Overview

A title in the Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry series, Particulates Matter: Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants provides the latest technical findings in the study of particulate matter (PM). It links these findings to awareness-raising and actionable schemes for legislated remediation and engineered solutions. Written in an engaging and informative manner, the book begins with a multi-disciplinary overview of the major sources and unique classes of PM, detection techniques, and their impact, including molecular changes resulting in health effects. It then goes one step further by proposing and examining the means to curtail and contain PM generation and ameliorate their impacts. Particulates Matter: Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants offers a high-quality reference guide to PM that will greatly benefit technology leaders in environmental compliance groups, epidemiologists and other public health professionals focused on pollution and health, and researchers and scholars working in pollution, climate change, and urbanization. It may also be useful to advanced undergraduate and low-level graduate students in environmental sciences.

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Author:   Vikram Rao (Research Triangle Energy Consortium, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA) ,  William Vizuete (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint:   Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
ISBN:  

9780128169049

ISBN 10:   0128169044
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Part I 1. Introduction: Why Should You Care about PM? 2. Principal Categories of Anthropogenic PM Part II: Particle Size: Beneficial and Adverse Impacts of Differences in Size 3. Size Matters 4. Health Effects Part III: Measuring and Mitigating 5. An Organizing Paradigm for Measurement and Mitigation of PM 6. Detection Methods 7. Traditional Mitigation Methods Part IV: Engineered Solutions for PM Amelioration and Elimination 8. Clean Coal Not an Oxymoron 9. Wood and Other Cellulose Combustion 10. Reducing PM in Diesel Engine Exhaust 11. Electric Vehicles: Transformational Solution for Low PM Transportation Part V: Charting the Future for Research and Policy 12. Science Informing Policy 13. Research Directions: Key Investments That Will Yield Results Part VI: Conclusions

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Vikram Rao is the executive director of Research Triangle Energy Consortium since September 2008. He also advises the non-profit RTI International, the venture capitalist Energy Ventures AS, and firms BioLargo Inc., Global Energy Talent Ltd., Alchemy Sciences and Biota Technology. He previously spent 9 years with Halliburton, including serving as senior vice president and chief technology officer, where he was responsible for Halliburton's technology effort and intellectual asset management and is past-Chairman of the North Carolina Mining and Energy Commission. Dr. Rao is the author of more than 40 publications and has been awarded 42 United States patents and foreign analogs in fields that include non-ferrous metal refining, alloy formulations, and oil and gas technology.

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