Asthma is a respiratory disease whose prevalence has been increasing since the mid 1970s and that affects more than 14.6 million residents of the United States. Environmental triggers of asthma include air pollutants that are respiratory irritants. Air toxics emitted into the ambient air are listed in the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) if they can adversely aff...

This paper presents an assessment of indoor air quality at a public bus terminal. For this purpose, air samples were collected and analyzed for the presence of carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. Mathematical modeling was used to simulate emission factors, occupational exposure, and required ventilation rates to maintain adequate indoor air quality. Mitigation m...

Extremely facile and efficient procedure has been developed for the synthesis of alkyl 2,5-dihydro-2-oxo-5-aryl-3-(arylamino) furan-4-carboxylate in the presence of trityl chloride (TrCl) as an organic catalyst in ethanol at ambient temperature. One-pot three-component reaction of aromatic amines, dimethyl and/or diethyl acetylenedicarboxylates and aryl aldehydes offorded the corossponding 3-am...

A soil core, obtained from a contaminated field site, contaminated with a mixture of volatile and semivolatile organic compounds (VOC and SVOC) was subjected to air and steam flushing. Removal rates of volatile and semivolatile organic compounds were monitored during flushing. Air flushing removed a significant portion of the VOC present in the soil, but a significant decline in removal rate oc...

China’s ambitious initiatives to address climate change have attracted significant scholarly attention, yet much less focus was on how is understood in Chinese society. This study analyzes the results from two surveys 2009 and 2016 with nationally representative samples. The findings suggest that people a fairly high awareness of existence anthropogenic causes change. They consider urgent than ...

In recent years, large cities in China face severer air pollution due to motor vehicle emissions. Accurate high-resolution emission inventories are essential as they are commonly used in air quality dispersion modeling analysis to determine impacts from motor vehicle emissions and assess the effectiveness of control strategies. This paper presents a case study based on motor vehicle emissions i...

A retention-time-locked mass spectral database was created specifically for indoor air analysis by thermal desorption/gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy (TD/GC/MS). This Indoor Air Toxics Database contains locked retention times and mass spectra for 171 volatile and semivolatile organic compounds that are targets in various indoor air methods. In combination with Agilent's Deconvolution Repor...