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A review of some Specific Air Pollutants and its exposure related to Human Health

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of Integrated Science Education and Research (DISER) Institute of Science, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan-731235, Birbhum, West Bengal, INDIA
  • 2Department of Environmental Studies, Institute of Science, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan-731235, Birbhum, West Bengal, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Environment Sci., Volume 4, Issue (9), Pages 63-68, September,22 (2015)

Abstract

Air pollution is one of the extremely serious problem now a day, primarily due to development of many metropolitan cities. A large number of urban areas and growing industries resulted air pollution threats ranging from local to global. Recent year have seen an increasing number of air pollution exposure studies by different researcher. In this article, air pollutant and its health impact studies carried out in many countries are reviewed extensively. These pollutant sources includes power plants, industrial units, vehicular traffic, biomass burning, which generate particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), Sulphur dioxide (SO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), ammonia (NH), ozone (O), Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) etc. The present review deals with the major air pollutants and their impacts on human health. This paper provides easily understandable and useable information to the general people especially to the people affected by the air pollutants in particular.

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