Volume 83 (2023), Issue 09-10

The method of polarity profiles is used to determine pleasant definitely facility odours and is prescribed as a method for the hedonic classification of facility odours in Annex 7 of the Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control (TA Luft 2021)....

Endotoxin activity determination is a common tool and a surrogate marker for bioaerosol assessment and is used at workplaces especially for this purpose. The reliability of the methods used for quantification in airborne dust samples is important...

The massive decline of air traffic in consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic allowed a detailed analysis of aviation induced noise and particularly air pollution caused by kerosene combustion. As expected, aircraft noise is reduced significantly...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of particular relevance for occupational safety and environmental protection due to their ubiquitous occurrence in everyday life and at various workplaces and their persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic...

The German Weather Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst) has published a report which describes methods for determining the effective roughness length from wind measurements, which are very efficient according to the current state of investigations....

This contribution provides an insight into the current course „Air Quality Modelling“ of the Master‘s course Environmental Engineering at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In addition to a brief introduction to the didactic concept, the various...