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CEST Proceedings are published under the ISSN 2944-9820.

The limitation of the methane (CH4) emission in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin as a result of the Polish Mining Group closing program.

Dreger M.

Topic:

Air pollution

Hard coal mining is responsible for 9% of the worldwide methane emission to the atmosphere. Methane is the second strongest greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, but its radiative power is 25-30 times stronger than the radiative power of CO2 .In the Polish reality, hard coal mining is one of the...Read more

Keywords:

Methane emission, hard coal mining, the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB), the greenhouse effect, air pollution

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00035

Paper ID:

cest2021_00035

Performance Evaluation of a Portable and Cost-effective Atmospheric Particulate Matter Monitor

(Corresponding) Bezantakos S., Papaconstantinou R., Hadjigeorgiou N., Marinos C., Biskos G.

Topic:

Air pollution

Low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors offer high potentials in air quality monitoring. Their performance, however, strongly depends upon the materials used, their design and on the sampling and operational conditions. In this work we evaluate the performance of the latest Alphasense PM sensors...Read more

Keywords:

Low cost PM sensors; Air quality; Indoor/Outdoor exposure

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00411

Paper ID:

cest2021_00411

Sniffing VOCs emitted by books

Barlet C., Stylianou M., Andreou C., (Corresponding) Agapiou A.

Topic:

Air pollution

Headspace solid-phase micro extraction-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC/MS) was performed for the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from books. Towards this, books of different ages were examined (old = 50-300 years and new = 2-25 years) using a CAR/PDMS fiber...Read more

Keywords:

VOCs; HS-SPME-GC/MS; books; indoor air; degradation.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00505

Paper ID:

cest2021_00505

A versatile decision-support tool to assess air quality and health effects

(Corresponding) Relvas H., Ferreira J., Lopes D., Rafael S., Almeida S., Diapouli E., Miranda A.

Topic:

Air pollution

This work presents a web-based policy tool for the development of effective particulate matter (PM) pollution strategies. The tool is based on an integrated modelling approach, from emissions to health effects, which allows testing measures to improve air quality, focused on PM2.5 levels, and...Read more

Keywords:

Air quality modelling, Artificial Neural Networks, Integrated Assessment Model, PM2.5, Athens

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00532

Paper ID:

cest2021_00532

EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF THE COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS MEASURES ON THE AIR QUALITY AS A TOOL TO IMPLEMENT PREVENTION STRATEGIES

Oliva G., (Corresponding) Zarra T., Senatore V., Giaquinto D., Galang M., Belgiorno V., Naddeo V.

Topic:

Air pollution

The World Health Organization (WHO) at the end of January 2020 declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). At the end of March 2020, the epidemic turned into the pandemic. The consequent stringent lockdown measures adopted to mitigate the spread of the virus generated huge...Read more

Keywords:

air quality, covid, policy-makers, impact, pollutants

Paper ID:

cest2021_00576

Assessment of particulate pollution in a medium sized Greek city - the effect of biomass burning and COVID-19 lockdown

(Corresponding) Diamanti V., Triantafyllou A., Garas S.

Topic:

Air pollution

Airborne particulate matter (PM) with an aerodynamic diameter of 10μm or less has severe negative effects on human health. In many European urban environments, small residential heating appliances contribute significantly to the degradation of air quality by generating a substantial quantity of PM...Read more

Keywords:

PM2.5/PM10, PM1/PM2.5, urban air quality, biomass burning

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00588

Paper ID:

cest2021_00588

An integrated and comprehensive tool to assess urban mobility strategies

(Corresponding) Huertas J., Huertas M.

Topic:

Air pollution

Transport planning is a challenging topic to be addressed in urban areas in order to create sustainable cities, due to the adverse health effects, noise and congestions generated by the transport sector. Therefore, policymakers require technical tools that allow to take regulatory transport...Read more

Keywords:

sustainable mobility, health impact, air pollution

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00660

Paper ID:

cest2021_00660

Technology hybridization for real time particulate matter monitoring

(Corresponding) Louat J., Thaury C., Ben Daoud A., Serge A.

Topic:

Air pollution

While the monitoring and management of air pollution remains a challenge at a regional level, it also becomes more and more sensitive at very local scale. Both, as hot spot sources, can be very localized, but vulnerable population (in schools, hospital…) due to fluidic effect, especially in cities...Read more

Keywords:

PM10, PM2.5, monitoring, air quality, micro-sensors, MP101M, hybridization

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00673

Paper ID:

cest2021_00673

Design of Road-Side Barriers to Mitigate Air Pollution near Roads

(Corresponding) Huertas J., Aguirre J., Lopez O., Lopez C.

Topic:

Air pollution

The effects of using solid barriers on the dispersion of air pollutants emitted from the traffic of vehicles on roads located over flat areas were quantified, aiming to identify the geometry that maximizes the mitigation effect of air pollution near the road at the lowest barrier cost. Toward that...Read more

Keywords:

CFD; near road emissions; solid barriers; gas-phase pollutants; air pollution mitigation

Paper ID:

cest2021_00680

Evaluation of atmospheric pollutants dispersion using CFD numerical models

Fernández Pacheco V., (Corresponding) Antuña Yudego E., Suárez López M., Carús Candás J., Álvarez Álvarez E.

Topic:

Air pollution

This paper describes the approach of studying air pollution by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models. It also includes a report of a series of investigations performed in order to illustrate the potential of such models with the aim to give a solution to the dispersion to resolve the...Read more

Keywords:

Air Quality, CFD, Pollution, Pollutant dispersion.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30955/gnc2021.00708

Paper ID:

cest2021_00708