Study on outdoor and indoor air quality monitoring of IGI Airport Terminal -1 during some construction work at airport
2022
Akbar, Mohammed Abdullah | Khursheed Ahmad, Sayed | Kumari, Sapna
Air Pollution is one of the major global problem in the world and has a great health hazard. Polluted air that penetrates deep into the lungs and cardiovascular system, cause diseases including stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and respiratory infections. Air pollution continues to rise at an alarming rate and affects economies and people’s quality of life. Therefore, air pollutions control is vital and should be on the top of priority. Construction Industry is one of the major sources of air pollution due to its nature. Activities like road construction, excavation and backfilling, other earth work, block work, plaster work, concrete work, fixing of tiles and marbles, grinding, and cheeping of wall and floors, gas cutting, welding, and painting etc. are major cause of air pollution. Study on outdoor and indoor air quality monitoring of IGI airport terminal -1 during some construction work at airport has been carried out manually at three different location of airport terminal building through “Smiledrive Air Quality Pollution Monitor” equipment which is a portable meter detector. The main objective of the study is to find out the concentration of air pollutants of PM1, PM2.5, PM10, and TVOC. The location was Forecourt area as outdoor environment, Hall area as partial outdoor environment and Basement area as Indoor Environment. At each location data was observed at different time interval between 1000 hours and 18000 hours.
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