Application of fault tree approach for the causation mechanism of urban haze in Beijing-Considering the risk events related with exhausts of coal combustion

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 544, Issue , 2016, Pages 1128-1135

  Huang, Weiqing ^a   Fan, Hongbo ^a   Qiu, Yongfu ^a   Cheng, Zhiyu ^a   Qian, Yu ^b  

^a DONGGUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Causation mechanism; Coal combustion; Fault tree analysis; Haze

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COAL; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISKS;

COMBUSTION EXHAUSTS; CRITICAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION PROBLEM; HAZE; IMPORTANCE DEGREES; MECHANISM ANALYSIS; MINIMAL CUT SETS; QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

COAL COMBUSTION;

COAL; COMBUSTION; HAZE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHINA; COAL COMBUSTION EXHAUST; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXHAUST GAS; HAZE; HEALTH HAZARD; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; URBAN AREA; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

AIR POLLUTANT; COAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BEIJING; COAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84956904789     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.009     Document Type: Article

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