Air quality in Europe: 2020 report
Better air quality has led to a significant reduction of premature deaths over the past decade in Europe. However, the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest official data show that almost all Europeans
Carbon Monoxide
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Source profile and status of carbon monoxide in Madurai city
This research report pertains to the automobile emissions and the subsequent status of ambient air quality with special reference to carbon monoxide at twenty five stations within the urban limits of
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Pollution norms go up in smoke
With nearly all residential societies, malls, offices and homes surviving on generator sets in Gurgaon, serious air pollution is but only inevitable. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) sources, levels of particulate matter exceed prescribed limits for most of the day several times over in the city. An analysis in December 2005 revealed that against a prescribed limit of 80 micrograms/cubic metre, NO2 averaged 283 micrograms/cubic metre. PM10 was a whopping 721 micrograms/cubic metre against a limit of 100. The levels of CO shot up three times to 6,240 micrograms/cubic metre against the permissible limit of 2,000 in the evenings. The alarm bells started ringing then, and matters have only become worse since. According to CPCB, pollution from generator sets stands second only to vehicular pollution, and in a city like Gurgaon, which is completely generator-dependent, the situation is close to getting out of hand. Gensets emit dangerous gases like CO and NOx which have a terrible impact on health thanks to greater personal exposure levels.
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Air quality impact assessment studies at Singoli Bhatwari hydroelectric power plant
Air Quality Impact Assessment studies of Singoli Bhatwari Hydroelectric Power Plant are reported. The plant site is connected to the dam site via a road. Computations of four pollutants namely Carbon Monoxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Oxides of Nitrogen and Suspended Particulate Matter have been made at various sites around the plant using CALINE-3 model. Sources considered responsible for air pollution are vehicular traffic on road and construction activities around the plant site.
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Correction factors of CALINE 4: A study of automobile pollution in Kolkata
A study of automobile pollution in Kolkata has been made using CALINE 4 model. This model was selected as it offered several advantages over other models. It has been first used as the base model to develop the correction factors for the application of this model for the city of Kolkata, and then the modified model with the correction factors has been validated. Carbon Monoxide was chosen for the model because it is principally emitted from vehicular sources and daily background concentration data of this gas were available for a year for comparative studies.
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15 fall sick in apparent carbon monoxide poisoning at Nagano mountain lodge
Fifteen people who were staying at a mountain lodge in Nagano Prefecture fell ill early Monday due to carbon monoxide poisoning, police said. After receiving a report from the lodge, police in Nagano and Yamanashi prefectures carried the 15
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New York gets US $350 million to check congestion
new York mayor Michael R Bloomberg announced recently that the federal department of transport had awarded more than us $350 million to New York to implement the mayor's alternative plan to reduce
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Urban ambient air quality in Chennai city based on exceedence factor criteria during 1999-2003
Five years air monitoring study was carried out to assess the primary air pollutants present in the ambient air in Chennai city during 1999-2003 at two different sampling stations.
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Daily exposure to air pollutants in indoor, outdoor and in-vehicle micro-environments: A pilot study in Delhi
<p>The study measures exposure to air pollution in an urban setting in India. Integrated daily exposure to respirable suspended particulates (RSP) and carbon monoxide (CO) was assessed by personal and area sampling from six micro-environments including those for which prior data did not exist in India.
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Household income and pollution
Country-level analyses of global Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) relationships that use multicountry panel data sets are likely to suffer from several types of aggregation bias that may explain why previous studies have yielded conflicting results.
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A study on automobile emission patterns in Madurai city
This investigation pertains to the emission levels of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons from the vehicles that are plying in Madurai city.