A5059906975- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Biodiesel Production and Applications
- Advanced oxidation water treatment
- Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
- Fuel Cells and Related Materials
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Heavy metals in environment
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Radioactive element chemistry and processing
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- Glass properties and applications
- Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques
- Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
2013-2024
MD Precision (Canada)
2024
Northwestern Polytechnical University
2023
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2011
University of Michigan
2011
Temple University
2011
Clarkson University
2002-2009
University of Khartoum
2009
National Cheng Kung University
2003-2008
National Taipei University of Technology
2008
Fine particles emitted from vehicles have adverse health effects because of their sizes and chemical compositions. Therefore, this study attempted to characterize the metals in nano (0.010 < Dp 0.056 μm), ultrafine (Dp 0.1 fine 2.5 coarse (2.5 10 μm) collected near a busy road using micro-orifice uniform deposition impactor (MOUDI) Nano-MOUDI. The were found contain more traffic-related (Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, Ba, Ni) than other sizes, although crustal accounted for over 90% all particulate metals....
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) bound in nano/ultrafine particles from vehicle emissions may cause adverse health effects. However, little is known about the characteristics of nanoparticle-bound PAHs and PAH-associated carcinogenic potency/cytotoxicity; therefore, traffic-related were collected this study using a micro-orifice uniform deposition impactor (MOUDI) nano-MOUDI. For PM0.056−18, difference size-distribution particulate total-PAHs between non-after-rain after-rain samples...
This work investigated the vitrification of hazardous electroplating sludge containing 140 mg/g Cr with/without bottom ash or cullet conditioning to lower specimens' basicities 0.97−1.17 0.18−0.23, respectively. The was found enhance smooth/glassy appearance slags but no ingot obtained. >98% retained in vitrified slags. Cr2O3 dominated crystalline structure for slag from sludge, this domination gradually shifted Fe2SiO4/Fe3O4/SiO2 SiO2 with increasing addition into Compared raw...
Valuable metal materials can be recovered from spent nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries. However, little attention has been paid to the compositions of individual components NiMH batteries, although this is important for selection appropriate recycling process. In study, batteries were manually disassembled identify and characterize metals in each these. A preliminary economic analysis was also conducted evaluate recovery valuable using thermal melting versus simple mechanical separation....
Only few studies have focused on organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in breast milk and the related health risks for women Taiwan. Our goal is to examine OCPs their associations with female reproductive function (infertility, gynecological diseases, menstruation characteristics) as well correlation sociodemographic parameters (age, pre-pregnant body mass index (BMI), annual incomes, population, birth year, parity) dietary habit. The samples were collected southern Taiwan (n = 68) from 2013 2016...
Previous studies have demonstrated that organochlorine pesticide (OCP) exposure has a negative impact on the neurological function of infants. Only few reports investigated thyroid and growth hormones their relationship to neurodevelopment after human OCPs, especially in case Our goal was determine whether breastmilk OCP residues were associated with impacts and/or alterations infants among specific southern Taiwanese mother–breastfed infant pairs. subjects (n = 55 pairs) recruited from...
This study explores the effects of an Asian dust storm (ADS) and Southeast biomass burning on composition atmospheric aerosols in coastal area southern Taiwan spring 2010. Coarse fine particles were collected using two manual dichotomous samplers (Dichots) that equipped with Teflon Quartz filters. The results reveal concentrations PM10 PM2.5 ADS period about twice those before after this. More than half water-soluble ions coarse (PM2.5–10) Cl– Na+ (sea salt), while 70% SO42– NH4+ (secondary...
Abstract In this study, we investigated the transformation of hazardous residues, including fly ash, silica gel, bottom and sludge, from a laboratory waste incineration system at Sustainable Environment Research Center into compressed concrete paving units (CCPU). The raw ash was washed twice with water to remove Cl − . secondary (SWFA) then mixed sludge using various formulations designed through response surface methodology (RSM) in Design Expert 8.0.6 software. materials were subsequently...
Research has been focused on the health hazards of ambient PM2.5 related to humans. Many toxicity assessments using in vitro studies have PM2.5-bounded hazardous pollutants. However, assessment by vivo allow for better observation overall effects exposure entire organisms, making relevant. The toxic outdoor PM2.5, collected from National Pingtung University Science and Technology (NPUST) Linluo Junior High School (LJHS), Pingtung, Taiwan, nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) were...
Vitrification was used to convert hazardous metal-bearing fly ash from municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration into useful products in this work. In addition volume/mass reduction, some parameters such as basicity, metal leachability, density, porosity, water absorption, and compressive strength of the slags ingots vitrified ash/additive (bottom cullet) mixtures (at 1450 °C for 1.5 h) were investigated. The more bottom or cullet added ash, lower specimen leading a amorphous glassy matrix....
This study investigates distributions of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) congeners in the exhaust gases gasoline- diesel-fueled vehicles. 6 sport utility vehicles (SUVs), diesel passenger (DPVs), 3 heavy duty vehicle (HDDV) were examined using chassis dynamometer tests for measuring vehicular dioxin emissions. The mean PCDD/F I-TEQ emission factors 0.101, 0.0688 0.912 ng I-TEQ/km SUVs, DPVs HDDV, respectively. Highly chlorinated dominated both gaseous particulate...
This study investigated five persistent organic pollutants (polychlorinated and polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs/PBDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs/PBDFs), biphenyls (PCBs/PBBs), diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)) in ash collected from several units (super heater (SH), heat economizer (HE), semi-dryer absorber (SDA), bag-house filter (BF), fly pit (FAP), bottom (BA) discharger) of a large-scale municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI). Data on levels emission factors the target compounds different...
This study focuses on the electrochemical oxidation of tetracycline hydrochloride (TC-HCl) a boron-doped diamond (BDD) anode under different operating parameters (current density, temperature, TC initial concentration, and sample matrix). For comparison, commercial Pt planar electrode self-prepared PbO2 were also tested. According to cyclic voltammetric analysis, BDD was electrochemically irreversible. The degradation efficiency increased with increasing current density or but decreased...