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- Title
Mitigation strategies to reduce particulate matter concentrations in civil engineering laboratories.
- Authors
Zumrut, Irem Bayram; Kale, Ozge Akboga; Tetik, Yilmaz Ogunc; Baradan, Selim
- Abstract
In the departments of civil engineering, many experiments are conducted in laboratories for educational and research purposes. Varying degrees of respirable dust are generated as the outcome of these experiments, which could cause harm to instructors' and students' health. This study is devised to highlight the importance of indoor air quality in university laboratories. As part of the research, four different particulate matter (PM) sizes (PM1.0, PM2.5, PM4.0, and PM10) were measured during specific experiments—sieve analysis, preparation of the concrete mixture, crushing aggregate by jaw crusher, dynamic triaxial compression test, sieve analysis of silt specimen, cleaning sieve by an air compressor, and proctor compaction test—being conducted periodically in the laboratories of civil engineering departments. The measured values are mainly high compared to indoor air quality standards. Mitigation strategies were applied to reduce indoor air PM levels in the three experiments that contained the highest PM levels. The results have shown that mitigation strategies applied as control measures could make a remarkable difference in protecting instructors and civil engineering students.
- Subjects
PARTICULATE matter; CIVIL engineers; ENGINEERING laboratories; CIVIL engineering; INDOOR air quality; AIR quality standards; DUST
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 8, p12340
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-024-31926-w