humans spend most of their time, ie …

Analytical methods for determining organic compounds present in the particulate matter from outdoor air

A Maceira, RM Marcé, F Borrull - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Different analytical techniques can be used to chemically characterize the atmospheric
particulate matter, and to provide information about the concentration range, sources, fates …

Molecular signatures of organic particulates as tracers of emission sources

A Cecinato, A Bacaloni, P Romagnoli, M Perilli… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
Chemical signature of airborne particulates and deposition dusts is subject of study since
decades. Usually, three complementary composition markers are investigated, namely,(i) …