Title :
Measurement of air quality of Ulaanbaatar City, Mongolia
Author :
Morimo, Ryuichi ; Hamada, Eisuke ; Munkhbaatar, Punsantsogvoo ; Dash, Ilchgerel ; Shimotsu, Yoshihiro ; Iwakiri, Yuta ; Kawasoe, Masaharu
Author_Institution :
Miyakonojo Nat. Coll. of Technol., Miyazaki
Abstract :
Air pollution in Mongolian capital city Ulaanbaatar causes many problems among citizens. There were determined some volatile organic compounds like 1, 3-butadiene, chloroform, benzene, toluene and xylenes and heavy metals in air and exhaust gases of some vehicles, used in Ulaanbaatar city. The study was conducted in the frame of MUST- MNCTpsilas joint project on ldquoInfluence of global warming to the Mongolian environmentrdquo.
Keywords :
air pollution; atmospheric composition; 1,3-butadiene; MUST- MNCT joint project; Mongolian environment; Ulaanbaatar City; air pollution; air quality measurement; benzene; chloroform; exhaust gas; global warming; heavy metal; toluene; vehicle; volatile organic compound; xylenes; Air pollution; Cities and towns; Environmental factors; Gases; Protection; Raman scattering; Spectroscopy; Thermal pollution; Vehicles; Volatile organic compounds;
Conference_Titel :
Strategic Technologies, 2008. IFOST 2008. Third International Forum on
Conference_Location :
Novosibirsk-Tomsk
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2319-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2320-0
DOI :
10.1109/IFOST.2008.4602927
