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QSPR predicting the vapor pressure of pesticides into high/low volatility classes
In this work, the vapor pressure of pesticides is employed as an indicator of their volatility potential. Quantitative Structure-Property...
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Importance of Advection-Driven Soil Vapor Intrusion: Effects of Atmospheric and Indoor Pressure Variations
The vapor intrusion (VI) of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is a major concern due to their acute and chronic toxicities to indoor human. VI could...
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Fine-Tuning Growth Conditions: Leaf-Level Vapor Pressure Deficit Control for Optimized Photosynthesis
The optimization of plant growth conditions plays a crucial role in enhancing photosynthetic efficiency, which ultimately impacts crop productivity...
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Vapor Intrusion Simulations and Risk Assessments
This book introduces key concepts in modeling and risk assessments of vapor intrusion, a process by which the subsurface volatile contaminants...
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Thermal Processes for Seawater Desalination: Multi-effect Distillation, Thermal Vapor Compression, Mechanical Vapor Compression, and Multistage Flash
Despite the fact that global water is apparently abundant, almost half of the world faces water scarcity. Owing to the alarming rise in the...
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Multi-decadal variability controls short-term stratospheric water vapor trends
Stratospheric water vapor increases are expected in response to greenhouse gas-forced climate warming, and these changes act as a positive feedback...
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Numerical Models of Vapor Intrusion
Numerical models are those solved without mathematical solutions in analytical form. Instead, the solutions of models are calculated with numerical...
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Energy-economy-environment assessments of refrigerants R152a and R134a in a vapor compression refrigeration system using a variable displacement oil-free linear compressor
In light of the adverse environmental impact of the R134a refrigerant, replacing it with a more environmentally friendly refrigerant has become...
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Screening Models of Vapor Intrusion
Vapor intrusion (VI) models simulate the transport of contaminant soil gas from subsurface sources into the buildings of concern at contaminated...
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Precipitation Extremes and Water Vapor
Purpose of Review:Review our current understanding of how precipitation is related to its thermodynamic environment, i.e., the water vapor and...
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Competitive adsorption characteristics of VOCs and water vapor by activated carbon prepared from Fe/N-doped pistachio shell
Various materials have been developed to capture volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to mitigate air pollution. However, sorbent materials with...
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Enhanced benzene vapor adsorption through microwave-assisted fabrication of activated carbon from peanut shells using ZnCl2 as an activating agent
Herein, microwave-assisted activated carbon (MW-AC) was fabricated from peanut shells using a ZnCl 2 activator and utilized for the first time to...
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US EPA’s Vapor Intrusion Database and Generic Attenuation Factor
The US EPA’s Vapor Intrusion (VI) database is a compilation of measurements from VI sites throughout the USA. The database contains information from...
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A novel intelligent strategy–based thermodynamic modeling and analysis of solar-assisted vapor absorption refrigeration system
In recent times, solar energy has been utilized for refrigeration systems due to its efficiency and clean form of energy. Moreover, the evacuated...
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Preferential Pathways and the Building Pressure Cycling Method
In a classical vapor intrusion (VI) scenario, the contaminant soil vapors are released from a subsurface source such as contaminated groundwater and...
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Gasoline vapor adsorption by activated nanoporous graphene: synthesis and response surface methodology based modeling
This study aims to synthesis nanoporous graphene by chemical vapor deposition method on nanoporous zinc oxide. Synthesis of nanoporous graphene as a...
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Vapor Intrusion Risk Assessments in Brownfield Redevelopment
The concept of a brownfield site is introduced in the redevelopment and utilization of land, which is often more complex than other site development...
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Application of physical vapor deposition technology for practical utilization of nano-size copper oxide for lead uptake from solution: kinetics, equilibrium, and recycling studies
For the first time, copper oxide–coated glass beads (CuO-GBs) were fabricated using physical vapor deposition (PVD) technology for sequestrating Pb 2+ ...
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Analysis of Cyclic Characteristics of Pressure Energy Utilization in Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Closed cycle is the most commonly used type of cycle in ocean thermal energy conversion. In order to recover and utilize the pressure energy of...
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Effect of nitrogen functional groups on competitive adsorption between toluene and water vapor onto nitrogen-doped spherical resorcinol-formaldehyde resin-based activated carbon
To elucidate the effect of nitrogen functional groups on the competitive adsorption of toluene and water vapor, a series of N-doped...
