INDOOR AND OUTDOOR
AIR POLLUTION

Edited by José A. Orosa

Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution
Edited by José A. Orosa Published by InTech
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Contents

Preface VII
Part 1 Outdoor Air Quality 1
Chapter 1 Air Polluted Environment and Health Effects 3
Michael Theophanides, Jane Anastassopoulou
and Theophile Theophanides
Chapter 2 Development and Evaluation of a Dispersion
Model to Predict Downwind Concentrations of
Particulate Emissions from Land Application of
Class B Biosolids in Unstable Conditions 29
Abhishek Bhat, Ashok Kumar and Kevin Czajkowski
Chapter 3 Air Pollution: A Case Study of
Ilorin and Lagos Outdoor Air 41
A.M.O. Abdul Raheem and F.A. Adekola
Chapter 4 Spectroscopy Analysis of Corrosion in the
Electronic Industry Influenced by Santa Ana
Winds in Marine Environments of Mexico 61
Gustavo Lopez, Benjamin Valdez and Michael Schorr
Part 2 Indoor Air Quality 77
Chapter 5 Correlation of Professional Performance to
AcceptableIAQ in Critical Care Medical Facilities 79
H.W. Holder, K.V. Easterwood, Jr., D.E. Johnson,
J.W. Sealy, M.D.Larranaga and D.C. Straus
Chapter 6 Air Quality Degradation: Can Economics

This and other indexes will be shown in-depth in Chapter 1.
On the other hand, the ambient concentration of criteria pollutants found within the
atmosphere of a domain can be predicted or simulated by numerical simulation. The
principal application of air pollution modeling is to investigate the air quality scenario
so that the associated environmental impact on a selected area can be predicted and
quantified. The Geographical Information System (GIS) was applied to this type of
analysis in order to organize the data results. In accordance with this point of view
and previous concepts, different case studies about outdoor and indoor air quality
have been analyzed in this book.
The first case study, Chapter 2, shows how to model the particulate matter released
during and after the application of biosolids based on the data collected during the
field study. The objective of this case study was to develop and evaluate a dispersion
VIII Preface

model for particulate matter associated with biosolid application on a farm field. The
efforts include a derivation of solution to a convective–diffusion equation
incorporating wind shear.
Air pollutants are continuously released from numerous sources into the atmosphere.
Several studies have been carried out on the quantification of pollutants and their
consequences on public health. Identification of the source characteristics of air
pollution is an important step in the development of regional air quality control
strategies. In this sense, the aim of the second case study, Chapter 3, was to analyze the
environmental data gathered on the daily monitoring of ambient ozone, oxides of
nitrogen, and sulfur (IV) oxide at five monitoring sites. Furthermore, in recent years,
certain statistical techniques that incorporate the influence of meteorological variables
have been applied to assess the trend in ozone levels in ambient air. One common
approach is the use of a parametric regression model to link different parameters to
meteorological variables. In this approach, another of the case studies shows, in
Chapter 4, how the cooper materials can be corroded by Santa Ana Winds.
After the conduct of case studies on outdoor air, it is time to comment on indoor air. In