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Infant target facilities and facilities for children in elementary school Comparison and Improvement of Indoor Air Quality for Research

영유아 대상 시설의 실내공기질 특성 비교 및 개선방안에 대한 연구

  • Seo, Byong-Won (Department of Environmental Engineering, KwangWoon University) ;
  • Lee, Ju-Hwa (DaeHyun Environment research institute) ;
  • Park, Ji-Hoon (Department of Environmental Engineering, KwangWoon University) ;
  • Kang, Seon-Hong (Department of Environmental Engineering, KwangWoon University)
  • 서병원 (광운대학교 환경공학과) ;
  • 이주화 ((주)대현환경 부설연구소) ;
  • 박지훈 (광운대학교 환경공학과) ;
  • 강선홍 (광운대학교 환경공학과)
  • Received : 2013.09.04
  • Accepted : 2013.10.14
  • Published : 2013.10.15

Abstract

In modern society, we are living indoor at 80 - 90 % or more of the day, therefore most people are exposed to unconscious indoor air pollutants by various causes. When mother and infant, whose level of immunity are weak, are exposed to polluted indoor air, respiratory diseases and atopy can occur by the growth of bacteria. Therefore, appropriate indoor air quality management is important especially at nursery, elementary school and postpartum clinic etc. In this study, we compared the characteristics of the indoor air qualities of primary school facilities and infant facilities. In this study, seasonal effects were investigated. Also the effects of individual activity area were studied for indoor air quality. During summer season(May-August), the air qualities of each 16 elementary school and nursery school were investigated. During winter season(October-december), the air qualities of each 10 elementary school and nursery school were investigated. As a result, during winter season in 10 of 16 nursery school, $CO_2$ concentration exceeded regulation level of 1000 ppm. This resulted from the operation of heating system and poor ventilation. Also the air quality of all parameters during winter season were worse than during summer, maybe due to poor ventilation. Except HCHO, the concentrations of other parameters were higher in nursery school. This seems to result from relatively low individual activity area of nursery school than elementary school. From this research, more strong regulation for ventilation and installation of air purifier should be implemented.

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