Tiina Torvela

TL;DR: Exhaust fumes from a ship engine running on either common heavy fuel oil (HFO) or cleaner-burning diesel fuel (DF) influenced several essential pathways of lung cell metabolism more strongly than particles from the unrefined fuel HFO, which might be attributable to a higher soot content in DF.

TL;DR: The physical and chemical properties of biomass combustion-originated particles produced under controlled conditions (efficient, intermediate, and smouldering combustion) were studied in this article, where transmission electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy was used to study the morphology and chemical composition of the size classified samples collected from the flue gas.

TL;DR: In this article, an air-liquid interface exposure system was used to evaluate human lung cells under realistic in vitro conditions to exhaust fumes from a ship engine running on either common heavy fuel oil (HFO) or cleaner-burning diesel fuel (DF).

TL;DR: The results of this study give rise to the conclusion that a mere switching to sulphur-free fuel is not sufficient as remediation measure to reduce health and environmental effects of ship emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a biomass combustion reactor with a moving grate was used as a model system to produce three different combustion conditions corresponding to efficient, intermediate, and smouldering combustion, and the ability of fine particles to cause cell death was determined using the particle emissions samples.