Air pollution XV : [proceedings of the Fifteenth international conference on modelling, monitoring and management of air pollution, Algarve, Portugal, 2007

Air pollution represents one of the most challenging issues that humankind is facing. With the economic growth of emerging countries leading to an increase in the demand for energy, the prevention of air deterioration by means of controlling atmospheric emission has become an urgent task. The mitigation and strategies for traditional, but persistent air pollution problems, are also becoming an ever more important issue. Science has a crucial role to play in the anticipation, comprehension and mitigation of atmospheric pollution phenomena. However, the need for the general population to have a diligent awareness in the process of implementing policies is fundamental towards the success of legislative efforts. With papers from the Fifteenth Annual International Conference on the Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, this volume contains latest developments in aspects like, aerosols and particles, regional air pollution, air pollution modelling, air quality management, climate change and air pollution, emission studies, indoor pollution and monitoring and laboratory studies. Cover 1 Air Pollution XV 2 Copyright Page 9 Preface 10 Contents 12 Introduction 18 Fifty years air pollution research and policy in the EU 20 Section 1: Air pollution in Portugal 30 Air pollution and child respiratory diseases: the Viseu case study, Portugal 32 Application of TAPM to predict photochemical air pollution over Portugal 42 Evaluating ozone spatial distribution in Portugal using passive samplers 52 Composition and source apportionment of atmospheric aerosols in Portugal during the 2003 summer intense forest fire period 62 Influence of traffic on the elemental composition of PM10 and PM2.5 in Oporto region 76 Section 2: Air pollution modelling 86 Modelling of carbon monoxide dispersion along roads with the use of the finite element method 88 Air velocity and pollutant profiles in Krakow 96 Optimizing the prediction models of the air quality state in cities 106 Evaluation of industrial sources' contribution to PM10 concentrations over a coastal area 116 A neural network based model to forecast hourly ozone levels in rural areas in the Basque Country 126 Satellite imagery used in constructing emission maps for air quality modelling in the Dubai-Sharjah (UAE) region 136 A distributed computing solution for CALPUFF 146 Section 3: Air quality management 152 Local scale vehicles pollution study in the absence of sufficient data: the case of the city of Thessaloniki 154 Barriers and opportunities to successful local air quality management consultation in England 164 Www.airqualitynow.eu, a common website and air quality indices to compare cities across Europe 174 Air quality management in Auckland, New Zealand 186 Simplified reading of one-year air pollution: ranking of chemical and physical variables 198 SOx emission reduction in the ceramic industry: BAT and beyond 208 Pollutants site ratio as appointment of highway, industrial and farming sources 218 Section 4: Emission studies 228 Decreasing greenhouse effect in agriculture using biodiesel - when green may be enough 230 Trends and sources identification of non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) concentration in rural areas in France 240 Emission inventory for an urban area: construction and use 250 Computing mobile emissions for the Montreal area 260 Renewable energy impact in reducing greenhouse gas emissions at local scale: the case study of South Tuscany geothermal fields 270 Wood processing as a source of terpene emissions compared to natural sources 280 Measuring fugitive emission in the printing sector as a verification of the solvent management plan according to the EU Solvent Directive 290 Chemical processes effect on ambient air quality: modelling and primary/secondary pollutants monitoring study 298 Air quality in vicinity of a government school in Kuwait 308 Mapping anthropogenic B(a)P releases in the Great Lakes Basin 318 Traffic pollutant emissions in Barreiro city 328 Source apportionment of VOC in 3 French sites by CMB and PMF models and critical analysis 338 Simulation of fuel consumption and emissions in typical traffic circumstances in Belgium 348 Modelling vehicles kinematics and parking processes relevance on pollutant emissions in the city of Florence 358 Section 5: Monitoring and laboratory studies 368 Biological monitoring - the useful method for estimation of air and environment quality 370 Ambient air quality monitoring in southern Kuwait 380 Characterization of BTEX sources in a medium-size city by concentration statistical analysis and GIS technique 390 Potentialities of Vis-NIR spectroradiometry for mapping traffic emissions in urban environments 398 A pilot investigation into the potential of mineral magnetic measurements as a proxy for urban roadside particulate pollution 408 Trends in ozone levels and identification of visible injuries on agricultural crops in areas in the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico Valley 418 A method for the characterisation of ambient dust: geochemical analyses of directional sticky pad dust samples 430 NOx adsorbent formulation research by uniform design 446 Effects of process changes on concentrations of individual malodorous sulphur compounds in ambient air near a Kraft pulp plant in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 454 Odour studies and health risk assessment: two complementary approaches in response to residents' complaints 466 Atmospheric volatile organic compounds in a Portuguese mountain region 472 Section 6: Aerosols and particles 482 PM and NO2 at urban sites with different traffic exposure: curb site measurements in Flemish cities 484 Human exposure against particles: the indoor-outdoor problem 494 Size distribution of commuters' exposure to airborne particulate matter in buses in the UK 504 A comparison between aerosols modelled and measured by AERONET network emitted by vegetation fires over Iberian Peninsula 514 Generation of monodisperse aerosols through condensation nuclei control 522 Assessment of particle pollution in an industrial area in Kuwait 530 Identification of particulate matter and vitreous fibres in the atmosphere of a megacity 540 Section 7: Climate change and air pollution 548 Global climate change - the technology challenge 550 CDM project approval and evaluation criteria: comparative study of Morocco and South Africa 570 First investigations on gas-phase mercury in two Italian cities 580 Section 8: Indoor pollution 586 Indoor air quality in Portugal: technical, institutional and policy challenges in the implementation of the directive on the energy performance of buildings (work in progress) 588 Identification and evaluation of the volatile organic compounds in working environment areas at a material recycling facility 596 Gas phase photocatalytic oxidation of VOC using TiO2-containing paint: influence of NO and relative humidity 602 Author Index 612 A 612 B 612 C 612 D 612 E 612 F 612 G 613 H 613 I 613 J 613 K 613 L 613 M 613 N 613 O 614 P 614 R 614 S 614 T 614 V 614 W 614 Y 614 Z 614 Constitutes the proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring, and Management of Air Pollution. This title contains the developments in aspects like, aerosols and particles, regional air pollution, air pollution modelling, air quality management, climate change and air pollution, emission studies, and others.