Phthalates in the environment: characteristics, fate and transport, and advanced wastewater treatment technologies

HT Tran, C Lin, XT Bui, MK Nguyen, NDT Cao… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phthalates are well-known emerging contaminants that harm human health and the
environment. Therefore, this review aims to discuss about the occurrence, fate, and …

A review of critical residential buildings parameters and activities when investigating indoor air quality and pollutants

MT Baeza_Romero, MR Dudzinska… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Indoor air in residential dwellings can contain a variety of chemicals, sometimes present at
concentrations or in combinations which can have a negative impact on human health …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 face masks: a new source of human and environmental exposure to organophosphate esters

J Fernández-Arribas, T Moreno, R Bartrolí… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
For the first time, organophosphate ester (OPE) content was studied in different types of
surgical, self-filtering (KN95, FFP2, and FFP3) and reusable face masks used for COVID-19 …

Indoor environmental quality classification of school environments by monitoring PM and CO2 concentration levels

L Schibuola, C Tambani - Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays the control of indoor healthiness and comfort has become a key issue in school
environments. Indoor environment quality (IEQ) as regards indoor air quality (IAQ) …

The environmental distribution and toxicity of short-chain chlorinated paraffins and underlying mechanisms: Implications for further toxicological investigation

X Wang, J Zhu, Z Xue, X Jin, Y Jin, Z Fu - Science of The Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Short-chain chlorinated paraffin (SCCP) pollution has become a global threat. Much
attention has been paid to their environmental occurrence and toxicity. In this review, we …

[HTML][HTML] Polychlorinated alkanes in indoor environment: A review of levels, sources, exposure, and health implications for chlorinated paraffin mixtures

IB Ezquer, B Yuan, P Bohlin-Nizzetto, AR Borgen… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Polychlorinated n-alkanes (PCAs) are the main components of chlorinated paraffins (CPs)
mixtures, that have been commonly grouped into short-chain (SCCPs, C 10–13), medium …

Face mask as an indicator and shield of human exposure to traditional and novel organophosphate esters

G Hou, Q Wang, N Li, Y Zhao, Z Wang, S Shi… - Environment …, 2024 - Elsevier
Herein, the trapping effectiveness of N95, filter KN95, medical surgical masks (MSMs), and
disposable medical masks (DMMs) against 19 airborne traditional and novel …

Air pollution caused by phthalates and cyclic siloxanes in Hanoi, Vietnam: levels, distribution characteristics, and implications for inhalation exposure

HQ Anh, HMN Nguyen, TQ Do, KQ Tran… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Contamination status and distribution characteristics of ten phthalic acid esters (PAEs) and
three cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes (CSs) were determined in the air (gas and particle) …

Advanced instrumental approaches for chemical characterization of indoor particulate matter

RMBO Duarte, JFP Gomes, X Querol… - Applied Spectroscopy …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Particulate matter (PM) is an important player of indoor air quality and a topic of great
interest in terms of public health. Deciphering the complex chemical composition of indoor …

Human exposure to short-chain chlorinated paraffins and organophosphate flame retardants in relation to paired multiple sources

G Choo, OD Ekpe, DH Kim, JE Oh - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the levels and distributions of short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) and
organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) were determined in 10–88 aged human …