The East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) was officially founded in 1952 from a merge of the chemical or chemistry departments from Jiaotong University, Université d’Aurora, Utopia University, Soochow University and Jiangnan University, and became the first chemical industry oriented university in China named as the ECUST.
(Pictured: The biggest weight-loading tethered balloon use for observation of vertical distribution of air pollutants in Shanghai)
In 1973, the “three wastes” treatment Laboratory was established and in 1981, the Department of Environmental Engineering was established at the ECUST. Environmental engineering is a school professional brand and national specialty, and have passed the engineering education accreditation organized by the Ministry of Education in 2014. In 2008, China Ministry of Environmental set up a key laboratory in ECUST on “Environmental risk assessment and control of Chemical materials in chemical processes”.
Since 1988, our group have begun to study source profile and formation mechanisms of PM2.5 and ozone. Now we still focus on source, formation processes, health effects and control of haze and ozone such as measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), organic species in particle-phase and interaction between particle and ozone. ECUST and Shanghai Environmental Protection Department (SEPD) have set up a joint-research stereoscopic observation base in ECUST New Campus utilising by tethered balloon, the biggest weight-loaded balloon used for environmental monitoring. Our research has covered measurements of brown carbon, black carbon, ions, heavy metals ( particularly
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mercury), POPS and other elements in ambient airborne particles and emitted from combustion sources, as well as air transportation models and atmospheric chemistry models. Recently we began our studies on personal exposure and health effects of particles and ozone. In addition, our group is also one of important air pollution control policies study groups in Shanghai, and we have provided recommendations for national air pollutants emission standard for four kinds of industries and two local emission standards. As the Key Laboratory of China MEP, we have also investigated the air pollution near chemical industry park and attempt to to trace the pollution sources through combining source to receptor and receptor to source.
华东理工大学
华东理工大学原名华东化工学院，办学历史可追溯到100多年前的南洋公学和震旦学
(Pictured: The biggest weight-loading tethered balloon use for observation of vertical distribution of air pollutants in Shanghai)
院，是1952年由交通大学（上海）、震旦大学（上海）、大同大学（上海）、东吴大
学（苏州）、江南大学（无锡）等校化工系合并组建而成的新中国第一所以化工特色闻名的高等学府。1993年经国家教委批准，更名为华东理工大学，1996年进入国家“211工程”重点建设行列，1997年上海市参与共建共管，2000年经教育部批准建立研究生院，2008年获准建设“985优势学科创新平台”，是国家首批实施自主招生改革的22所高校之一。
1973年“三废实验室”成立，,1981年成立环境工程系。环境工程专业是品牌专业和国家特色专业，2014年通过了教育部组织的工程认证。2008年，环境保护部依托华东理工大学建设国家环境保护化工过程环境风险评价与控制重点实验室。自1988年起，大气污染化学与风险控制课题组开始研究PM2.5和臭氧的来源和形成机理。现在，我们致力于霾污染和臭氧污染的源解析、形成过程、健康效应和控制，比如挥发性有机物、颗粒物中有机相的测。
定以及臭氧与颗粒物的相互作用。华东理工大学和上海市环境保护局在华东理工大学新校区建立了合作观测站，利用国际上最大载荷的系留气球进行环境污染物的垂直观测。我们的研究对象包括了环境和源颗粒物中棕色碳、黑碳、
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离子、重金属（特别是汞）、POPs和其他元素组成以及大气输送模型和大气化学模型，近期我们开始关注颗粒物和臭氧的个体暴露和健康效应。此外，我们也是上海市重要的大气污染控制政策研究团队之一，我们已经完成发布了2项国家污染物排放标准和4项地方污染物排放标准。
作为环保部的重点实验室，我们也研究化工园区附近大气污染物及应用源-受体和受体-源模型进行污染溯源工作.