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Toxicology --- Hazardous substances --- Air pollution. Air purification

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Outdoor air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide, the majority of which are caused by exposure to fine particulate matter (or PM2.5) air pollution. Most of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Reducing PM2.5 air pollution is thus crucial for improving public-health outcomes in those countries. Measuring and reducing the health impacts of PM2.5 is especially challenging in many LMICs because ground-level air-quality monitoring networks are typically nonexistent. Where they are in place, they are often not properly operated and maintained and are thus unreliable. Limited local expertise in air-quality measurement presents additional challenges. These shortcomings can undermine a country's ability to design and implement effective policies to improve outdoor air quality. Satellite technology has been used successfully for measuring air quality in high-income countries where operation of ground-level air-quality monitoring networks is well established. However, this publication investigates the performance of satellites in LMICs for predicting outdoor concentrations of PM2.5, based on case studies in nine cities in different regions representing a range of environmental conditions (including mountainous, dusty, and coastal). The report finds that the satellite-derived estimates of PM2.5 in LMICs are associated with very large uncertainty, ranging from 21 percent to 85 percent depending on the model used for translating satellite measurements of aerosol optical depth-the parameter measured by satellites-to surface-level outdoor PM2.5 concentrations. This report shows that satellites are unreliable for estimating ambient concentrations of PM2.5 in LMICs. Furthermore, satellite-derived measurements cannot replace properly operated and maintained ground-level monitoring networks for measuring the concentrations of PM2.5 that human beings are typically exposed to daily. Thus, it is important that LMICs strengthen support for the establishment of ground-level monitoring networks to measure air pollutants, notably PM2.5, that cause mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions with LMICs.

Air --- Artificial satellites in air pollution control. --- Pollution --- Measurement.

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Hybrid and Combined Processes for Air Pollution Control: Methodologies, Mechanisms and Effect of Key Parameters provides an exhaustive inventory of hybrid and combined processes in the field of air treatment. The book covers principles, the effect of key parameters, technologies and reactors of the processes and their implementation, from lab-scale to industrial scale, also identifying future trends. Sections discuss effects on the environment and living beings, identify novel techniques and innovations, and offer a thorough assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of each.

Air --- Air quality management. --- Pollution control equipment. --- Purification --- Equipment and supplies. --- Equipment, Pollution control --- Pollution equipment --- Industrial equipment --- Air pollution control --- Air quality --- Control of air pollution --- Environmental protection --- Pollution control equipment --- Pollution --- Control --- Management --- Air pollution.

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Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can affect bureaucratic regulation. Using empirical evidence, it examines and compares the control of different air pollutants in China-an autocracy-and, to a lesser extent, Mexico-a democracy. Making use of new data, approaches, and techniques across political science, environmental sciences, and engineering, Shen reveals that local leaders and politicians are incentivized to cater to the policy preferences of their superiors or constituents, respectively, giving rise to varying levels of regulatory stringency during the leaders' tenures. Shen demonstrates that when ambiguity dilutes regulatory effectiveness, having the right incentives and enhanced monitoring is insufficient for successful policy implementation. Vividly explaining key phenomena through anecdotes and personal interviews, this book identifies new causes of air pollution and proposes timely solutions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Air --- Organizational behavior --- Environmental policy --- Local government --- Incentives in air quality management --- Air quality management --- Pollution --- Government policy --- Economic aspects --- Environmental protection --- Air pollution control --- Air quality --- Control of air pollution --- Environmental auditing --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Management --- Organization --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology --- Behavior in organizations --- Atmosphere --- Control

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Thermodynamics --- Mechanical properties of solids --- General ecology and biosociology --- Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Materials sciences --- Heat engines. Steam engines --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Fuels --- Building design --- Building materials. Building technology --- thermodynamica --- volksgezondheid --- environment --- bouwkunde --- milieutechnologie --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- fysica --- warmteoverdracht --- Indoor air pollution. --- Indoor air quality.