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#	Authors	First Online	DOI	Downloads	Citations
1.	Satish Kumar	31 May 2020	na	61	0

Abstract

Soot is emerging as a predominant pollutant in urban and rural areas. It is generated during the combustion of carbon-based fuels. Due to the increase in the population and the necessity to provide mobility options for all the citizens, vehicle numbers have increased in many Indian cities. Further, the driving profile of Indian road users involves complex acceleration, deceleration and braking patterns resulting in more emission of soot from the engines. Moreover, the limited options for proper maintenance of engines resulted in more emissions from the vehicles. It has also been observed that due to various socio-economic factors, usage of old vehicles within the city limits has increased resulting in increased generation of pollutants like Soot. Hence the emission of soot is of concern in order to safe guard the health of the citizens. Further, due to limited monitoring facilities available, emission of soot and its effect on the health of the citizens cannot be estimated and due to this reason, this study trying to give an estimated data for the health risk. There are no such parameters or protocol present in the present scenario of soot in India which make the society life in danger. This study also enlightens the basics of the combustion chemistry in the combustion chamber of the vehicle. In order to check the trend of the soot increasing or decreasing, it is very important to understand the chemistry occurs in the combustion chamber. Air-Fuel Ratio gives the estimated soot which helps in predicting the soot number and the effect of soot on the human health as well as the environment. Mechanism and the equipment of vehicle also overviewed in this study in order to check and repair the vehicle to resist the harmful exhaust gas emission and soot. This study focuses on measuring soot from the vehicles and estimate the pollutant generation from the soot by developing mathematical relations for the same. The study also focusses on developing health risk coefficients based on the predicted concentrations. The study has observed that the soot generated from the two wheelers has a significant correlation with the emissions of CO and CO2 emitted from the vehicles. The correlation helps to predict the concentrations of the pollutants with the help of the measurement of Soot.

Monitoring and Assessment of Health Risk Associated with Soot from Vehicles

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