[HTML][HTML] Toxicity of airborne nanoparticles: Facts and challenges

J Portugal, C Bedia, F Amato, AT Juárez-Facio… - Environment …, 2024 - Elsevier
Air pollution is one of the most severe environmental health hazards, and airborne
nanoparticles (diameter< 100 nm) are considered particularly hazardous to human health …

Technological, technical, economic, environmental, social, human health risk, toxicological and policy considerations of biodiesel production and use

SB Živković, MV Veljković, IB Banković-Ilić… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper overviews the technological, technical, economic, environmental, social,
toxicological and human health risk considerations of biodiesel production and use. The …

[HTML][HTML] Toxicity and health effects of ultrafine particles: Towards an understanding of the relative impacts of different transport modes

NVS Vallabani, O Gruzieva, K Elihn… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Exposure to particulate matter (PM) has been associated with a wide range of adverse
health effects, but it is still unclear how particles from various transport modes differ in terms …

Molecular characterization of organosulfur compounds in biodiesel and diesel fuel secondary organic aerosol

SL Blair, AC MacMillan, GT Drozd… - Environmental …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA), formed in the photooxidation of diesel fuel, biodiesel fuel,
and 20% biodiesel fuel/80% diesel fuel mixture, are prepared under high-NO x conditions in …

Biodiesel fuels: A greener diesel? A review from a health perspective

KJG Pollitt, D Chhan, K Rais, K Pan… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiesels have been promoted as a greener alternative to diesel with decreased emissions
and health effects. To investigate the scientific basis of the suggested environmental and …

Inflammation, oxidative stress and genotoxicity responses to biodiesel emissions in cultured mammalian cells and animals

P Møller, RH Scholten, M Roursgaard… - Critical reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Biodiesel fuels are alternatives to petrodiesel, especially in the transport sector where they
have lower carbon footprint. Notwithstanding the environmental benefit, biodiesel fuels may …

Impact of biodiesel on regulated and unregulated emissions, and redox and proinflammatory properties of PM emitted from heavy-duty vehicles

G Karavalakis, N Gysel, DA Schmitz, AK Cho… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
The emissions and the potential health effects of particulate matter (PM) were assessed from
two heavy-duty trucks with and without emission control aftertreatment systems when …

Comparative study of diesel and biodiesel exhausts on lung oxidative stress and genotoxicity in rats

T Douki, C Corbière, D Preterre, PJ Martin… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The contribution of diesel exhaust to atmospheric pollution is a major concern for public
health, especially in terms of occurrence of lung cancers. The present study aimed at …

Effects of oxygenated fuel blends on the composition of size-segregated engine-out diesel particulate emissions and on the toxicity of quasi-ultrafine particles

ZH Zhang, R Balasubramanian - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Reformulation of petroleum diesel through its blending with various oxygenated fuels has
been explored for reducing emissions of diesel particulate matter (DPM). Such oxygenated …

Acute exposure to diesel and sewage biodiesel exhaust causes pulmonary and systemic inflammation in mice

JM de Brito, T Mauad, GF Cavalheiro… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biodiesel is a renewable energy source that reduces particle emission, but few studies have
assessed its effects. To assess the effects of acute inhalation of two doses (600 and 1200 …