Environmental monitoring of benzene and toluene produced in indoor air due to combustion of solid biomass fuels

Sinha, Sukesh Narayan; Kulkarni, P. K.; Shah, Salim; Desai, Nivas M.; Patel, G.M.; Mansuri, Moinuddhin; Saiyed, H. N.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.011

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“…Emissions of these VOCs were, generally, accumulated inside due to poor ventilation system in most of the religious and ritual places. In residential site, sources of the VOCs were cooking, cleaning activities and hardware materials used in houses (Srivastava et al, 2000;Rehwagen et al, 2003;Son et al, 2003;Sinha et al, 2006;Huang et al, 2011) but concentration of VOCs were higher during the burning in temple than indoor residential. Consequently the data derived from this study is likely to be significant for the purposes of associated health risk assessment and management.…”

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“…(Sinha et al, 2006;Huang et al, 2011), adhesive-bonded material use in plywood/ PVC flooring (Low et al, 1998;Wilke et al, 2004;Jarnstom et al, 2008;Choi et al, 2010;Kang et al, 2013) and house furniture's (Fisher et al, 1962;NRC, 1980;USDHUP, 1980;Franklin, 1981). Furthermore, Selected VOCs emission over the building materials has also been reported by Molhave (Molhave, 1980).…”

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Indoor VOCs from Religious and Ritual Burning Practices in India

Pervez

Dewangan

Chakrabarty

et al. 2014

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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Measurements of selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs), known as markers of emissions resulting from burning practices using natural-and synthetic biomaterials, have been carried out in major religious/ritual-indoors in India. Four different religious/ritual-indoors were selected for monitoring purposes: 1) Hindu Marriage Places (MP), 2) Muslim Holy Shrines (MG), 3) Buddhist Temples (BT), and 4) Hindu Temples (HT). One pure residential-indoor (RESID) site was also examined for comparison studies. Indoor VOCs sampling was carried out throughout the three seasons of summer, fall and winter of the calendar year of 2012-2013 in Raipur, India. VOCs samples, collected by passive sampling over a 48-h period, were analyzed using thermal desorption (TD), followed by high-resolution gas chromatographic separation and mass spectrometric detection (GC/MS). A total of 14 volatile organic compounds (n-hexane, cyclohexane, n-heptane, noctane, n-nonane, n-decane, n-undecane, styrene, o-xylene, m,p-xylene, 1,2,4-trimethyl benzene, ethylbenzene, benzene, and toluene.) were quantified. The annual mean concentrations for total VOCs (TVOCs) were 216. 61 ± 75.15, 656.34 ± 220.82, 681.75 ± 219.83, 129.51 ± 45.24 and 82.67 ± 40.96 µg/m 3 for MP, MG, BT, HT and RESID respectively. The results were found to be higher than the prescribed standards and earlier reported indoor VOCs levels. Indoor/outdoor ratios (I/O), correlation analyses, seasonal variations and indoor/outdoor contributions to the measured levels are also investigated.

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Indoor VOCs from Religious and Ritual Burning Practices in India

Pervez

Dewangan

Chakrabarty

et al. 2014

Aerosol Air Qual. Res.

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“…On the other hand this concentration is less than the annual mean concentration (Arithmetic mean) 247 µg/m 3 recorded by Järnström in Finland (55) ; 0.1 -99.3 µg/m 3 reported by Kim (16) ; 143 µg/m 3 measured by Langer and Bekö in Sweden (56) ; 138 µg/m 3 measured by Rehwagen in Germany (57) ; 202 µg/m 3 recorded by Raw in England (measured in bedrooms) (58) ; 0.2-159 µg/m 3 measured by Sinha (59) ; 123 µg/m 3 average concentration for 53 VOCs recorded by Jia in southeast Michigan, USA (25) and 2-137 µg/m 3 recorded by Hamidin in residential indoor air of Brisbane, Australia (22) . Figure 5 showed seasonal variation of the mean concentrations of total volatile organic compounds.…”

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VOCs Levels in Indoor and Outdoor Residential Homes in Helwan, Egypt

2015

Egypt. J. Chem.

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“…Smoke from biomass burning has some unique components, but also shares many physical and chemical characteristics with emissions from other combustion sources (Fine et al, 2004;Hays et al, 2005;Clinton et al, 2006;Sinha et al, 2006;Dhammapala et al, 2007;Gustafson et al, 2007;Bergauff et al, 2008;Braun et al, 2008). Unlike the traditionally regulated fossil fuel combustion sources that burn specific fuel types under relatively well-controlled and efficient combustion conditions, biomass burning can involve multiple types of fuels (i.e., different woods, grasses, peat, crop residues, animal dung, etc., with varying composition and water content) burned under different conditions (i.e., smoldering versus flaming).…”

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Wood smoke risk assessment: Defining the questions

Morandi

Ward

2009

Inhalation Toxicology

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Risk assessment provides a framework for combining and evaluating scientific data on source-to-health effects for contaminants that could potentially affect the health of human populations. It utilizes an integrated approach to hazard identification, dose response, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. Since the range of potential exposure scenarios is considerable, given the complexity of wood-smoke sources and emissions, there is a need for defining the critical characteristics for the key parameters leading to adverse health outcomes. During the International Biomass Smoke and Health Effects (IBSHE) conference at the University of Montana (August 2007), the breakout group entitled "Risk Assessment: Defining the Questions" was tasked with evaluating the current state of the science in regard to risk assessment involving biomass smoke exposure. As a result of these discussions, important data gaps and future research questions were identified that are reported in this article.

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Environmental monitoring of benzene and toluene produced in indoor air due to combustion of solid biomass fuels

Cited by 56 publications

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Indoor VOCs from Religious and Ritual Burning Practices in India

Indoor VOCs from Religious and Ritual Burning Practices in India

VOCs Levels in Indoor and Outdoor Residential Homes in Helwan, Egypt

Wood smoke risk assessment: Defining the questions

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