Adoption of hydrogen infrastructure and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) to replace gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles has been proposed as a strategy to reduce criteria pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector and transition to fuel independence. However, it is uncertain (1) to what degree the reduction in criteria pollutants will impact ur...

[1] In situ measurements of trace gases and aerosol optical properties were made in March 2005 at Xianghe (39.798 N, 116.958 E, 35 m), a rural site about 70 km southeast, and generally downwind of the Beijing metropolitan area. High pollutant levels were observed during the experiment, with CO (1.09 ± 1.02 ppmv, average ± standard deviation), SO2 (17.8 ± 15.7 ppbv), NOy (26.0 ± 24.0 ppbv), aero...

Rajasthan is one of the main mineral potential state of India. During the last 30 years it has witnessed enormous expansion of mining industries, but mining of most of the minor minerals coupled with changing climate has posed serious problems to the environmental fabric in the state, apart from base metal beneficiation plants. Groundwater is also being polluted day-by-day by effluents generate...

The objective of this study was to assess the contribution urban runoff in pollutant delivery standing water pools within Edwards Aquifer region Texas. Grab samples were collected weekly over 5 months at one pool, undeveloped and control pond that received minimal runoff. Samples tested for nitrates, total dissolved phosphorus, Escherichia coli, other coliform bacteria. site had higher nitrate,...

BACKGROUND Emissions from solid fuels used for cooking cause ~4 million premature deaths per year. Advanced solid-fuel cookstoves are a potential solution, but they should be assessed by appropriate performance indicators, including biological effects. OBJECTIVE We evaluated two categories of solid-fuel cookstoves for eight pollutant and four mutagenicity emission factors, correlated the muta...

We present an algorithm that makes an appropriate use of a Kalman filter combined with a geometric computation with respect to the localisation of a pollutant-emitting point source. Assuming resourceconstrained inexpensive nodes and no specific placement distance to the source, our approach has been shown to perform well in estimating the coordinates and intensity of a source. Using local gossi...

In New Delhi, the capital city of India, concentrations of regulated air pollutants often exceed the Indian national ambient air quality standards (INAAQS). As the sources of these pollutants differ, it is of utmost priority to understand the most dangerous air pollutant to formulate better control strategies in the city. In this study, regulated air pollutant concentrations in New Delhi during...

Megacities and other major population centers represent large, concentrated sources of anthropogenic pollutants to the atmosphere, with consequences for both local air quality and for regional and global atmospheric chemistry. The tradeoffs between the regional buildup of pollutants near their sources versus long-range export depend on meteorological characteristics which vary as a function of ...