Indoor exposure to respirable particulate matter and particulate-phase PAHs in rural homes in North India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 170, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 491-497

  Ansari, Furquan Ahmad ^a   Khan, Altaf Husain ^a   Patel, Devendra Kumar ^a   Siddiqui, Huma ^a   Sharma, Shachi ^a   Ashquin, Mohammad ^a   Ahmad, Iqbal ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Biomass fuels; Indoor pollution; PAHs; PM10; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS FUELS; INDOOR POLLUTION; PAHS; PM10; PM2.5;

FUELS; HYDROCARBONS; POLLUTION;

BIOMASS;

BIOFUEL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FUEL; INDOOR AIR; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RURAL POPULATION;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INDIA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INHALATION; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; WOODY PLANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BIOFUELS; COOKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC;

INDIA;

EID: 77957679829     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1249-2     Document Type: Article

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