Monitoring, Human Health Risk Assessment and Optimized Management for Typical Pollutants in Indoor Air from Random Families of University Staff, Wuhan City, China
| Autor: | Chaoyang Liu, Jun Yang, Xiyao Chen, Jingdong Zhang, Chunlin Peng, Fei Li |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Pollution
Engineering indoor air formaldehyde TVOC health risk assessment families 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:TJ807-830 Geography Planning and Development lcsh:Renewable energy sources Air pollution 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Sick building syndrome Environmental health Environmental monitoring medicine lcsh:Environmental sciences Environmental quality 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common lcsh:GE1-350 Pollutant Health risk assessment Waste management Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants lcsh:TD194-195 business Risk assessment |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability; Volume 9; Issue 7; Pages: 1115 Sustainability, Vol 9, Iss 7, p 1115 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su9071115 |
| Popis: | In this study, 31 workers at a university were randomly selected for indoor environmental monitoring in Wuhan. Two indicators, formaldehyde and total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), and using 139 monitoring points, monitored the indoor environment (including home and workplace) as well as the interior space of the main furniture. This study carried out the environmental quality assessment for TVOC based on the dB index method and the health risk assessment of indoor formaldehyde for the university staff receptors and, then focused on health risk in home environment to carry out detailed environmental health management. The results showed that TVOC in the three types of home spaces exceeded about 80% of the national standard. The excessive formaldehyde ratios for kitchens (79%), bedrooms (77%) and living rooms (74%) were calculated. Formaldehyde health risks all exceeded the United States Environmental Protection Agency, (USEPA) acceptable risk threshold. The formaldehyde concentrations in workplaces were about 0.03 mg·m−3. While the risk contribution of the home environment to the total average health risk (0.0014, whether male and female) is about 96%. For the adapted and unadapted persons, 90% and 55% of the monitoring points were located within the long-term tolerable range of TVOC decibel application, respectively. Long-term exposure to such an environment can lead to the Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). On the other hand, through comparison of the concentration of pollutants in the interior spaces of furniture and home spaces, it was determined tentatively that the pollutants were mainly concentrated in rarely used furniture. In summary, the air pollution in the studied homes of university staff was much serious than that in workplaces, which showed a need to manage TVOC and formaldehyde pollution by the three means: the purchase of green products, removal of internal pollution from furniture, and creating a good indoor volatile diffusion environment to create a healthy home environment. |
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