Characteristics of hazardous airborne dust around an Indian surface coal mining area

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 130, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 17-25

  Ghose, Mrinal K ^a   Majee, S R ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Ambient; Coking coal; Fugitive; Overburden; Respirable; Work zone

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; COAL MINES; COKING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AIR-BORNE DUST; ANIONIC CONCCENTRATION; WORK ZONE;

MINE DUST;

BENZENE; CHLORIDE ION; NITRATE; SULFATE;

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COAL MINING; DUST; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION CONTROL; RESPIRATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COAL MINING; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; INDIA; SEASONS;

ASIA; BIHAR; EURASIA; INDIA; JHARIA COALFIELD; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34249912648     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9448-6     Document Type: Article

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