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Air Quality Monitoring
Why monitor air quality? Well, to monitor is to know. Everything else is just more or less qualified guesses. International, national and local air quality targets and limits are also tied to monitoring results. What is Air Quality? How is air quality characterised? It is quite common to find air quality indexes, where the ranges are divided in sections indicating “good”, ...
By OPSIS AB
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Air Quality Monitoring in Schools
In November 2019, the schools in New Delhi, the capital of India, were shut for two days. Reason? An extreme spike in the pollution level of Delhi air. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had reported an AQI (Air Quality Index) of 472, which is nine times the level recommended by the WHO. The maximum possible rating is 500. Today schools are all placed in highly populated places. Most of ...
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Indoor Air Quality Monitoring
The commercial office space market is no stranger to swiftly accommodating the needs of their tenants. In the ‘90s and 2000s, this meant amenities like gym space and cafes for workers who needed to be on-site. Now, as hybrid work models and environmentally sustainable business models become central to their customers, we’re seeing more demand for indoor air quality (IAQ) monitoring. ...
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£5M Investment In Air Quality
The UK government announced an investment of ~£5 Million to tackle air pollution and one third of all funded applications explicitly mention air quality monitoring or the purchase of air quality sensors. It makes sense: ❔ How do we evaluate the return on the investment? Accurate monitoring of changes in air quality in the target area is needed. ❔ How do we design future ...
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Rough set-based regionalisation in air quality monitoring
Regionalisation is to organise a large set of spatial objects into spatially contiguous regions despite optimising the homogeneity of the derived regions, while representing social and economic geography. To confront this problem, it is necessary to classify the regions to form groups that are homogeneous in air quality attributes. It is to develop a system that applies data mining techniques to ...
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Air Quality Monitoring – BTEX Analyses
Benzene is a hydrocarbon that appears as a volatile liquid, capable of evaporating rapidly at room temperature; it is colourless and easily flammable and is the progenitor of a family of organic compounds defined as aromatic, due to the characteristic odour. Benzene is a natural component of oil (1-5% by volume) and its refining derivatives. PROBLEM: BTEX analysis gives a great indication of ...
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Air Quality Monitoring in the EU – What, Where, and How?
Air quality is essential to all of us, and consequently, so is the monitoring of air quality. However, what should be monitored, and where, and how? There are many bids on that. Some ten years ago, The European Union established its directive 2008/50/EC “on ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe”. It is aimed at protecting human health as well as vegetation, and it has ever ...
By OPSIS AB
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Air Quality Monitoring at Construction Sites
Global construction activities have increased drastically in the last few decades. In the case of India, the Construction industry is expected to record a CAGR of 15.7% to reach $ 738.5 bn by 2022. How is the growth of construction activities related to air pollution monitoring? Actually, it is quite simple. Construction activities are major contributors to dust pollution. Apart from the usage of ...
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Importance of Air Quality monitoring in Mountains
Mountains – A source of freshwater, good quality air, flora and fauna, natural resources like wood, basic food, etc. The ambient air of mountains is so good that people forget their worries and spend a peaceful time. Because of this, mountain tourism has increased drastically in recent times. People like to spend their holidays under the arms of nature, away from the hustle-bustle of city ...
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Continuous air quality monitoring on a refinery - Case Study
We installed several Ecomsmart for ambient air quality monitoring on the TOTAL refinery site. By connecting to the web platform www.i-comesure.com users can be constantly informed in real-time of the air quality at their production ...
By Ecomesure
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Air quality monitoring during the Valencia marathon - Case Study
LOCATION Valencia, Spain SOLUTION Health, Sports & Open Spaces SECTOR Smart Environment PRODUCT Kunak AIR A10 mobile Kunak AIR P10 mobile Challenge World Athletics set out in 2018 to create a real-time air quality network with global coverage to help athletes choose the best times to train and compete, to help organizers protect athletes' health and - in collaboration with the United ...
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Buying AQM Equipment or AQ Data? It’s Your Choice
In the traditional approach to air quality monitoring, those “who wants to know” have also owned and maintained the monitoring equipment generating the answers. This approach worked quite fine as long as the user had the budget to invest in the equipment and an organization large enough to maintain it. However, recent years’ slimmed organizations have opened up for an ...
By OPSIS AB
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Croydon Council Invests In Air Quality Monitoring
The Environmental impact of construction is now better understood Brighton, UK 11 May 2020 - Croydon Council is leading local authority monitoring of the impact of construction in their borough. With no less than 11 multi-million pound construction developments in progress at any one time, the Council is rightly concerned about maintaining environmental compliance. Following the agreement with ...
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Why Air Quality Monitoring Matters
Air pollution causes premature deaths and has significant consequences on the global economy. This has been presented in several reports recently. Air pollution has emerged as the fourth-leading risk factor for deaths worldwide. The World Bank states that 1 in 10 deaths worldwide is caused by air pollution exposure. In the report The Cost of Air Pollution: Strengthening the Economic Case for ...
By OPSIS AB
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Selecting the Right Air Quality Monitor
There are many types of air quality monitors available, but which one is the best choice for measuring gaseous air pollutant concentrations? There are two classes of such air quality monitors: sampling monitors and in-situ monitors (“in-situ” = “in the original position”). Sampling monitors utilises a manifold through which the air to be analysed is pumped. A small air ...
By OPSIS AB
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Hybrid Air Quality Monitoring Network – The future of urban monitoring
Rapid urbanization, industrialization, and a rise in vehicular pollution have severely affected air quality in cities. With growing concerns about air pollution and cascading effects across the population, air pollution is emerging as a significant problem. Vehicular pollution, road dust, construction, and industrial pollution are some of the major sources responsible for air pollution in Indian ...
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Analysis of local concentration gradients in complex built environments: implications for Air Quality Management Areas
This paper reviews the existing guidance on placement of permanent air quality monitoring stations within urban areas and suggests the principles for a new, performance-based guidance. An integrated air quality model has been developed and validated for the designated Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) located in Glasgow City Centre to analyse the importance of local concentration gradients on ...
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Passive samplers for air quality monitoring in a Brazilian university
The aim of this paper was to evaluate the applicability of passive samplers for the monitoring and diagnosis of air pollution at Passo Fundo University, focusing on atmospheric pollutants NO 2 and O 3 . The samplers were built in accordance with already verified methodologies and were placed in several locations in the university campus, namely: energy generator, pool heating boiler, ...
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Smart City Air Quality Monitoring - Case Study
Prime Minister Narendra Modi started the Smart City initiative to ensure people in urban areas have access to a better standard of living along with good infrastructure, good education and health facilities and access to a healthy environment. This means, among other things, that City corporations have to ensure a reduction in pollution levels in their respective cities. Prkruti is a device that ...
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Calibration vital for air-quality monitoring equipment
Industrial settings can be rife with potential chemical hazards. The danger might be an environmental one, such as emissions that can harm the atmosphere or nearby water systems. Or the risk could be to the employees at the facility, who need clean, safe air to breath. In many cases, both dangers might be present. Industrial plants are required by a number of national and international protocols ...
By Specgas Inc.
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