Air pollution in residential areas from wood-fired heating

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 749-757

  Aynul Bari, Md ^a   Baumbach, Günter ^a   Kuch, Bertram ^a   Scheffknecht, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetosyringone; Domestic heating; Inversion; PAHs; PM 10; Syringaldehyde; Wood combustion

Indexed keywords

ACETOSYRINGONE; DOMESTIC HEATING; INVERSION; PAHS; SYRINGALDEHYDE; WOOD COMBUSTION;

AIR QUALITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HARDWOODS; HEATING; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLLUTION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMBUSTION;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMBUSTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEATING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PAH; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WOOD;

AIR QUALITY; CARCINOGENS; COMBUSTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HARDWOODS; HEATING; HYDROCARBONS; INVERSION; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOOD;

GERMANY;

EID: 80053301925     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2010.09.0079     Document Type: Article

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