New Air Quality News magazine available to read now

The 26th edition of Air Quality News magazine has been published and is now available to read online.

It is available to read here.

In the AQN Special Report we look at three fascinating pieces of international research into air quality monitoring, and they couldn’t be more different from each other.

The EU-funded PAREMPI project is a huge undertaking that is investigating how primary aerosols from the transport sector react in the atmosphere, and how much the secondary aerosols thus formed contribute to ambient PM2.5.

On a completely different scale, See the Air’s Sotirios Papathanasiou has undertaken to monitor all the air he is exposed to for a full year. Here, he updates us on the early stages of his project and he will be updating his research for us as it progresses into next year.

Our final article explains how Albert Presto has managed to extract black carbon data from filter tapes sent to him from American embassies in Africa. His equipment is a mobile phone camera and a reference card.

Elsewhere, Emily Whitehouse examines the proposals contained in Zane’s Law and speaks to Zane’s father, Kye Gbangbola about their campaign.
Simon Guerrier takes a fascinating look at how a special effects company control the air quality in their bizarre workplace.

Also looking at air in the workplace (well, we have just had the 50th anniversary of the Health & Safety at Work Act), Martin Guttridge-Hewitt ventures into the professional kitchen to find out more about the Global CookSafe Coalition.

Our Big Interview is with Tim Dexter is the Clean Air Lead for Asthma Lung UK, who have been making the headlines recently with some eye-catching campaign to ensure that the issues around air quality continue to be discussed.

Darryl Johnston brings us the sad story of David Botlon, who fought in vain for his right to clean air. Having suffered from, and campaigned against residential wood burning, David died shortly after having decided to relocate to a cleaner neighbourhood.

Finally, Tony Abate from AtmosAir Solutions looks at the air quality challenges in transforming commercial spaces to homes.