Workplace environment and personal exposure of PM and PAHs to workers in natural rubber sheet factories contaminated by wood burning smoke

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-21

  Choosong, Thitiworn ^a   Chomanee, Jiraporn ^b   Tekasakul, Perapong ^b   Tekasakul, Surajit ^b   Otani, Yoshio ^a   Hata, Mitsuhiko ^a   Furuuchi, Masami ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; BREATHING ZONES; CONCENTRATION OF; FACTORY BUILDING; MANUFACTURING PLANT; MASS FRACTION; METAL RECYCLING; NATURAL RUBBER; NATURAL VENTILATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE LIMITS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; POSITIVE EFFECTS; RIBBED SMOKED SHEETS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SINTER PLANTS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATES; THAILAND; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND SPEED; WOOD BURNING; WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS;

CARBON BLACK; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HEALTH RISKS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; ROOFS; RUBBER; RUBBER FACTORIES; SINTERING; VENTILATION;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

BITUMEN; COMBUSTION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; OCCUPATION; PAH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RUBBER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBINE; VENTILATION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

THAILAND;

EID: 77952697978     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2009.05.0031     Document Type: Article

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