Meet the editors

Dr. Muharrem Ince received his Ph.D. degree in analytical chemistry at Firat University, Turkey in 2008. He worked at Mus Alparslan University, Turkey from 2009 to 2012 as an assistant professor. He has been working at Munzur University since 2012. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Head of Department of Chemical Engineering at the Munzur University. He has been an "Editorial Board Member" of several international journals. Currently,

he is an associate professor at the Munzur University Rare Earth Elements Research and Application Center. He has authored and co-authored more than 26 papers that have been published in respectable international journals. He is an expert in analytical method development, spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques, food analysis and toxicology, nanoscience, and nanotechnology.

Dr. Olcay Kaplan Ince received her BSc degree from Hacettepe University and her PhD degree in analytical chemistry from Firat University in Turkey in 2008. She became a research analytical chemist at the Munzur University in 2009 in the Food Engineering Department. She was Head of the Department of Food Engineering at the Munzur University from 2014 to 2015. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of the International

Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences since 2015. She is the author of more than 30 papers published in journals with good impact factors in their area and her research areas include trace and toxic element analysis, analytical chemistry, ınstrumental analysis, problem solving in analytical chemistry, food science and chromatography, and nanoscience and citotoxicology.

Contents

of Hydrocarbons

*and Varun Rawat*

Matter

*by Muharrem Ince and Olcay Kaplan Ince*

Aerosol Studies over Central India *by Kannemadugu Hareef Baba Shaeb*

Source and Control of Hydrocarbon Pollution

*by Manish Srivastava, Anamika Srivastava, Anjali Yadav* 

*by Hugo Saldarriaga-Noreña, Rebecca López-Márquez, Mario Alfonso Murillo-Tovar, Mónica Ivonne Arias-Montoya, Jorge Antonio Guerrero-Álvarez and Josefina Vergara-Sánchez*

Petroleum Hydrocarbon and Living Organisms *by Abdullah M. Alzahrani and Peramaiyan Rajendran*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 71**

Recent Advances for Polycyclic Aromatic Analysis in Airborne Particulate

Introductory Chapter: Sources, Health Impact, and Environment Effect

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Preface

This book is titled "Hydrocarbon Pollution and its Effect on the Environment". The book provides an overview on hydrocarbon identification, contamination, and measurement techniques. "Hydrocarbon Pollution and its Effect on the Environment" takes a broad view of the subject and integrates a wide variety of approaches. This book attempts to address the needs of graduate and postgraduate students, as well as chemists and other professionals or readers interested in food, soil, water, and air pollution. The aim of this book is to explain important studies, and compare and develop the new and groundbreaking measurement techniques. Written by leading experts in their respective areas, the book is recommended to professionals interested in environmental and human health because it provides

**Dr. Muharrem Ince and Dr. Olcay Kaplan Ince** 

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Munzur University Rare Earth Elements Research and Application Center,

specific and comprehensive examples.
