Platinum and palladium emissions from on-road vehicles in the Kaisermühlen tunnel (Vienna, Austria)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4938-4945

  Limbeck, Andreas ^a   Puls, Christoph ^a   Handler, Markus ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; TUNNELS; VEHICLES;

EMISSION RATES; PALLADIUM EMISSIONS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

PALLADIUM; PLATINUM;

AEROSOLS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PALLADIUM; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PLATINUM; TUNNELS; VEHICLES;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; AUSTRIA; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); INHALATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SAMPLING; TRAFFIC;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AUSTRIA; MOTOR VEHICLES; PALLADIUM; PARTICLE SIZE; PLATINUM; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; KAISERMUHLEN TUNNEL; VIENNA;

EID: 34547158092     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062675t     Document Type: Article

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