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The small combustion devices in the municipalities are significant element of the air pollution, especially in the winter season. Currently, there is increasing a choice of the alternative sources of heating and biomass combustion. However, even in these combustion processes are fine particles formed, which affects human health. The paper is focused on the issue of biomass combustion processes in the laboratory conditions, where was monitored the concentration and distribution of particles ( < PM10) with using of ...

In the recent decades, environmental pollution has been one of the major interesting research subjects where pollution might have a direct influence on public health and possibly cause serious and irretrievable damage to the Earth. The aim was to determine the levels of the heavy metals, Cu, Zn, Cr, Cd, Pb and Ni, in soil of urban areas in the city of Brno (Czech Republic). Soil analysis was performed on urban soil from the same layer, where the soil samples come from the depth of 20 cm. These samples were taken f...