To increase the deployment of photovoltaic (PV) systems, a higher level of performance for PV modules should be sought. Soiling, or dust accumulation on the PV modules, is one of the conditions that negatively affect the performance of the PV modules by reducing the light incide…
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The interest of investigating the phenomenon of dust storms comes from their direct impact on human and ecosystem health and climate global change. Despite that the majority of previous investigations performed in many parts of the Middle East, Africa and China, however the main…
The investigation of harmful semi volatile organic compounds (SVOC) in the indoor environment is important because on average people spend over 90% of their time indoors. Lindane, an SVOC which was widely used in the UK until 2004, adsorbs to house dust. House dust acts as a res…
Dust accumulation on photovoltaic (PV) modules and its effect on their performance are of high concern for regions with a high rate of dust, low frequency and intensity of rain. In this thesis, the effect of dust on PV modules is investigated with respect to dust concentration a…
Atmospheric dust, water vapor and ice, and minor gas species (argon, nitrogen) are known as tracers of the martian atmosphere because of their ability to track atmospheric circulation. Their abundance by mass in the martian atmosphere is negligible, with nitrogen being the large…
Many studies have been conducted to quantify total dust emissions from confinement animal buildings, but the dust emission was not sufficiently addressed due to absence of standard measurement methods and a lack of representative data. This study investigated chemical, physical …
Soldiers that are deployed overseas are breathing ambient air containing concentrations of fine particulate matter known to cause adverse effects to human health. A study initiated in 2008 was designed to determine the concentrations and compositions of fine particulate matter i…
Phosphorus is an essential nutrient that allows life in water to flourish, but changes in phosphorus supplies are not well understood in remote watersheds. In mountain environments, remote watersheds contain critical high-quality water supplies and unique ecosystems, but excess …
Pleistocene-age terra rossa paleosols are situated on and are intercalated with eolianite and marine carbonate units across the Bermuda Islands. These clay-rich soils were originally thought to the derived from weathering of the volcanic seamount and/or from dissolution of the c…