Advances in Air Quality Monitoring and Assessment

Assessment of exposure to lead through air and biological monitoring in a lead and zinc mine

 Background and aim: Lead is ubiquitous and one of the earliest metals discovered by the human. This metal is widely used in different industries due to its important physico-chemical properties like softness, high malleability, ductility, low melting point and resistance to corrosion. Lead absorbed in body with several routs and when transfer in blood is primarily in red blood cells. Human exp...

Monitoring ambient air quality for health impact assessment.

Arduair: Air Quality Monitoring

Air pollution and quality monitoring is extremely important in today’s world as it has a direct impact on human health. Air pollution is on the rise due to a number of anthropogenic activities and its monitoring is of vital importance to mitigate certain measures to control it. In this paper we put forward a low-cost and low-power sensor based system for air quality monitoring. This sensor base...

Air quality monitoring and forecasting in China

Introduction For the last decade the industrial activity of China has been growing at rapid pace, bringing economic wealth to its 1300 million inhabitants, but also generating an unprecedented level of air pollution. This deteriorates the air quality of the densely populated and industrialized areas such as Beijing, Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta, and increases the background pollution leve...

Air Monitoring: New Advances in Sampling and Detection

As the harmful effects of low-level exposure to hazardous organic air pollutants become more evident, there is constant pressure to improve the detection limits of indoor and ambient air monitoring methods, for example, by collecting larger air volumes and by optimising the sensitivity of the analytical detector. However, at the other end of the scale, rapid industrialisation in the developing ...