Evaluation of air quality in indoor and outdoor ambients: Impact of anti-COVID-19 actions

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)

Confidenciality: Si

Education area(s): Tècniques Cromatogràfiques Aplicades

Title in different languages: Evaluation of air quality in indoor and outdoor ambients: Impact of anti-COVID-19 actions

Abstract: This study determines Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in classrooms of a school in Tarragona from April to June 2021. Passive sampling employed Carbopack X tubes and thermal desorption with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. These values are compared to a study of VOCs performed at the same school in 2019. Nine aldehydes have also been determined in the same school, in houses and in industrial and urban populations, in parallel to VOCs determinations. The sampling of aldehydes was done with Radiello tubes and involved liquid desorption and liquid chromatography with UV detection. Risk values for exposure in outdoor environments have been calculated.

Subject: Química

Academic year: 2020-2021

Language: Anglès

Work's public defense date: 2021-06-28

Subject areas: Chemistry

Student: Ninyà Francin, Nicole

Department: Química Analítica i Química Orgànica

Creation date in repository: 2021-07-12

Keywords: air quality,indoor and outdoor sampling, passive sampling, VOCs, TD-GC-MS, aldehydes, LC-DAD

Title in original language: Evaluation of air quality in indoor and outdoor ambients: Impact of anti-COVID-19 actions

Access Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Project director: Borrull Ballarín, Francesc