Air pollution monitoring using emission inventories combined with the moss bag approach

Iodice, Paolo; Adamo, Paola; Capozzi, Fiore; Palma, A. Di; Senatore, Adolfo; Spagnuolo, Valeria; Giordano, Simonetta

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.034

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“…At the European level, the atmospheric emission inventories are built in compliance with CORINAIR (COoRdination INformation AIR) methodology, which provides guidance on estimating emissions from both anthropogenic and natural emission sources [14]. The activities responsible for the emissions were classified in sectors according to the Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution codes (SNAP version 1997) [15][16].…”

Section: Total Emissions Of Air Pollutantsmentioning

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“…Thus, we examined local variables regarding driving patterns, vehicle fleets, average trips, average speed and fuel consumption. To evaluate in detail the environmental impact of road transport in the study area, the selection and gathering of these basic input data involved the following organizations and societies: the Italian Institute of Statistics; the Italian Ministry of Transport and Navigation; the Italian Automotive Association, which provided the number of registered vehicles and their composition at municipality level [24]; the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research [25]; the Italian Association of Oil Companies, which provided the fuel sold for each Italian province in its annual oil market bulletins [16]. The base year for the evaluation in the emission inventory was 2012.…”

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An Integrated Approach for the Environmental Characterization of a Wide Area Potentially Contaminated (Southern Italy)

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Albanese²,

Boccia³

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This paper deals with the environmental characterization of a large and densely populated area, with a poor reputation for contamination, considering the contribution of environmental features (air, soil, soil hydraulic and groundwater) and the potential effects on human health. The use of Geographic Information System (GIS) has made possible a georeferenced inventory and, by overlaying environmental information, an operational synthesis of comprehensive environmental conditions. The cumulative effects on environmental features were evaluated, taking into account superposition effects, by means of the spatial multicriteria decision analysis (S-MCDA). The application of the S-MCDA for converging the combination of heterogeneous factors, related to soil, land and water, deeply studied by heterogeneous groups of experts, constitutes the novelty of the paper. The results confirmed an overall higher potential of exposure to contaminants in the environment and higher mortality rates in the study area for some tumours, but hospital admissions for tumours were generally similar to the regional trend. Besides, mortality data may be strictly dependent on the poor socioeconomic conditions, quality of therapy and a lack of welfare in the area relative to the rest of Italy. Finally, as regards the possible relationship between presence of contaminants in the environment and health conditions of the population no definite conclusions can be drawn, although the present study encourages the use of the new proposed methods, that increase the possibilities for studying the combined effect of more environmental factors.

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Section: Total Emissions Of Air Pollutantsmentioning

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Section: Total Emissions Of Air Pollutantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Integrated Approach for the Environmental Characterization of a Wide Area Potentially Contaminated (Southern Italy)

Ducci¹,

Albanese²,

Boccia³

et al. 2017

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“…The treatment with EDTA, a well-known chelating agent, useful to decrease metal concentrations in field mosses and to increase their cation exchange capability before the exposure (e.g. Lodenius and Tulisalo, 1984;Ferreira et al, 2009;Chen et al, 2015;Iodice et al, 2016), had no evident effect on the clone elemental composition, likely in virtue of the already very low element concentrations in the biomaterial. On the other hand, the EDTA washing added Na and induced morphological damages to the moss clone, making its shoots and leaves very fragile (see SEM micrographs in Fig.…”

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“…Air pollution monitoring and management has been one of the main European scientific and political concerns since the Mosses, either used as native species or as transplants (moss bags), can accumulate airborne inorganic and organic pollutants, representing a cost effective and reliable tool for air monitoring, also combined with automatic devices and emission inventories (Adamo et al, 2008a;Spagnuolo et al, 2013;Harmens et al, 2015;Iodice et al, 2016). The biomonitoring with moss bags allows to evaluate the atmospheric deposition of persistent air pollutants in a well-constrained time period, in areas lacking native species such as urban and industrial environments.…”

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“…The use of chelating agents such as EDTA enhances the release of metals bound to cation exchange sites (Lodenius and Tulisalo, 1984). EDTA washing in moss transplants decreases element content in pre-exposure biomaterial, making it more sensitive to environmental pollution inputs (Iodice et al, 2016). In the framework of the FP7 European project Mossclone, we firstly investigated the surface properties related to metal accumulation by four devitalized moss species widely used for biomonitoring purposes (González and Pokrovsky, 2014).…”

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Molecular and chemical characterization of a Sphagnum palustre clone: Key steps towards a standardized and sustainable moss bag technique

Palma

Pardo

Spagnuolo

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a b s t r a c tThis work aimed to define the molecular and chemical signature of a S. palustre clone developed in the framework of the EU-FP7 Mossclone project to improve the standardization and reliability of the mossbag technique. The molecular characterization was performed by a set of DNA molecular markers (RAPD, ISJ, PCR-RFLP, sequencing and microsatellites) to tag the clone produced within the project. Molecular characterization also provided new DNA markers that can be applied in systematic analyses of Sphagnum, and gave new insights to implement well established techniques. The elemental composition of the clone was measured by ICP-MS analysis of 54 major and trace elements, with and without commonly applied pre-exposure treatments (oven devitalization and EDTA washing). Concentrations of almost all analyzed elements were significantly lower (from 10 to 100 times) in the clone than in conspecific field moss, apart from some elements (K, Mo, P and Na) deriving from the culture medium or EDTA treatment. Oven devitalization and EDTA washing did not significantly affect the clone composition. A comparison between the elemental composition of the clone with that of naturally growing Sphagnum species proved the particularly low elemental content of the clone. Therefore, in view of a rigorously standardized moss-bag protocol for the monitoring of persistent atmospheric pollutants, the use of the S. palustre clone, a biomaterial with very low and constant element composition, and homogenous morphological characteristics is strongly recommended.

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Advantages of ethanol–gasoline blends as fuel substitute for last generation Si engines

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Senatore

Langella

et al. 2017

Env Prog and Sustain Energy

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The stringent international emission legislations and increasing demands for lesser fuel consumption and air pollutant emissions in urban environment necessitate substantial and effective plans to improve combustion efficiency of anthropogenic activities. For this reason, all the industrialized countries are energetically developing alternative fuel sources in order to reduce the harmful air emissions and to decrease the necessity of fossil fuel. In this context, ethanol can be used as an alternative fuel or an additive of gasoline owing to many advantages, above all the possibility to rise oxygen amount in the fuel (so reducing CO and HC exhaust emissions) and to stem the depletion of fossil fuels. Many studies have been carried out to evaluate the effects of ethanol combined with gasoline on engine performance and exhaust emissions. This article analyze prospect of fuel ethanol as an effective gasoline substitute, and examines comparative physicochemical properties of ethanol and gasoline and their effect on emissive behavior of SI engines. This article, then, creates a fundamental basis for further discussions and experimental activities on the last generation SI engines fuelled with ethanol/gasoline‐blended fuels. © 2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 36: 1173–1179, 2017

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Air pollution monitoring using emission inventories combined with the moss bag approach

Cited by 67 publications

References 18 publications

An Integrated Approach for the Environmental Characterization of a Wide Area Potentially Contaminated (Southern Italy)

An Integrated Approach for the Environmental Characterization of a Wide Area Potentially Contaminated (Southern Italy)

Molecular and chemical characterization of a Sphagnum palustre clone: Key steps towards a standardized and sustainable moss bag technique

Advantages of ethanol–gasoline blends as fuel substitute for last generation Si engines

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