TY - GEN
T1 - Sensor-based Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Assessment for indoor kitchens in urban India
AU - Indu, Gopika
AU - Shiva Nagendra, S. M.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT We would like to thank the homeowners for being cooperative in monitoring. The low-cost sensor-based monitors used for the study were part of the ‘Clean Air Engineering for Homes (CArE-Homes)’ and the ‘Knowledge Transfer and Practical application of research on Indoor Air Quality (KTP-IAQ)’ projects, which are funded by the University of Surrey's Research England funding under the Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) program.
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) refers to the deterioration of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of built indoor spaces. It is omnipresent and takes different forms, ranging from smoke emitted from solid-fuel combustion, especially in household kitchens in developing countries, to complex blends of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in modern buildings. IAP has several sources, such as cooking and heating activities, smoking, re-suspension of household dust, in-filtration of outdoor sources, etc. As per prior investigations, cooking is a predominant source of IAP in kitchen microenvironments because of the release of high concentrations of pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), etc. Therefore, burning fuels in enclosed spaces such as small household kitchens is a significant risk factor for the aggravation of respiratory diseases. In India, 89% of the urban population uses Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for cooking. To understand the extent of IAQ deterioration, a study was formulated to use sensor-based monitors for pollutant levels in indoor kitchen microenvironments. Low-cost sensor-based monitors were employed to measure the variations in PM and CO2 levels, along with comfort parameters such as temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH). Using low-cost sensors makes the study easy to replicate and compare with other parts of the world. The current paper presents the IAQ assessment results of selected household kitchens in Chennai city, Tamil Nadu, India.
AB - Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) refers to the deterioration of Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) of built indoor spaces. It is omnipresent and takes different forms, ranging from smoke emitted from solid-fuel combustion, especially in household kitchens in developing countries, to complex blends of volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in modern buildings. IAP has several sources, such as cooking and heating activities, smoking, re-suspension of household dust, in-filtration of outdoor sources, etc. As per prior investigations, cooking is a predominant source of IAP in kitchen microenvironments because of the release of high concentrations of pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), etc. Therefore, burning fuels in enclosed spaces such as small household kitchens is a significant risk factor for the aggravation of respiratory diseases. In India, 89% of the urban population uses Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for cooking. To understand the extent of IAQ deterioration, a study was formulated to use sensor-based monitors for pollutant levels in indoor kitchen microenvironments. Low-cost sensor-based monitors were employed to measure the variations in PM and CO2 levels, along with comfort parameters such as temperature (T) and relative humidity (RH). Using low-cost sensors makes the study easy to replicate and compare with other parts of the world. The current paper presents the IAQ assessment results of selected household kitchens in Chennai city, Tamil Nadu, India.
KW - Air pollution
KW - Indoor Air Quality
KW - Sensor-based monitoring
KW - urban kitchens
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UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/10352513/proceeding
UR - https://ieeemy.org/section/events/ieee-international-conference-on-sensors-and-nanotechnology-sennano-2023/
U2 - 10.1109/SENNANO57767.2023.10352527
DO - 10.1109/SENNANO57767.2023.10352527
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85182734914
SN - 9798350333312
T3 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Nanotechnology, SENNANO 2023
SP - 101
EP - 104
BT - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Nanotechnology, SENNANO 2023
A2 - Norfaezah Sabki , Syarifah
A2 - Abd Manaf, Asrulnizam
A2 - Norizan, Mohd Natashah
A2 - Md Arshad , Mohd Khairuddin
A2 - Mohamad Fathil , Mohamad Faris
A2 - Farhani Zakaria, Nor
PB - IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Nanotechnology, SENNANO 2023
Y2 - 26 September 2023 through 27 September 2023
ER -