Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs) in Indoor and Outdoor Urban Atmospheres at a Terai Region of Northern India

Authors

  • Amit Masih

  • Anurag S. Lall

Keywords:

TVOC, indoor, outdoor, residential, roadside, terai region

Abstract

Volatile organic compounds VOCs are an important class of air pollutants and even at a trace amounts these compounds have a high potential hazard to human health due to their carcinogenic nature In particular highly reactive VOCs which are reported to be toxic and also may participate in numerous reactions in the atmosphere to form secondary air pollutants including ground level ozone and secondary organic fine particles Thus an investigation of indoor outdoor TVOC was conducted at selected locations in Gorakhpur in order to ascertain the contamination levels The concentrations of TVOC were measured at two locations in the city of Gorakhpur which covers residential and roadside areas The samples were collected for the period of three consecutive days for indoors and outdoors at each microenvironment TVOC levels were measured using a portable data logging Ion Science PhoCheck photo-ionization detector PID TVOC concentration for combined indoor outdoor air was 65 03 ppb and 161 08 ppb at residential and roadside site respectively At residential site the indoor and outdoor mean concentration of TVOC was 90 45 ppb and 39 62 ppb respectively The average indoor concentration at roadside site was 173 52 ppb whereas at outdoor it was 148 68 ppb At both the sites the indoor TVOC levels were higher than that at outdoors

How to Cite

Amit Masih, & Anurag S. Lall. (2016). Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs) in Indoor and Outdoor Urban Atmospheres at a Terai Region of Northern India. Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, 16(H4), 75–79. Retrieved from https://journalofscience.org/index.php/GJSFR/article/view/1931

Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs) in Indoor and Outdoor Urban Atmospheres at a Terai Region of Northern India

Published

2016-07-15