Air-conditioning as a technical solution to protect inhabitants from excessive heat exposure creates the challenge of expanding indoor health effects. While air-conditioning has mostly been applied an improvement living conditions, and environmental problems associated with its use frequently occurs. Therefore, this paper challenges extends existing knowledge on sustainability related smart sys...

Air pollution is the primary environmental cause of death globally. To improve air quality and reduce health impacts, National Emission Ceilings Directive requires Member States European Union to provide Pollution Control Programmes, including emission reduction measures aimed achieve binding commitments for years 2020 2030. Integrated assessment models are pivotal assess pollutants concentrati...

1. introduction: increasing urbanization and industrialization rate in developed and developing countries cities, such as tehran, has led to increased air pollution. todays, the prediction and estimation of air quality parameters in urban regions are important topics in environmental studies due to their effect on human health. measurement of air quality are widely used in air quality control p...

Today one of the emerging issues in aviation is the assessment, control and reduction of air emissions. In particular airports are increasingly scrutinized for accountability of air emissions contributions to the local and regional air quality. The tasks associated with quantifying air emissions contributions are difficult due to the inconsistency of airport sizes, geographic locations, variabl...

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Air & Waste Management Association, this review examines the history of air quality management (AQM) in the United States over the last century, with an emphasis on the ambient standards programs established by the landmark 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments. The current CAA system is a hybrid of several distinct air pollution control philosophies...

Surveillance and Control of air quality in an industrial site close to urban areas in Arganda del Rey (Madrid), by means of a flexible, open and configurable net. * SURVEILLANCE AND MESSAGES DECISION: Through a set of local units distributed at the industrial site that process sensor signals following a user protocol and make decisions on: 1) signals acquisition and 2) alarm messages transmissi...