Wildfires have become increasingly prevalent, impacting ecosystems, climate, and human health on a global scale. This review aims to present a comprehensive analysis of current knowledge on the environmental factors a...
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Wildfires have become increasingly prevalent, impacting ecosystems, climate, and human health on a global scale. This review aims to present a comprehensive analysis of current knowledge on the environmental factors and conditions driving wildfires, the characteristics and transport of smoke emissions, along the broader impacts of wildfire smoke on the weather and climate. These impacts include changes in atmospheric radiation, cloud formation, atmospheric circulation, precipitation patterns, and air quality, as well as their effects on land cover, safety, and public health. Wildfire emissions include various pollutants such as particulate matter that alter the Earth's energy balance, reduce air quality, and impact cloud microphysics. Key interactions, such as the direct and indirect effects of smoke aerosols, affect cloud cover and lifetime, precipitation, atmospheric stability, and ultimately induce changes in weather and climate dynamics. Moreover, smoke transport extends the effects of wildfires thousands of kilometers beyond their sources, which reduces agricultural productivity, deteriorates human health, and threatens the environment. Advances in satellite retrievals and modeling techniques have improved the ability to monitor, analyze, and predict these complex interactions. Moreover, this review highlights the critical need for advancing research to more precisely quantify and project multi-scale trends in wildfire smoke and its far-reaching impact on public health, safety, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Developing more robust adaptation strategies and resilience measures is essential to effectively mitigate these complex, adverse effects on communities and the environment.
aerosols are present in almost all aspects of everyday life. aerosols affect climate and health and arise in hazardous situations such as industrial accidents. In this study, we examined the generation of microplastic...
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aerosols are present in almost all aspects of everyday life. aerosols affect climate and health and arise in hazardous situations such as industrial accidents. In this study, we examined the generation of microplastic aerosols from polypropylene pipes used in drinking water systems and their dispersion in a simulated accident scenario using wind tunnel modelling. We compared aerosol and gas dispersion from a ground-level point source in a street canyon in a central European town. The results show that 185-nm UVC light generated stable microplastic aerosols (predominantly <1 mu m) from the polypropylene. Although both the aerosol and gas dispersions exhibited recirculation and ventilation regions characteristic of an isolated roughness flow regime, their dispersion patterns differed. Vertically, the main gas dispersion field resembled an ellipse, whereas the main aerosol particles dispersion field resembled an anvil. Horizontally, gas was dispersed primarily perpendicular to the buildings, whereas aerosol particles were dispersed both perpendicular and parallel to the buildings.
The potential harms and benefits of e-cigarettes, or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), have received significant attention from public health and regulatory communities. Such products may provide a reduced ...
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The potential harms and benefits of e-cigarettes, or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), have received significant attention from public health and regulatory communities. Such products may provide a reduced risk means of nicotine delivery for combustible cigarette smokers while being inappropriately appealing to nicotine naive youth. Numerous authors have examined the chemical complexity of aerosols from various open- and closed-system ENDS. This body of literature is reviewed here, with the risks of ENDS aerosol exposure among users evaluated with a margin of exposure (MoE) approach for two non-carcinogens (methylglyoxal, butyraldehyde) and a cancer risk analysis for the carcinogen N-nitrosonornicotine (NNN). We identified 96 relevant papers, including 17, 13, and 5 reporting data for methylglyoxal, butyraldehyde, and NNN, respectively. Using low-end (minimum aerosol concentration, low ENDS use) and high-end (maximum aerosol concentration, high ENDS use) assumptions, estimated doses for methylglyoxal (1.78x 10(-3)-135 mu g/kg-bw/day) and butyraldehyde (1.9x 10(-4)-66.54 mu g/kg-bw/day) corresponded to MoEs of 227-17,200,000 and 271-280,000,000, respectively, using identified points of departure (PoDs). Doses of 9.90x 10(-6)-1.99x 10(-4) mu g/kg-bw/day NNN corresponded to 1.4-28 surplus cancers per 100,000 ENDS users, relative to a NNN-attributable surplus of 7440 per 100,000 cigarette smokers. It was concluded that methylglyoxal and butyraldehyde in ENDS aerosols, while not innocuous, did not present a significant risk of irritant effects among ENDS users. The carcinogenic risks of NNN in ENDS aerosols were reduced, but not eliminated, relative to concentrations reported in combustible cigarette smoke.
The growing prevalence of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, underscores the need for rapid, noninvasive monitoring technologies, as conventional methods are frequently invasive. Exhaled breath aerosol provides a non...
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The growing prevalence of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, underscores the need for rapid, noninvasive monitoring technologies, as conventional methods are frequently invasive. Exhaled breath aerosol provides a noninvasive alternative to blood sampling for glucose monitoring, but its dilute nature demands highly sensitive sensors for micromolar-level detection. This study presents a novel biosensor utilizing a molecularly imprinted polymer designed to selectively target D-glucose molecules from exhaled breath aerosols. The sensor underwent thorough testing across a range of aerosolized glucose concentrations and was validated using exhaled breath condensate (EBC) samples from healthy subjects, utilizing a 3-D printed breathalyzer device. The findings demonstrate a significant correlation between D-glucose levels in EBC (aerosols) and sensor resistance.
The northeastern region of Pakistan (NEP) has experienced increased haze episodes over the past decade, primarily due to enhanced biomass burning activities during the post-monsoon season. Economic growth, urbanizatio...
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The cloud-to-rain process has been proposed as highly temporal, while the in-depth research on this topic in the winter season and the variation due the air pollution remains underexplored in recent studies. On the ba...
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Dental staff are exposed to occupational risks due to the unique diagnosis and treatment processes in dental clinics. It is crucial to implement appropriate ventilation strategies and airflow distribution techniques f...
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Dental staff are exposed to occupational risks due to the unique diagnosis and treatment processes in dental clinics. It is crucial to implement appropriate ventilation strategies and airflow distribution techniques for the reduction of exposure risks. Based on the full-scale experiments and numerical simulation, this study conducted a comparative analysis of airflow distribution, aerosols diffusion and spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of aerosols in a typical dental clinic with three different ventilation strategies and seven different airflow distribution modes (displacement ventilation, stratum ventilation, and five different modes of mixing ventilation) in Wuhan, China. To assess the spatiotemporal characteristics of aerosols accurately, it proposed four indicators including suspension rate, deposition rate, exclusion rate, and inhalation exposure. The results demonstrated that the aerosol exclusion rate exhibited the highest value (64.3 %), while the suspension rate displayed the lowest value (1.8 %). In the dental clinic, employing a mixing ventilation strategy with air supplied and exhausted from the ceiling resulted in the lowest non-dimensional concentration of pollutants in the breathing area. The position of the air exhaust louvre has a significant impact on airflow distribution. The aerosol exclusion rate is higher when the exhaust vent is located on the upper side compared to when it is on the lower side. The maximum aerosol deposition rates are located at the ceiling, floor, and walls, in addition, the deposition rates on the doctor and assistant side is also higher, with the highest being 23.8 pcs/m2 and 20.2 pcs/m2 respectively. Inhalation exposure risk for dental staff generally peaked at t = 60-80 s. Specifically, under stratum ventilation conditions, the doctor experienced their highest exposure risk of 70.2 x 10-10 mu g/kg at t = 60 s, whereas for assistants it occurred at t = 120 s with an exposure risk of 31.9 x 10-10 mu g/kg. Furthe
Inorganic acids, widely used in semiconductor manufacturing processes, have become a concern as improper handling of these acids can have severe environmental impacts. This study investigates the major contamination s...
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Thermal spray coating is an emerging occupational process. Information about the health effects of the aerosols generated is limited. A thermal spray coating exposure system has been developed to perform inhalation st...
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