This article presents the results of a transboundary water quality monitoring program at the two Nogales area in the Arizona-Sonora border region. The program was carried out jointly in 1990 by U.S. and Mexican institutions. The results show pollution problems due to deficiencies in Nogales, Sonora municipal sewerage system, causing not only sewage spills in several parts of the city but also c...

Indoor air pollution results in mortalities worldwide, burdening especially the low- and middle-income countries. The volatile semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs SVOCs) emitted from indoor structures furniture materials are important sources of pollution. Exposure to VOCs, such as formaldehyde benzene, has been associated with higher risk reproductive problems, respiratory complications, imm...

air pollution is one of the most challengeable problems in the asalouyeh zone. in order to reduce the air pollutants emission and their effects it is necessary to recognize the amount and spatial dispersion of air pollutants. hence in this paper, evaporative losses of the stored liquids from 16 tanks of an oil company in asalouyeh zone, are determined using tanks 4.0.9d and then dispersion of v...

The air quality of Handan, a typical industrial city in China, has been significantly improved through atmospheric pollution control, except for ozone (O3) pollution. We found that, summer, emissions anthropogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and NOx decreased yearly but the O3 concentration declined during 2013–2015, whereas it experienced worsening after 2015. Therefore, we used Weather ...

Hazardous compounds emitted during the plastic melting process were analyzed to indicate potential air pollution issues associated with recycle plants for waste plastics. These hazardous compounds might be not only from polymer degradation but also from additives and print ink. To confirm what are emitted from them, melting experiments were conducted (150, 200 and 250°C, in air or N2) and volat...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a source of air pollution and are harmful to both human health and the environment. In this study, we fabricated polyurethane/rare earth (PU/RE) composite nanofibrous membranes via electrospinning with the aim of removing VOCs from air. The morphological structure of PU/RE nanofibrous mats was investigated using field emission scanning electron microscopy (...

UNMIX, a sensor modeling routine from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), was used to model volatile organic compound (VOC) receptors in four urban sites in Toronto, Ontario. VOC ambient concentration data acquired in 2000-2009 for 175 VOC species in four air quality monitoring stations were analyzed. UNMIX, by performing multiple modeling attempts upon varying VOC menus-while rejec...

Large-scale oil production from oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada has raised concerns about environmental impacts, such as the magnitude of air pollution emissions. This paper reports compound emission rates (E) for 69-89 nonbiogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for each of four surface mining facilities, determined with a top-down approach using aircraft measurements in the summer of ...

In many regions of China, very rapid economic growth has been accompanied by air pollution caused by vehicle emissions. In one of these regions, the Pearl River Delta, the variations of ground-level ozone and its precursors were investigated. Overall, the ambient concentrations of NO(2) increased quickly between 1995 and 1996, but then slightly decreased due to stringent nitrogen oxide (NO(x)) ...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are crucial to control air pollution in major Chinese cities since VOCs are the dominant factor influencing ambient ozone level, and also an important precursor of secondary organic aerosols. Vehicular evaporative emissions have become a major and growing source of VOC emissions in China. This study consists of lab tests, technology evaluation, emissions modeli...