Investigation of qualitative and quantitative of volatile organic com-pounds of ambient air in the Mahshahr Petrochemical Complex in 2009

Journal of Research in Health Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-74

  Moghadam, Rohollah Maghsoodi ^a   Bahrami, Abdulrahman ^b   Ghorbani, Farshid ^b   Mahjub, Hossein ^b   Malaki, Dariush ^c  

^a ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Bandar e Imam Khomeini of Mahshahr Petrochemical Special Economic Zone   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air sampling; Iran; Petrochemical; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; XYLENE; AIR POLLUTANT; PETROLEUM;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; IRAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; WIND; WINTER; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; HUMANS; IRAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROLEUM; SEASONS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84879221425     PISSN: 16822765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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