Indoor air CO2 assessment of classrooms of educational institutes of hyderabad city and its comparison with other countries

Soomro, Majid Ali; Memon, Sheeraz; Shaikh, Muhammad Mujtaba; Channa, Azizullah

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“…The main aspects that influence air quality are vehicle traffic, fuel burning, industries [47,49,50], and the low performance of air conditioning systems (HVAC) [51]. Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from indoor air is one of the critical factors in determining IAQ [47,[52][53][54][55].…”

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“…Students comfort, health and productivity (learning efficiency and attention during classes) could be dependent of the IAQ. This includes a decrease in students' performance, spread of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 [52] and different social and economic repercussions [49,59]. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recommends to increase natural ventilation, improve central air filtration or other HVAC systems that can be operated for extended hours (24/7 if possible), and the use portable HEPA purifiers.…”

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This work presents the Campus City initiative followed by the Challenge Living Lab platform to promote research, innovation, and entrepreneurship with the intention to create urban infrastructure and creative talent (human resources) that solves different community, industrial and government Pain Points within a Smart City ecosystem. The main contribution of this work is to present a working model and the open innovation ecosystem used in Tecnologico de Monterrey that could be used as both, a learning mechanism as well as a base model for scaling it up into a Smart Campus and Smart City. Moreover, this work presents the Smart Energy challenge as an example of a pedagogic opportunity for the development of competencies. This included the pedagogic design of the challenge, the methodology followed by the students and the results. Finally, a discussion on the findings and learnings of the model and challenge implementation. Results showed that Campus City initiative and the Challenge Living Lab allows the identification of highly relevant and meaningful challenges while providing a pedagogic framework in which students are highly motivated, engaged, and prepared to tackle different problems that involve government, community, industry, and academia.

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“…Measurements outside the dormitories simply served for comparison with scenario 5B, hence the knowledge gap classification is similar. 5D LV For classrooms, several studies have been conducted (reported by Soomro et al, 2019). Variation is large (Rmax-Rmin>5*Rstd).…”

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An Evaluation of Best Practices in an Air Quality Student Science Project in Ethiopia

Dingemanse

Wit

2022

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A science project as part of a student's curriculum, which we call student science, might be the answer to two problems for a low-income country like Ethiopia: conventional science can be expensive and many students lack training in practical skills. Earlier studies have been conducted with respect to lay people (citizens or students) conducting (parts of) research (e.g. citizen science), but rarely in the context of a public university in a lowincome country. A student science project at Arba Minch University (Ethiopia) has been evaluated in three steps. Firstly, best practices for student science projects are derived from the literature. Secondly, it is evaluated to what extent these best practices were executed in an air quality student science project executed by 33 groups of undergraduate students at Arba Minch University. Thirdly, the scientific contribution of the project is evaluated by assessing the quality of the data in comparison to studies in similar scenarios, as well as its relation to a knowledge gap and a problem for the community. We find that the best practices from earlier studies are feasible in the study context. Furthermore, we find a scientific contribution, as most of the students' work resulted in quality data that relates to knowledge gaps which are a problem for the Arba Minch community. Student science at a public university in a low-income country is feasible and can, as such, serve both scientific and educational needs. It is recommended that public universities in low-income contexts implement part of their curriculum goals in such projects.

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“…For instance, while outdoors air pollution is justifiably a focus of much research worldwide, work that considers it in relation to schooling tends to be limited to higher income countries, and little is known about the impact of air pollution for students in lower income countries (Chen, 2018). Likewise, while ventilation research has been conducted in a range of European countries, the USA, UAE, and India (Soomro et al, 2019), and indoor and outdoor measurements of air quality exist for universities in Spain and China (Alves et al, 2020) such studies are again rare for lower income countries. And yet it is precisely in lower income countries, where the topic of air quality in relation to higher education is especially urgent.…”

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While PM 2.5 and CO are useful measures of combustion-related air pollution, universities' indoor air quality measures often focus on carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). CO 2 is an indicator of quality of ventilation, and increased CO 2 concentrations have adverse health effects and on cognitive performance by causing drowsiness, headache, and loss of attention (Soomro et al, 2019). Such effects are a problem at campuses, where both a great deal of brainwork is needed, and a lot of people might gather in less-ventilated spaces.

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Using student science to identify research priority areas for air pollution in a university environment: an Ethiopian case study

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Abiyu

Tesfaye³

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Clean Air J.

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Students in a country like Ethiopia face a double air pollution challenge: they are frequently exposed (both outdoors and indoors) to sources of incomplete combustion and therefore to unhealthy concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) and carbon monoxide (CO), while they also face increased carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in crowded dormitories and classrooms. Research on air pollution in the environment of Ethiopian students is scarce. This lack of research can be fixed by involving students in science through a student science project, essentially a subset of citizen science. Students of Arba Minch University, Ethiopia, conducted measurements of PM2.5, CO, and CO2 under self-selected circumstances. Their measurements are compared to guideline values related to health effects to identify priority areas for future research. For PM2.5, students’ measurements show likely exceedances of guideline values for an inside coffee ceremony, close to open waste burning, at a bus station and close to a diesel generator. For CO, exceedances are revealed in kitchens and the visitor’s area of restaurants using biomass fuel, close to outdoor charcoal cooking and close to waste burning. For CO2, exceedances are found within student dormitories. These areas can be considered priority areas for further research. Students can conduct additional measurements to distinguish other relevant scenarios. Insight into exposure can be improved if, besides different concentrations under different circumstances, also time durations of these different circumstances are studied. The findings reveal that students themselves can be a partial solution to research and resource gaps in their context.

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Indoor air CO2 assessment of classrooms of educational institutes of hyderabad city and its comparison with other countries

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities

Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities

An Evaluation of Best Practices in an Air Quality Student Science Project in Ethiopia

Using student science to identify research priority areas for air pollution in a university environment: an Ethiopian case study

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