The Influence of Outdoor Exposure Concentrations on Indoor Air Quality in Rudimentary Designed Household Structures: Mpumalanga Province, South Africa | ||
| Pollution | ||
| دوره 10، شماره 1، بهار 2024، صفحه 466-480 اصل مقاله (2.49 M) | ||
| نوع مقاله: Original Research Paper | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22059/poll.2023.365069.2064 | ||
| نویسندگان | ||
| Benett Siyabonga Madonsela* 1؛ Thabang Maphanga1؛ Karabo Concelia Malakane2؛ Terry Takalani Phungela3؛ Babalwa Gqomfa1؛ Sinalo Grangxabe1؛ Humphrey Kgabo Thamaga4؛ Lhoussain Hajji5؛ Stanley Lekata6؛ Ahmed Karmaoui7؛ Thokozani Patrick Mbonane8 | ||
| 1Department of Environmental and Occupational Studies, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Corner of Hanover and Tennant Street, Zonnebloem, Cape Town 8000, South Africa | ||
| 2Department of Biodiversity, University of Limpopo, Sovenga, South Africa Private Bag X1106, Sovenga 0727, South Africa | ||
| 3Department of Water and Sanitation, 35 Brown Street, Mbombela 1200, South Africa | ||
| 4Department of GIS and Remote sensing, University of Fort Hare Alice Campus, Ring Road, Alice, 5700, South Africa | ||
| 5Faculty of Sciences Meknes Moulay Ismail University Morocco. B.P. 11201 Zitoune , Meknes, Morocco | ||
| 6Centre for University Teaching and Learning (CUTL), Sefako Makgatho Health Science University, Molotlegi Street, Ga-Rankuwa, MEdunsa 0204, Pretorai, South Africa | ||
| 7Lhoussain Bioactives and Environmental Health Laboratory, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco | ||
| 8Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa | ||
| چکیده | ||
| There is a belief that ambient air pollution is accountable for degrading the air quality indoors. Although in principle the indoor air quality should be better than that of outdoor air quality given the shielding effect of a house structure. However, ambient air quality can infiltrate and influence indoor air pollution concentrations in low-income urban informal settlements due to rudimentary designed household structures. Given this phenomenon, the current study endeavoured to explore the influence of outdoor exposure concentration on indoor air quality within the informal settlements of urban neighbourhoods. The exposure concentrations of indoor and outdoor particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide pollutants were simultaneously measured during summer and winter seasons. The GilAir Plus air sample pump was used to acquire measurements of particulate matter collected over 48 hours. While nitrogen dioxide gases were measured using passive diffusive samplers. All statistical analyses were performed using Python (version 3.8) Spyder. The current study has discovered that in many instances the results were comparable indoors and outdoors. For instance, this has been corroborated by the nitrogen dioxide discoveries where the current results were slightly comparable as indoor exposure concentrations values were recorded to be between (4 µg/m3 and 13 µg/m3), whilst the outdoor concentration ranged between (6 µg/m3 and 11 µg/m3). Likewise, a similar trend was observed for particulate matter exposure concentrations indoors (14 µg/m3 ) and (12 µg/m3) outdoors. The statistical inferences futher confirmed that the exposure values of indoor and outdoor were not significant (p>0.05) within the study areas of concern. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| Indoor and outdoor air quality؛ ambient air pollution Mpumalanga highveld؛ Particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide Mpumalanga province؛ Indoor or Outdoor ratios | ||
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