Author:Â Sachin Dhawan
Abstract: The indoor air quality is deteriorating day by day. A lot of studies are done on outdoor air pollution due to vehicles and industrial sources, but, very few studies are done on indoor air pollution. This study focuses on the indoor air pollution inside automobile parking – lots due to vehicles and vehicular movements. The major pollutants that emit from the vehicles are CO, VOC, particulate matter, Sox, NOx. This paper focuses on the pollution due to CO and VOC inside car parking. These pollutants are very toxic and have very harmful health effects. Some of the VOCs are known to be carcinogenic. High levels of CO can even cause death. There are some techniques such as bio filtration and photo catalytic oxidation are also discussed.
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