Exceedance of air quality standards resulting from pyro-metallurgical production of copper: A case study, Bor (Eastern Serbia)

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1989-1998

  Serbula, Snezana M ^a   Kalinovic, Tanja S ^a   Kalinovic, Jelena V ^a   Ilic, Ana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Arsenic; Mining metallurgical processes

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARSENIC; COPPER; COPPER SMELTING; HEALTH RISKS; LINEAR REGRESSION; METALLURGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COPPER PRODUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; METALLURGICAL PROCESS; METALLURGICAL PRODUCTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; STEPWISE MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION;

AIR QUALITY STANDARDS;

AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; GUST; HEALTH RISK; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; METALLURGY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STANDARD (REGULATION); SULFUR DIOXIDE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BOR; SERBIA;

EID: 84874933308     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1886-6     Document Type: Article

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