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1. Fine-Grained Air Quality with Deep Air Learning

Author

Srivastava, Jyoti, Singh, Neha, Chakravorty, Rahul, Raj, Anu, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Das, Prodipto, editor, Begum, Shahin Ara, editor, and Buyya, Rajkumar, editor

Published
2024
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3. Answering Key Questions About Air Pollution Dynamics in Ho Chi Minh City: A Spatiotemporal Analysis Using the XAI-SHAP Clustering Approach

Author

Goktas, Polat, Rakholia, Rajnish, Carbajo, Ricardo S., Rannenberg, Kai, Editor-in-Chief, Soares Barbosa, Luís, Editorial Board Member, Carette, Jacques, Editorial Board Member, Tatnall, Arthur, Editorial Board Member, Neuhold, Erich J., Editorial Board Member, Stiller, Burkhard, Editorial Board Member, Stettner, Lukasz, Editorial Board Member, Pries-Heje, Jan, Editorial Board Member, Kreps, David, Editorial Board Member, Rettberg, Achim, Editorial Board Member, Furnell, Steven, Editorial Board Member, Mercier-Laurent, Eunika, Editorial Board Member, Winckler, Marco, Editorial Board Member, Malaka, Rainer, Editorial Board Member, Kayakutlu, Gülgün, editor, Owoc, Mieczyslaw Lech, editor, Wahid, Abdul, editor, and Mason, Karl, editor

Published
2024
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4. Application of Machine Learning for Air Quality Analysis

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Ocaña, Jesús, Miñan, Guillermo, Chauca, Luis, Espínola, Karina, Leiva, Luis, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Botto-Tobar, Miguel, editor, Zambrano Vizuete, Marcelo, editor, Montes León, Sergio, editor, Torres-Carrión, Pablo, editor, and Durakovic, Benjamin, editor

Published
2024
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6. Evaluation of Dust Concentration Using Computer Measurement Technologies

Author

Oborskyi, Gennadii, Gugnin, Vladimir, Perperi, Liudmyla, Goloborodko, Ganna, Goloborodko, Volodymyr, Chaari, Fakher, Series Editor, Gherardini, Francesco, Series Editor, Ivanov, Vitalii, Series Editor, Haddar, Mohamed, Series Editor, Cavas-Martínez, Francisco, Editorial Board Member, di Mare, Francesca, Editorial Board Member, Kwon, Young W., Editorial Board Member, Trojanowska, Justyna, Editorial Board Member, Xu, Jinyang, Editorial Board Member, Tonkonogyi, Volodymyr, editor, Oborskyi, Gennadii, editor, and Pavlenko, Ivan, editor

Published
2024
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8. Assessment of Air Quality as a Positive Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown with Reference to an Industrial City and a Populated City of India

Author

Nayak, Anurag, Dasgupta, Tunnisha, Shiuly, Amit, Koner, Suman, Kacprzyk, Janusz, Series Editor, Pal, Nikhil R., Advisory Editor, Bello Perez, Rafael, Advisory Editor, Corchado, Emilio S., Advisory Editor, Hagras, Hani, Advisory Editor, Kóczy, László T., Advisory Editor, Kreinovich, Vladik, Advisory Editor, Lin, Chin-Teng, Advisory Editor, Lu, Jie, Advisory Editor, Melin, Patricia, Advisory Editor, Nedjah, Nadia, Advisory Editor, Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh, Advisory Editor, Wang, Jun, Advisory Editor, Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha, editor, Das, Gautam, editor, De, Sourav, editor, and Mrsic, Leo, editor

Published
2023
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9. Analysis of Air Pollution Monitoring System in Lithuania

Author

Mažeika, Marius, Juodvalkis, Darius, Kacprzyk, Janusz, Series Editor, Gomide, Fernando, Advisory Editor, Kaynak, Okyay, Advisory Editor, Liu, Derong, Advisory Editor, Pedrycz, Witold, Advisory Editor, Polycarpou, Marios M., Advisory Editor, Rudas, Imre J., Advisory Editor, Wang, Jun, Advisory Editor, Kabashkin, Igor, editor, Yatskiv, Irina, editor, and Prentkovskis, Olegas, editor

Published
2023
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10. Regulatory update: Iowa Public Utilities Commission; Iowa Utilities Commission , has submitted ( EPB-2002-0150 ) Paper Documents Filed Prior to January 2, 2009 (2 of 3) 7.1 Transcripts (4 of 5)

Subjects
Public utilities, Air quality, Natural resources, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Des Moines: Iowa Public Utilities Commission has issued the following document: TESTIMOI\IY OF CATIIARINE ANN RATTENSPERGER FITZSIMMONS I WITNESS IDENTIFICATION z Q. Please state your name and business address. 3 [...]

Published
2024

11. Air pollution impacts from a pulp and paper mill facility located in adjacent communities, Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada and Madawaska, Maine, United States

Author

Joelle Dionne and Tony R. Walker

Subjects
Air pollution, Pulp and paper, Air quality, National pollution release Inventory (NPRI), United States toxics release inventory (US TRI), Environmental sciences, GE1-350
Abstract

Pulp and paper mills are known large emitters of air pollution creating potential environmental challenges and human health impacts. This study assesses air pollution and associated impacts from connected pulp and paper facilities which operate in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada, and Madawaska, Maine, United States (US). Despite operating within two regulatory jurisdictions on both sides of the international border (in Canada and the US), the mills have exceeded their approvals to operate and national air quality regulations multiple times between 2010 and 2017. Previous studies have linked many types of cancer as well as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases to air pollution emitted by pulp and paper mills, making this an important regional issue in Canada and the US. While potential environmental and community impacts are likely similar on both sides of the international border, emissions from each side are not reported on the other, and few studies have been conducted on either side. Historic and ongoing lack of local epidemiological health and environmental impact studies and recommendations for improvements to mill operations to improve environmental and human health are presented.

Published
2021
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12. Sensitivity Operator-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Heterogeneous Air Quality Monitoring Data

Author

Penenko, Alexey, Penenko, Vladimir, Tsvetova, Elena, Gochakov, Alexander, Pyanova, Elza, Konopleva, Viktoriia, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Lirkov, Ivan, editor, and Margenov, Svetozar, editor

Published
2022
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14. Designing Air Quality Monitoring Systems in Smart Cities

Author

Marini, Andrea, Mariani, Patrizia, Proietti, Massimiliano, Garinei, Alberto, Proietti, Stefania, Sdringola, Paolo, Menculini, Lorenzo, Marconi, Marcello, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Klein, Cornel, editor, Jarke, Matthias, editor, Helfert, Markus, editor, Berns, Karsten, editor, and Gusikhin, Oleg, editor

Published
2022
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16. Fuzzy Controller for Indoor Air Quality Control: A Sport Complex Case Study

Author

Omarov, Bakhytzhan, Altayeva, Aigerim, Demeuov, Akhan, Tastanov, Adilbay, Kassymbekov, Zhakipbek, Koishybayev, Arman, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Luhach, Ashish Kumar, editor, Jat, Dharm Singh, editor, Bin Ghazali, Kamarul Hawari, editor, Gao, Xiao-Zhi, editor, and Lingras, Pawan, editor

Published
2021
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17. An Ensemble Approach of Multi-objective Differential Evolution Based Benzene Detection

Author

Behal, Veerawali, Singh, Ramandeep, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Singh, Pradeep Kumar, editor, Veselov, Gennady, editor, Vyatkin, Valeriy, editor, Pljonkin, Anton, editor, Dodero, Juan Manuel, editor, and Kumar, Yugal, editor

Published
2021
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21. Quantifying Local Energy Demand Through Pollution Analysis

Author

Smith, Cole, Dobroshynskyi, Andrii, McIntosh, Suzanne, Goos, Gerhard, Founding Editor, Hartmanis, Juris, Founding Editor, Bertino, Elisa, Editorial Board Member, Gao, Wen, Editorial Board Member, Steffen, Bernhard, Editorial Board Member, Woeginger, Gerhard, Editorial Board Member, Yung, Moti, Editorial Board Member, Nicosia, Giuseppe, editor, Ojha, Varun, editor, La Malfa, Emanuele, editor, Jansen, Giorgio, editor, Sciacca, Vincenzo, editor, Pardalos, Panos, editor, Giuffrida, Giovanni, editor, and Umeton, Renato, editor

Published
2020
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23. AFANDPA OPPOSES EPA'S FINAL NOX FIP RULE THE RULE SHOULD EXCLUDE PAPER MILL BOILERS

Subjects
United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Paper industry, Nitrogen oxide, Paper mills, Air quality, Heating -- Equipment and supplies, Air quality management, News, opinion and commentary, American Forest and Paper Association
Abstract

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by the American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA): The American Forest and Paper Association (AFandPA) President and CEO Heidi Brock issued the [...]

Published
2023

24. Predicting Air Quality from Low-Cost Sensor Measurements

Author

Huggard, Hamish, Koh, Yun Sing, Riddle, Patricia, Olivares, Gustavo, Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira, Editorial Board Member, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Kotenko, Igor, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Sivalingam, Krishna M., Founding Editor, Washio, Takashi, Founding Editor, Yuan, Junsong, Founding Editor, Islam, Rafiqul, editor, Koh, Yun Sing, editor, Zhao, Yanchang, editor, Warwick, Graco, editor, Stirling, David, editor, Li, Chang-Tsun, editor, and Islam, Zahidul, editor

Published
2019
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25. Green Map - An Application for Air Quality Monitoring in the City

Author

Soponar, Diana, Ciuciu, Ioana, Hutchison, David, Series Editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series Editor, Kittler, Josef, Series Editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series Editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series Editor, Mitchell, John C., Series Editor, Naor, Moni, Series Editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series Editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series Editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series Editor, Tygar, Doug, Series Editor, Debruyne, Christophe, editor, Panetto, Hervé, editor, Guédria, Wided, editor, Bollen, Peter, editor, Ciuciu, Ioana, editor, and Meersman, Robert, editor

Published
2019
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26. Surveying and Analyzing Urban Environment Approaches of Air Quality Monitoring

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Haiahem, Rahim, Ghazel, Cherif, Saidane, Leila Azouz, Boumerdassi, Selma, Hutchison, David, Series Editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series Editor, Kittler, Josef, Series Editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series Editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series Editor, Mitchell, John C., Series Editor, Naor, Moni, Series Editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series Editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series Editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series Editor, Tygar, Doug, Series Editor, Renault, Éric, editor, Boumerdassi, Selma, editor, and Bouzefrane, Samia, editor

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2019
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27. Air quality in Xizang remains excellent or good: white paper

Subjects
Air quality, Air pollution, Business, general, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

BEIJING, November 10, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Since 2016, the proportion of days with excellent or good air quality in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region has reached over 99 [...]

Published
2023

29. Towards Air Quality Estimation Using Collected Multimodal Environmental Data

Author

Moumtzidou, Anastasia, Papadopoulos, Symeon, Vrochidis, Stefanos, Kompatsiaris, Ioannis, Kourtidis, Konstantinos, Hloupis, George, Stavrakas, Ilias, Papachristopoulou, Konstantina, Keratidis, Christodoulos, Hutchison, David, Series editor, Kanade, Takeo, Series editor, Kittler, Josef, Series editor, Kleinberg, Jon M., Series editor, Mattern, Friedemann, Series editor, Mitchell, John C., Series editor, Naor, Moni, Series editor, Pandu Rangan, C., Series editor, Steffen, Bernhard, Series editor, Terzopoulos, Demetri, Series editor, Tygar, Doug, Series editor, Weikum, Gerhard, Series editor, Satsiou, Anna, editor, Panos, Georgios, editor, Praggidis, Ioannis, editor, Vrochidis, Stefanos, editor, Papadopoulos, Symeon, editor, Keratidis, Christodoulos, editor, Syropoulou, Panagiota, editor, and Liu, Hai-Ying, editor

Published
2016
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30. Prediction of Environmental Changes in Dumpyard Sites: A Case Study of Pallikaranai Dumpyard, Chennai, Tamilnadu

Author

Sree Sharmila, T, Swathika, R, Filipe, Joaquim, Editorial Board Member, Ghosh, Ashish, Editorial Board Member, Kotenko, Igor, Editorial Board Member, Prates, Raquel Oliveira, Editorial Board Member, Zhou, Lizhu, Editorial Board Member, Barbosa, Simone Diniz Junqueira, Editorial Board Member, Chen, Phoebe, Editorial Board Member, Du, Xiaoyong, Editorial Board Member, Kara, Orhun, Editorial Board Member, Liu, Ting, Editorial Board Member, Sivalingam, Krishna M., Editorial Board Member, Washio, Takashi, Editorial Board Member, Yuan, Junsong, Editorial Board Member, Unal, Aynur, editor, Nayak, Malaya, editor, Mishra, Durgesh Kumar, editor, Singh, Dharm, editor, and Joshi, Amit, editor

Published
2016
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34. An Integrated WSN and Mobile Robot System for Agriculture and Environment Applications

Author

Zhou, Hong, Qi, Haixia, Banhazi, Thomas M., Low, Tobias, Akan, Ozgur, Series editor, Bellavista, Paolo, Series editor, Cao, Jiannong, Series editor, Coulson, Geoff, Series editor, Dressler, Falko, Series editor, Ferrari, Domenico, Series editor, Gerla, Mario, Series editor, Kobayashi, Hisashi, Series editor, Palazzo, Sergio, Series editor, Sahni, Sartaj, Series editor, Shen, Xuemin (Sherman), Series editor, Stan, Mircea, Series editor, Jia, Xiaohua, Series editor, Zomaya, Albert, Series editor, Stojmenovic, Ivan, editor, Cheng, Zixue, editor, and Guo, Song, editor

Published
2014
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35. Air pollution impacts from a pulp and paper mill facility located in adjacent communities, Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada and Madawaska, Maine, United States

Author

Tony R. Walker and Joelle Dionne

Subjects
United States toxics release inventory (US TRI), Environmental Engineering, National pollution release Inventory (NPRI), Air pollution, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, engineering.material, medicine.disease_cause, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Human health, 0302 clinical medicine, Environmental protection, Pulp and paper, medicine, Mill, GE1-350, Environmental impact assessment, Waste Management and Disposal, Air quality index, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Global and Planetary Change, business.industry, Pulp (paper), Paper mill, 030210 environmental & occupational health, Pollution, 6. Clean water, Environmental sciences, 13. Climate action, Air quality, engineering, Environmental science, business
Abstract

Pulp and paper mills are known large emitters of air pollution creating potential environmental challenges and human health impacts. This study assesses air pollution and associated impacts from connected pulp and paper facilities which operate in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada, and Madawaska, Maine, United States (US). Despite operating within two regulatory jurisdictions on both sides of the international border (in Canada and the US), the mills have exceeded their approvals to operate and national air quality regulations multiple times between 2010 and 2017. Previous studies have linked many types of cancer as well as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases to air pollution emitted by pulp and paper mills, making this an important regional issue in Canada and the US. While potential environmental and community impacts are likely similar on both sides of the international border, emissions from each side are not reported on the other, and few studies have been conducted on either side. Historic and ongoing lack of local epidemiological health and environmental impact studies and recommendations for improvements to mill operations to improve environmental and human health are presented.

Published
2021

36. Canada : Air quality operating approval renewed for Lake Utopia Paper

Subjects
Paper mills, Air quality, Air pollution, Paper industry, Business, international
Abstract

The provincial government will issue a new Class 1 air quality approval to Lake Utopia Paper, near St. George, to operate its pulp and paper mill. The company's current approval [...]

Published
2020

37. Research on Thermal Insulation Performance and Impact on Indoor Air Quality of Cellulose-Based Thermal Insulation Materials.

Author

Petcu, Cristian, Hegyi, Andreea, Stoian, Vlad, Dragomir, Claudiu Sorin, Ciobanu, Adrian Alexandru, Lăzărescu, Adrian-Victor, and Florean, Carmen

Subjects
INDOOR air quality, THERMAL insulation, INSULATING materials, WASTE paper, CIGARETTE filters, CONSTRUCTION materials, RAW materials
Abstract

Worldwide, the need for thermal insulation materials used to increase the energy performance of buildings and ensure indoor thermal comfort is constantly growing. There are several traditional, well-known and frequently used thermal insulation materials on the building materials market, but there is a growing trend towards innovative materials based on agro-industrial waste. This paper analyses the performance of 10 such innovative thermal insulation materials obtained by recycling cellulosic and/or animal waste, using standardised testing methods. More precisely, thermal insulation materials based on the following raw materials were analysed: cellulose acetate, cigarette filter manufacturing waste; cellulose acetate, cigarette filter manufacturing waste and cigarette paper waste; cellulose acetate, waste from cigarette filter manufacturing, waste cigarette paper and waste aluminised paper; cellulose from waste paper (two types made by two independent manufacturers); wood fibres; cellulose from cardboard waste; cellulose from waste cardboard, poor processing, inhomogeneous product; rice husk waste and composite based on sheep wool, recycled PET fibres and cellulosic fibres for the textile industry. The analysis followed the performance in terms of thermal insulating quality, evidenced by the thermal conductivity coefficient (used as a measurable indicator) determined for both dry and conditioned material at 50% RH, in several density variants, simulating the subsidence under its own weight or under various possible stresses arising in use. The results showed in most cases that an increase in material density has beneficial effects by reducing the coefficient of thermal conductivity, but exceptions were also reported. In conjunction with this parameter, the analysis of the 10 types of materials also looked at their moisture sorption/desorption capacity (using as a measurable indicator the amount of water stored by the material), concluding that, although they have a capacity to regulate the humidity of the indoor air, under low RH conditions the water loss is not complete, leaving a residual quantity of material that could favour the development of mould. Therefore, the impact on indoor air quality was also analysed by assessing the risk of mould growth (using as a measurable indicator the class and performance category of the material in terms of nutrient content conducive to the growth of microorganisms) under high humidity conditions but also the resistance to the action of two commonly encountered moulds, Aspergillus niger and Penicillium notatum. The results showed a relative resistance to the action of microbiological factors, indicating however the need for intensified biocidal treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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38. Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the compliance of local authorities establishing clean air zones with the policy paper entitled Clean air zone framework, updated on 6 October 2022

Subjects
Nitrogen dioxide, Air quality, Local government -- United Kingdom, Business, international
Abstract

London: UK Parliament has issued the following written answer: Answer Jesse Norman Answered on 10 November 2022 The Joint Air Quality Unit's evaluation programme aims to ensure that the nitrogen [...]

Published
2022

39. Canada : Air quality approval renewed for Irving Pulp and Paper Ltd

Subjects
Air quality, Air pollution, Business, international
Abstract

The provincial government will issue a new Class 1 air quality approval for the Irving Pulp and Paper Reversing Falls Mill in Saint John. The company operates a complex that [...]

Published
2022

40. A review of regulating ecosystem services in the context of urban planning.

Author

Stoycheva, Vanya and Geneletti, Davide

Subjects
ECOSYSTEM services, URBAN planning, AIR quality, URBAN ecology, HUMIDITY
Abstract

There is a high growing demand for regulating ecosystem services such as air quality regulation, regulation of air temperature and humidity, and flood regulation, in urban ecosystems which is important for urban planning. A comprehensive review of the current studies of the urban ecosystem, regulating ecosystem services, and their connection with urban planning actions is needed. The current paper presents such a review conducted in six stages to evaluate the state-of-the-art of regulating ecosystem services and their relationship with urban planning. It includes 58 papers selected after a precise keywords search and developed by publication screening, defining indicators, developing an assessment template, and meta-analysis of the results. The analyses are focused on spatial data used in the studies, the methods applied for ecosystem services assessment, and the relationships between regulating ecosystem services, urban planning, and green infrastructure. The most studied regulating ecosystem services within reviewed publications are regulation of chemical composition of atmosphere and oceans, regulation of temperature and humidity, including ventilation and transpiration, and hydrological cycle and water flow regulation (including flood control, and coastal protection). Although urban planningrelated papers are only 1/3 of the pool of papers, appropriate results have been obtained for assessing the urban planning-regulating ecosystem services relation. The review also identified some significant knowledge gaps that can be used as a starting point for future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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41. Numerical Regional Air Quality Forecast Tests Over the Mainland of China

Author

An, Junling, Huang, Meiyuan, Wang, Zifa, Zhang, Xinling, Ueda, Hiromasa, Cheng, Xinjin, Satake, Kenichi, editor, Shindo, Junko, editor, Takamatsu, Takejiro, editor, Nakano, Takanori, editor, Aoki, Shigeru, editor, Fukuyama, Tsutomu, editor, Hatakeyama, Shiro, editor, Ikuta, Kazukamasa, editor, Kawashima, Munetsugu, editor, Kohno, Yoshihisa, editor, Kojima, Satoru, editor, Murano, Kentaro, editor, Okita, Toshiichi, editor, Taoda, Hiroshi, editor, Tsunoda, Kinichi, editor, and Tsurumi, Makoto, editor

Published
2001
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42. CFD methods for the reduction of reactive gas emission from a paper laminating machine

Author

Horvath, Andras, Jordan, Christian, Forstner, Gerhard, Altacher, Peter, and Harasek, Michael

Subjects
*PAPER containers, *PAPER converting machinery, *FLUID dynamics approximation methods, *GAS flow, *AIR quality, *ATMOSPHERIC boundary layer, *ADHESIVES & the environment, *GEOMETRY, *PRODUCT quality, *WORK environment
Abstract

In cooperation with the world’s second largest manufacturer of beverage cartons (SIG Combibloc®) for liquid foodstuffs an innovative off-take for neutralisation of reactive gas in a paper laminating machine was constructed. A great challenge during engineering work was ensuring a high concentration of the reactive gas where needed and at the same time minimising work place impact in a machine basically without housing. Preliminary 2D-models of the machine geometry proved to be insufficient in describing all the governing flow phenomena. A simplified 3D-geometry containing all important parts of the complex machinery was necessary for accurate predictions. It was found that the driving force of air movement and transport of reactive gas (which acts as an adhesive agent) from the reaction zone in the interior of the laminating machine to the outside is a boundary flow caused by the rapid movement of carton material and rotating cylinders. A physically correct simulation result of the boundary flow is a premise for correct prediction of air flow in and around the machinery. Lacking experimental data (due to an inaccessible geometry) a worst case scenario was constructed by generating a grid and using turbulence models that maximised mass transport in the boundary layer region and thus emission of (tracer)gas from the machine. CFD simulations were done using the geometry preprocessor Gambit, and the finite volume solver Fluent. The results of the analysis of the emission paths from the machine were surprising and led to the construction of an effective off-take relatively far away from the emission source. The chosen position ensures low disturbance of highly sensitive flow patterns inside the machine and diffusive mixing, dilution and contamination of the surroundings. The effect of the new off-take is an immediate and significant rise in air quality in the vicinity of the laminating machine and ensures maximum allowed concentration in the plant area. The product quality furthermore is uncompromised by the working off-take which was another important goal of this work. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Published
2007
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43. Data for the paper: 'A new methodology to evaluate if local policies are effective during high PM2.5 episodes, with application on 10 European cities'

Author

Enrico Pisoni

Subjects
air quality
Abstract

Data for the paper: "A new methodology to evaluate if local policies are effective during high PM2.5 episodes, with application on 10 European cities". This repository contains the data used to prepare the manuscript: "A new methodology to evaluate if local policies are effective during high PM2.5 episodes, with application on 10 European cities". The manuscript proposes a methodology to evaluate if local emission reduction policies are effective during high level PM2.5 pollution episodes. Usually short-term action plans are designed to address high pollution episodes but it’s not clear, in the literature, how / if these plans are effective; and, furthermore, if these plans are really tackling high levels of pollution. In this paper we try to address this issue with a novel approach. In particular, this novel approach allows for the evaluation of the impact of emission reduction policies at different scales (from urban to EU scale) on different PM2.5 concentration levels. The methodology is applied to 10 big cities in Europe, to show on which sources and concentrations ranges, local actions to improve air quality are effective. Results show that for some cities local actions are effective on low level concentrations, in other cities on high level concentrations. This mean that, in some geographical areas, to tackle air pollution episodes, on top of local actions a coordinated approach (among cities or even at higher levels) would be useful. And also that effectiveness of local actions on city pollution are highly city dependent.

Published
2021
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44. Air Pollution and Innovation : MSI Discussion Paper MSI_2113

Author

Bracht, Felix and Verhoeven, Dennis

Subjects
Air Pollution, Patent, Innovation, Air Quality, Productivity
Abstract

Existing estimates of the economic costs of air pollution do not account for its effect on inventive output. Using two weather phenomena as instruments, we estimate this effect in a sample of 1,288 European regions. A decrease in exposure to small particulate matter of 0:17 g=m3 – the average yearly reduction in Europe – leads to 1.7% more patented inventions. After ruling out reallocation of human capital, inventor mortality and R&D expenditures as drivers of the effect, we conclude that air pollution’s harm to economic output increases by at least 10% when accounting for innovation. ispartof: FEB Research Report MSI_2113 issue:MSI_2113 pages:1-34 status: published

Published
2021

45. GBAC PUBLISHES PEER-REVIEWED PAPER ON AIR QUALITY IN NON-HEALTHCARE SETTINGS

Subjects
Air quality, Air pollution, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Lincolnwood, IL -- The following information was released by ISSA--The Worldwide Cleaning Industry Association: The Global Biorisk Advisory Council⢠(GBAC), a Division of ISSA, today announced that its first official [...]

Published
2022

46. Airsense-to-act: A concept paper for covid-19 countermeasures based on artificial intelligence algorithms and multi-source data processing

Author

Gianluca Di Cosmo, Francesco Mauro, Fabrizio Passarini, Marco Carminati, Silvia Liberata Ullo, Alessandro Sebastianelli, Sebastianelli A., Mauro F., Di Cosmo G., Passarini F., Carminati M., and Ullo S.L.

Subjects
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Decision support system, Artificial intelligence, Pollutants, Sensor networks, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Computer science, Process (engineering), Geography, Planning and Development, lcsh:G1-922, Cloud computing, 010501 environmental sciences, Safeguarding, Pollutant, 01 natural sciences, Microanalysi, Computer Science - Computers and Society, Microanalysis, Satellite remote sensing, Computers and Society (cs.CY), Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Computers in Earth Sciences, Risk levels, COVID-19 counteractions, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Artificial neural network, business.industry, Mechanism (biology), COVID-19 counteraction, Macroanalysis, Long short term memory neural network, Crowding, Risk level, Macroanalysi, Air quality, Environmental chemistry, Anthropogenic activities, business, Anthropogenic activitie, Wireless sensor network, Algorithm, lcsh:Geography (General)
Abstract

The aim of this concept paper is the description of a new tool to support institutions in the implementation of targeted countermeasures, based on quantitative and multi-scale elements, for the fight and prevention of emergencies, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. The tool is a cloud-based centralized system, a multi-user platform that relies on artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for the processing of heterogeneous data, which can produce as an output the level of risk. The model includes a specific neural network which is first trained to learn the correlations between selected inputs, related to the case of interest: environmental variables (chemical&ndash, physical, such as meteorological), human activity (such as traffic and crowding), level of pollution (in particular the concentration of particulate matter) and epidemiological variables related to the evolution of the contagion. The tool realized in the first phase of the project will serve later both as a decision support system (DSS) with predictive capacity, when fed by the actual measured data, and as a simulation bench performing the tuning of certain input values, to identify which of them led to a decrease in the degree of risk. In this way, we aimed to design different scenarios to compare different restrictive strategies and the actual expected benefits, to adopt measures sized to the actual needs, adapted to the specific areas of analysis and useful for safeguarding human health, and we compared the economic and social impacts of the choices. Although ours is a concept paper, some preliminary analyses have been shown, and two different case studies are presented, whose results have highlighted a correlation between NO2, mobility and COVID-19 data. However, given the complexity of the virus diffusion mechanism, linked to air pollutants but also to many other factors, these preliminary studies confirmed the need, on the one hand, to carry out more in-depth analyses, and on the other, to use AI algorithms to capture the hidden relationships among the huge amounts of data to process.

Published
2021

48. Industrial Fire at Washington Paper Mill Worsens Air Quality in Portland.

Subjects
AIR quality, PAPER mills, SMOKE plumes, WOOD chips, FUELWOOD
Abstract

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - A commercial fire fueled by wood chip piles at a paper mill in southwest Washington is worsening air quality in the Portland area. Crews must dig through wood chip piles to apply water, The Daily News reported. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2023