Volatile organic compounds : emission, pollution and control / Khaled Chetehouna, editor.

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VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: EMISSION, POLLUTION AND CONTROL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: EMISSION, POLLUTION AND CONTROL; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: PHYSICAL MODELLING OF BIOGENIC VOCS EMISSION AND DISPERSION IN A FOREST STAND; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; THE FOREST SITE AND THE FIELD EXPERIMENTS; THE MODELLED FOREST SITE AND THE WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS; FIELD VERSUS WIND TUNNEL RESULTS; FOOTPRINT EXPERIMENTS IN WIND TUNNEL; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES.

Chapter 2: ESTIMATION OF VOCS EMISSIONS DURING THE WILDLAND FIRES FROM 1995 TO 2009 IN CORSICAABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. METHODS; 3. RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS EMISSIONS OF HEATED MEDITERRANEAN VEGETAL SPECIES; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: CONTRIBUTION OF BIOGENIC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS TO TROPOSPHERIC OZONE FORMATION IN THE PEARL RIVER DELTA REGION OF CHINA; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; EMISSION INVENTORY; REMOTE SENSING; BVOC CHEMISTRY.

FUTURE CHALLENGESREFERENCES; Chapter 5: NATURAL ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FROM THE URBAN FOREST OF THE METROPOLITAN REGION, CHILE: IMPACT ON AIR QUALITY; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES AFFECTING BVOC EMISSIONS; 3. CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS OF BVOCS IN THE ATMOSPHERE; 4. URBAN OZONE AND HUMAN HEALTH AND PLANTS; 5. EMISSION FACTORS FOR BIOGENIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; 6. EMISSIONS INVENTORY; 7. IMPROVING AIR QUALITY IN SANTIAGO, CHILE; 8. BVOCS INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES; REFERENCES.

Chapter 6: LATEST RESULTS ON THE CATALYTIC OXIDATION OF LIGHT ALKANES, AS PROBE VOC MOLECULES, OVER RU-BASED CATALYSTS: EFFECTS OFPHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES ON THE CATALYTIC PERFORMANCESABSTRACT; LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ACRONYMS; INTRODUCTION; RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7: REMOVAL OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS) USING ADSORPTION PROCESS ONTO NATURAL CLAYS; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS; 3. SOURCES AND IMPACTS OF VOCS; 4. CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR VOCS CONTROL; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; INDEX.

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) have anthropogenic and biogenic origins. At the Earth's scale, the natural sources represent a great part of the total VOCs present in the atmosphere but in industrialized regions, anthropogenic ones become the majority due to the various human activities related mainly to chemical industries (liquid fuels, solvents, thinners, detergents, degreasers, cleaners and lubricants). Almost all VOCs have effects on human health and many of them are even carcinogenic. It is also known that the VOCs can affect the central nervous system and may have mutagenic effects. A.

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