Eliseo Monfort

TL;DR: In this paper, trace element concentrations in PM10 and PM2.5 were determined at 33 monitoring stations in Spain throughout the period 1995-2006, at sites with no significant industrial development allowed them to define usual concentration ranges for a number of trace elements in rural and urban background environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the average ranges of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) concentrations and chemical composition in Spain show significant variations across the country, with current PM10 levels at several industrial and traffic hotspots exceeding recommended pollution limits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the environmental characteristics of coal gangue dumps in Yangquan (Shanxi Province, China) and showed that the combustion temperature could reach 1200 °C.

TL;DR: Geochemical characterisation of urban background PM is a valuable compliment to the physical monitoring of aerosols widely employed in urban areas, especially given the relevance of trace metal inhalation to urban health issues.

TL;DR: In this article, three of the most widespread receptor models (principal component analysis, PCA; positive matrix factorization, PMF; chemical mass balance, CMB) were applied to a single PM 10 data set (n =328 samples, 2002-2005) obtained from an industrial area in NE Spain, dedicated to ceramic production.