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    The document defines air pollution and discusses its global implications. It also classifies pollutants and identifies some common indoor pollutants and their health effects. It discusses approaches to control indoor air pollution and concepts for air quality management including regulations, monitoring, and public reporting of air quality indexes.

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    • Definition of air pollution

    • Global implications of air pollution


    - Composition and Structure of Atmosphere
    - Units of measurement
    - Sources of pollutants
    • Classification of Pollutants
    - particulates, HC, CO, Oxides of S, Oxides of N,
    Photochemical oxidants
    Indoor air pollution
    • Most people spend a lot of their time
    indoors
    • Attention has recently been given to the
    health problems posed by air pollutants
    that originate from:
    - building materials
    - furnishings
    - equipment
    - human activities like cooking, cleaning
    and smoking
    Potential indoor pollutants
    • Potential indoor pollutants identified by the
    National Academy of Sciences for which
    there is evidence of adverse health
    include:
    - Formaldehyde
    - Tobacco smoke
    - Radon and radon daughters
    - Unvented combustion appliances
    - Aeropathogens
    - Pesticides
    - Asbestos
    Best approach
    • To alleviate adverse health effects from
    these substances, best approach is by
    exposure reduction with control strategies
    targeted.
    Air quality management concepts
    • AQM is a term used to describe all the functions
    required to control the quality of the atmosphere.
    • Among the elements of such a program are:
    - control regulations and strategy
    - legal authority to implement the control strategy
    - emission inventories
    - atmospheric surveillance network
    - data management system
    - agency staffing and funding
    - system for analysis of complaints
    - stack sampling operations
    Ambient Air Quality & Emission Standards

    • RA 8749 (CAA)
    Enforcement of Standards
    Surveillance and Control

    • What agencies?
    Air Quality Indexes
    PSI (pollutant standard index) has been
    developed by environmental agencies in
    order to integrate the several complex
    factors that make up “air quality”;
    • This combines the ambient measures of
    the five major criteria of pollutants into
    numbers ranging from 0 to 500.
    • The pollutants rated are CO, SO2, TSP,
    photochemical oxidants or ozone, and
    NO2
    Pollutant Standard Index

    • If the conc. of any one of the five major


    and initial criteria pollutants rises to the
    level of its air quality standard at any
    monitoring station, the air quality in the
    area is deemed unhealthy for that
    particular day, even though conc. of the
    other four criteria pollutants may be below
    the national standards.
    Air quality Index
    • AQI is an index for reporting daily air
    quality. It tells you how clean or polluted
    your air is, and what associated health
    effects might be a concern for you.
    • The AQI focused on health effects you
    may experience within a few hours or days
    after breathing polluted air.

    Source: Environmental Protection Agency


    Environmental performance index
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