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Topic 2-Introduction To Air Pollution (3) - 2 PDF
Topic 2-Introduction To Air Pollution (3) - 2 PDF
Topic 2-Introduction To Air Pollution (3) - 2 PDF
REACTIONS
Carbon Monoxide 1 hr 30 35
8 hr 9 10
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COARSE AND FINE PARTICLES
•Coarse dust particles
(PM10) are 2.5 to 10
micrometers in diameter.
Sources include crushing or
grinding operations and dust
stirred up by vehicles on roads.
Automatic Manual
Pollutant Standards Index (PSI)
The United States Environment Protection Agency (USEPA)
developed the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) to
provide accurate, timely and easily understandable
information about daily levels of air pollution.
c = O3 * PM10
Nesa (Dec-Apr09)
Tropospheric Ozone
During late afternoons or early evenings,
the concentration of ozone increases and
dominates the API readings in some places.
In sunlight, oxides of nitrogen and volatile
organic compounds (VOCs) from motor
vehicle exhaust and industries react to form
tropospheric ozone.
Limitations of PSI and API
The PSI/API emphasizes short term acute health effects, and does not
take into account chronic effects occurring over months or years.
Finally, the PSI/API does not take into account the possible
synergistic effects when different pollutants combine together.
That is, the adverse health effects of combinations of two or more
pollutants can be worse than the sum of each of the pollutants
separately.
Vide summary
Nesa (Dec-Apr09)
Conclusion