Air pollution in Kenya: a review

P Desouza - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 2020 - Springer
Rapid urbanization, the corresponding increase in vehicle ownership, and the continued
use of solid fuels as an energy source have resulted in the deterioration of air quality in …

Deep Eutectic Solvents Formed by N-Methylacetamide and Heterocyclic Weak Acids for Highly Efficient and Reversible Chemical Absorption of Ammonia

ZL Li, FY Zhong, LS Zhou, ZQ Tian… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are a class of green solvents that hold promising application
in gas separation. With respect to NH3 separation, reversible chemical absorption of NH3 is …

Aerosols in an arid environment: The role of aerosol water content, particulate acidity, precursors, and relative humidity on secondary inorganic aerosols

H Wang, J Ding, J Xu, J Wen, J Han, K Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Meteorological conditions, gas-phase precursors, and aerosol acidity (pH) can influence the
formation of secondary inorganic aerosols (SIA) in fine particulate matter (PM 2.5). Most …

Brownness of organic aerosol over the United States: evidence for seasonal biomass burning and photobleaching effects

LWA Chen, JC Chow, X Wang, J Cao… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Light-absorptivity of organic aerosol may play an important role in visibility and climate
forcing, but it has not been assessed as extensively as black carbon (BC) aerosol. Based on …

Insignificant impact of the “Stay-At-Home” order on ambient air quality in the Memphis metropolitan area, USA

C Jia, X Fu, D Bartelli, L Smith - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
The lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been reported to reduce ambient air
pollution in many cities globally. This study aims to examine whether air pollution dropped in …

Long-term trends in the contribution of PM 2.5 sources to organic carbon (OC) in the Los Angeles basin and the effect of PM emission regulations

A Altuwayjiri, M Pirhadi, S Taghvaee, C Sioutas - Faraday Discussions, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This study aimed to investigate the long-term variations in the contributions of emission
sources to ambient PM2. 5 organic carbon (OC) in central Los Angeles (CELA) and …

Evaluation of a high flow rate electrostatic precipitator (ESP) as a particulate matter (PM) collector for toxicity studies

M Pirhadi, A Mousavi, C Sioutas - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the performance of an electrostatic precipitator (ESP) operating
at high flow rates (ie, 50–100 lpm) as a fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) collector for …

Modeling smoke plume-rise and dispersion from southern United States prescribed burns with daysmoke

GL Achtemeier, SA Goodrick, Y Liu… - Atmosphere, 2011 - mdpi.com
We present Daysmoke, an empirical-statistical plume rise and dispersion model for
simulating smoke from prescribed burns. Prescribed fires are characterized by complex …

Quantifying ambient concentrations of primary and secondary organic aerosol in central Los Angeles using an integrated approach coupling source apportionment …

R Tohidi, A Altuwayjiri, M Pirhadi, C Sioutas - Atmospheric Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study was to explore the correlations between carbonaceous PM
2.5 species (ie, primary and secondary organic aerosols (POAs and SOAs) and elemental …

Speciation and trends of organic nitrogen in southeastern US fine particulate matter (PM2.5)

S Samy, J Robinson, IC Rumsey… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of meteorology and air quality on the concentrations and relative distributions of
free and combined amino acids (FAA; CAA) are evaluated during a month‐long sampling …