Correlation between odour concentration and odour intensity from exposure to environmental odour
| Autor: | Nastaein Qamaruz Zaman, Syafinah Yusoff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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food and beverages Improved method 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Toxicology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine parasitic diseases behavior and behavior mechanisms Environmental science 030212 general & internal medicine Nuisance psychological phenomena and processes Intensity (heat transfer) Palm oil mill 0105 earth and related environmental sciences With odour |
| Zdroj: | IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 226:012069 |
| ISSN: | 1757-899X 1757-8981 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1757-899x/226/1/012069 |
| Popis: | The encroachment of industries, agricultural activities and husbandries to the community area had been a major concern of late, especially in regards to the escalating reports of odour nuisances. A study was performed with the objective of establishing correlation between odour concentration and odour intensity, as an improved method to determine odour nuisances in the community. Universiti Sains Malaysia Engineering Campus was chosen as the study location, due to its vicinity to several odour sources including paper mill, palm oil mill and poultry farm. The odour survey was based on VDI 3940, to determine the level of odour intensity with the corresponding odour concentration measured using an infield olfactometer. The correlation between both methods shows a significant correlation by using Pearson Correlation with a level of confidence of 99.9 percent. The graph plotted between intensity and concentration shows the R2 value of 0.40 which indicated a good correlation between both methods, despite having a high variance and low in consistency. Therefore, this study concludes that the determination of odour concentration should be complemented with odour intensity in order to recognize the true impact of odour nuisance in a community. |
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