Air quality assessment

COM(94jl09 Proposal on ambient air quality assessment and management... 

What are some of the criteria to use when selecting a consultant for indoor air quality assessments. 

Hodgin, C. R. (1980). Logarithmic wind profile parameters applied to air quality assessment studies. Proc. J. Conf. Appl. Air Pollut. Meteorol., 2nd, pp. 770-775. 

Shen TT. 1982. Air quality assessment for land disposal of industrial wastes. Environ Management 6 297-305. 

To identify comparable non-critical areas, N02 and PM levels and the trend of these pollutants were analysed in cities across the EU. Taking the criteria for non-critical areas into account, Berlin was selected as a comparable non-critical area.7 Other cities or areas which fit the criteria for non-critical areas either have a special emission structure (which eases abatement measures), or they are comparably small, or largely comparable to Berlin with respect to their dispersion conditions or modal split of traffic in several cases the available information about air quality assessment and management is not enough. Therefore, Berlin is the only non-critical area which is discussed here in detail. 

Natural sources (Sahara dust) contribute significantly to PM10 levels in Lisbon, a factor which can be considered (deducted) in the air quality assessment. 

Air quality assessment is undertaken with different levels of detail in the Member States. There are also indications that assessment is incomplete in some zones. The analysis of non-critical areas has shown that for some cities only information about urban background stations is available and that the data in AirBase are different from other datasets. Whereas compliance is achieved in urban background areas, exceedances might occur at hotspot sites, which may remain undetected if no further assessments are undertaken. Therefore guidance documents and further support, e.g. via dedicated workshops, might be helpful. 

Completeness of air quality assessments throughout the territory of all Member States... 

Commission Decision 2004/461/EC Commission Decision of 29 April 2004 laying down a questionnaire to be used for annual reporting on ambient air quality assessment under Council Directives 96/62/EC and 1999/30/EC and under Directives 2000/69/EC and 2002/3/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. C(2004) 1714... 

Borrego C, Monteiro A, Costa AM, Martins H, Miranda AI, Builtjes P, Lutz M (2007) Estimation of modelling uncertainty for air quality assessment Berlin case. In Sixth international conference of urban air quality, Limassol... 

Borrego C, Monteiro A, Ferreira J, Miranda AI, Costa AM, Carvalho AC, Lopes M (2008) Procedures for estimation of modelling uncertainty in air quality assessment. Environ Int... 

Routine linkages between public health data and environmental stressors, specifically urban air quality, assess the effectiveness of abatement strategies,... 

Directive 96/62/EC (1996) Directive of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 September 1996 on Ambient air quality assessment and management. Official... 

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and carbon dioxide (C02) are two major indicators of indoor air pollution in air-conditioned office buildings. Indoor air quality assessments would include VOCs and C02 measurements and attempt to identify their sources so that strategies for effective control may be implemented. Options for control may be source control and ventilation. Source control is the more effective while ventilation is potentially expensive, given the unpredictable (and usually rising) cost of energy. 

Seaman N. L. (2000) Meteorological modeling for air quality assessments. Atmos. Environ. 34, 2231-2260. 

In accordance with the Statute of the State Inspectorate for Environmental Protection (SIEP), the Chief Inspector of SIEP plays the co-coordinative role within the State Environmental Monitoring Programme. The State Sanitary Inspectorate (SSI) is responsible for air quality assessment from the viewpoint of health and hygiene requirements. The authority responsible for official data on national emissions into air is the Department of Environmental Protection in the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry (MoE). Air quality monitoring data are used at national, voivodship (provincial) and local levels. 

Castello, M., Nimis, P.L., Cebulec, E., Mosca, R., 1995. Air quality assessment by lichens as bioindicators of SO2 and bioaccumulators of heavy metals in the province of Trieste (NE Italy). Agric. Med., Special volume, 233-243. 

Klumpp A, Klumpp G, Domingos M (1994) Plants as bioindicators of air pollution at the Serra do Mar near the industrial complex of Cubatao, Brazil. Environ Pollut 85 109-116 Klumpp A, Ansel W, Klumpp G, Belluzzo N, Calatayud V, Chaplin N, Garrec JP, Gutsche H-J, Hayes M, Hentze H-W, Kambezidis H, Laurent O, Penuelas J, Rasmussen S, Ribas A, Ro-Poulsen H, Rossi S, Sanz MJ, Shang H, Sifakis N, Vergne P (2002) EuroBionet a Pan-European biomonitoring network for urban air quality assessment. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 9 199-203... 

Stabentheiner E, Gross A, Soja G, Grill D (2004) Air quality assessment in Graz/Austria using monitoring plants. In Klumpp A, Ansel W, Klumpp G (eds) Urban air pollution, bioindication and environmental awareness. Cuvillier, Gottingen, pp 51-58... 

An air quality assessment was carried out at the control room. In terms of minimum requirements, 15 permanent workstations are located in the control room, each requiring a per-person air supply of 29 mVhr (or a total of 435 m /hr). The volume of the control room is 790 m therefore, the air must be completely changed around once every 2 hours. This is a minimum. In the example, a Biddle Metair system air conditioner has been installed (Figure 13.7) that is able to supply 132 m /min of a mixture of recycled and fresh air (or 7920 mVhr). The fresh air supply is 54 m /min (or 3240 m /hr), which means that the air is replaced 4 times per hour. Standards laying down minimum requirements are, therefore, easily achieved. 

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