Evaluation of a high efficiency cabin air (HECA) filtration system for reducing particulate pollutants inside school buses

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3358-3365

  Lee, Eon S ^a   Fung, Cha Chen D ^a   Zhu, Yifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POLLUTION;

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; ARTERIAL ROADWAYS; DRIVING CONDITIONS; FILTRATION SYSTEMS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT LEVELS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

BUSES;

DIESEL FUEL; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

BLACK CARBON; CHILD HEALTH; FILTRATION; MOTORWAY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYPOBARISM; MOTOR VEHICLE; NOISE; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; CHILD; DEVICES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SOOT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MOTOR VEHICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84924991437     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es505419m     Document Type: Article

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