Novel mobile electronic-nose (e-nose) devices and algorithms capable of real-time detection of industrial and municipal pollutants, released from point-sources, recently have been developed by scientists worldwide that are useful for monitoring specific environmental-pollutant levels for enforcement and implementation of effective pollution-abatement programs. E-nose devices are ideal instrumen...

The potential of microalgae as a biomass feedstock for biofuels, bioproducts and as a technological solution for CO(2) fixation is subject to intense academic and industrial researches. However, current microalgal mass culture technologies have failed to produce bulk volume of microalgal biomass at low cost, because the contaminations of biological pollutants become a big constraint in mass cul...

The industrial sector is a major contributor to resource consumption and environmental pollution in China. The energy-intensive industrial development and energy structure are dominated by coal, which has produced an enormous amount of industrial pollutants in China, and put great pressure on the ecological environment. Hence, improving the performance of industrial green development (PIGD) has...

This article extends environmental risk perception research by exploring how potential health risk from exposure to industrial and vehicular air pollutants, as well as other contextual and socio-demographic factors, influence racial/ethnic differences in air pollution health risk perception. Our study site is the Greater Houston metropolitan area, Texas, USA-a racially/ethnically diverse area f...

In Industrial complex, major air pollutants like SO2, NOx, SPM, RPM and CO concentrations were standardised. Some site specific air pollutants like fluoride, H2S, methyl mercaptan, hydrogen chloride, vinyl chloride, etc., were also emitted from industries. Methyl mercaptan is a site specific air pollutant in SIPCOT Industrial complex, Cuddalore, TamilNadu. The presence of methyl mercaptan in th...

various industrial processes with a huge variety of products, materials and compounds create different kinds of pollution for human beings, so that the identification of environmental pollutants resulting from industrial units’ activities, especially in water resources seems necessary. the aim of this paper is to estimate the role of industrial units in contaminating water resources, through us...

Many industrial activities utilize organic compounds as a key chemical in organic synthesis of special chemicals such as, synthetic resins, paper products, medicinal products, drugs, dying and others. Different chemical processes, most of them based in oxidation-reduction reactions, are being applied. Processes such as chlorination, ozonation, UV irradiation, electrochemical treatments and proc...

Many international efforts have been spent to eliminate and/or reduce the emissions and discharges of a wide range of pollutants that have persisted in the environment as well as living organisms [1]. These pollutants are known as a persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Contamination from POPs is a pervasive global problem that urgently demands a global solution [2]. These chemicals include org...

While emissions of pollutants from conventional sources, such as industrial and thermal processes, have been in decline over the last two decades, fires have become major sources for the emission of several contaminants. This review summarises chemical mechanisms pertinent to the formation of prominent pollutants, such as NOx, HCN, HCl, soot, and trace species, such as PCDD/Fs (dioxins). We com...