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Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Systems in the IoT Environment (IoT 기반 실내 공기질 모니터링 시스템)

  • Oh, Chang-Se;Seo, Min-Seok;Lee, Jung-Hyuck;Kim, Sang-Hyun;Kim, Young-Don;Park, Hyun-Ju
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.886-891
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    • 2015
  • Recently, The World Health Organization announced that harms human health because of air pollution that are emerging as threats to human health worldwide. according to the, Seoul, 2011 According to a July 2014 - Public Facilities indoor air quality measurements, were examined to be in violation of indoor air pollution standards in most multi-use facility. Indoor air pollution resulting from this is present in the paper, and cause disease, such as pulmonary disease, asthma, bronchitis and to In this connection, the measurement of indoor air quality by using the environment sensor, analyzing the measured data to generate an actuator signal required for ventilation and improve indoor air quality by implementing a monitoring system with real-time measurement, autonomously managing the air quality in our lives so that it can be.

Status of particulate matter pollution in urban railway environments (도시철도 환경의 미세먼지 오염 현황)

  • Kim, Jong Bum;Lee, Seung-Bok;Bae, Gwi-Nam
    • Journal of odor and indoor environment
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.303-314
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    • 2018
  • The urban railway system is a convenient public transportation system, as it carries many people without increasing traffic congestion. However, air quality in urban railway environments is worse than ambient air quality due to the internal location of the source of air pollutants and the isolated space. In this paper, characteristics of particulate matter (PM) pollution in urban railway environments are described from the perspective of diurnal variation, chemical composition and source apportionment of PM. PM concentrations in concourse, platform, passenger cabin, and tunnel are summarized through an analysis of 34 journal articles published in Korea and overseas. This information will be helpful in developing effective policies to reduce PM pollution in urban railway environments.

Properties of Water-based Paint mixed with Photocatalyst for Indoor Air Quality Improvement (실내 공기질 개선을 위한 광촉매를 혼입한 수성도료의 특성)

  • Choi, Byung-Cheol;Park, Chae-Wool;Kyoung, In-Su;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2020.06a
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    • pp.29-30
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    • 2020
  • As the modern society enters, the building becomes sealed and the public's interest in the environment increases, so the interest in indoor air pollution increases and the environmental pollution is raised as an important issue not only outdoors but also indoors. In addition, the emergence of sick house syndrome (SHS) has increased the interest in formaldehyde and is a cause of deteriorating indoor air quality. Accordingly, this study prepared a functional paint by incorporating a photocatalyst in an aqueous paint, and conducted formaldehyde adsorption experiments and functional evaluation. As a result of the experiment, as the photocatalyst was added, the formaldehyde adsorption performance tended to increase. In addition, as a result of measuring the impact resistance and alkali resistance according to the KS standard, there is no difference in residual cracks and cracks between the water-based paint without the photocatalyst and the water-based paint with the photocatalyst added. Therefore, it is considered that the water-based paint added with a photocatalyst can improve the indoor air quality by adsorbing formaldehyde and can be used as a functional paint because the functionality is not different from that of a general water-based paint.

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Review of Air Pollution and the Related Regulations in China

  • Qi, Shang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Health Society Conference
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    • 2003.06a
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    • pp.50-65
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    • 2003
  • Air pollution is very serious in China. This paper reviews the relevant research and countermeasures in China. The followings are focused in this article: 1) three major types of air pollutions: sulphur dioxide, vehicle emission and indoor air pollution; 2) the health effect of the three types of pollution; 3) major countermeasures adopted by Chinese Government.

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Influence Factors and Management based on Phase of Building Construction for the Improvement of Post Occupancy Indoor Air Quality

  • Lim, Hyoung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.576-586
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    • 2011
  • In recent years, pollution in residential spaces has been a significant area of concern. In particular, the indoor air quality (IAQ) of an apartment building before occupancy, which is related to the interior material, is a serious problem. Unlike previous research, which has mainly focused on pollution control after construction, this study has derived influencing factors and priority of management with a controlling schedule for IAQ. The objectives of this research are 1) control of schedule or improvement of management for IAQ, 2) distribution of responsibility to the parties concerned (factory, material company, construction company, design and engineering, occupancy). The results show the relative priority of the four major items in wall?based apartment buildings and in column?based apartment buildings. An analysis of the parties responsible for improvement based on the IAQ results shows more efforts to improve IAQ are needed in material factories and engineering/design companies.

A study on the construction technology for major building material to reduce indoor air pollution (실내오염물질방출저감을 위한 주요건축자재의 시공기술에 관한 연구)

  • Heo, Jung-Yong;Choi, Chang-Ho;Ann, Hyung-June;Lee, Yun-Gyu
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.143-148
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    • 2007
  • Recently indoor air pollution caused by exposing hazardous chemicals (VOCs, formaldehyde) due to undiscriminated use of new construction materials and air-tightness to save energy is becoming a big issue. We have developed technologies to estimate the amounts of contaminants from constructions materials and method. We have further developed construction technologies to reduce and characterize these contaminants. The developed technologies were then refined to eliminate defects through considering field applicability.

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A Study on the Indoor Air Quality of Public Entertainment Facilities. (공공위락 시설의 실내 공기환경에 관한 연구)

  • 정재국
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.143-152
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    • 1998
  • This study aims to suggest ventilation design data for Public Entertainment Facilities in relation to Indoor Air Quality. The concentration of indoor air pollution such as CO, CO2, RH, Radon, HCHO, TSP was investigate, and the reguired ventilation rate of Public Rooms was calculated. As resuits of this study, the following conclusion could be obtained. Field measurement of P.E.F reveals that the concentration of CO2 was mist polluted and higher than IAQ standard, while that of other pollutats did not exceed the standard. In underground the concentration of CO2 increased 1130ppm(2 persons) 2170ppm(4 persons) 1970ppm(6 persons). The CO2 pollution was serions problem in underground more than second floor, in only exhaust ventilation system more than exhaust and supply system.

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An Investigation of Citizen's Attitude on the Harmful Insects in House (주택에서의 유해생물에 대한 시민 인식도 조사)

  • 김영환;손종렬;문경환;변상훈
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.36-40
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of study was to suggest an investigation of citizen's attitude on harmful insects in house. This study was consisted of four parts, such as basic investigation (housing shape, housing material, the period of house constructed, a cleaning condition), condition of kitchen, condition of living room condition of bathroom. The environmental pollution was increased by the development of industry and urbanization in modern. And also the clean of house has related with air quality such as pollutants and harmful insects etc. Because dwelling shape of urban come to be crowded, shut tightly and high buildings, the air quality of indoor was gradually polluted by several irregular cause. In one of housing pollution, the harmful insects was important any other than indoor air pollution. The problems of kitchen were the odor of food waste, discharge system of sewage and harmful insects. The important issues of living room were mold and construction materials, then important them of bathroom were easing nature and discharge system of sewage. A kind of the harmful insects in house investigated cockroach> mosquito> ant>fly. Finally, it appeared that the control of harmful insects can be applied to the improvement of indoor air pollutant which are difficult to be controlled in house.

A Study on Predication model for TVOC Emissions of Finishing material in Apartment House (공동주택 건축내장재의 TVOC 방출량에 관한 예측모델 연구)

  • Kim, Hyung-Soo;Lee, Kyung-Hoi
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2002
  • While cognition about an environment pollution becomes important recently, the intense pollution measures about an indoor air environment is required. In the case of building indoor environment, over 80% of modem people is living in building and these days an interest of building interior materials which becomes a reason for indoor environmental pollution in public house, office, is increasing. An experimental measurement method of this study is as follows. (1) American EPA TO-17, ASTMD5116-97, measurement method in VOCs experiment of Japanese closet industrial association (2) 2.4-DNPH cartridge method in HCHO experiment, based on American EPA TO-11 and measurement method of Japanese closet industrial association (3) standard compound is analyzed by using HPLC after solvent extraction process (4) paint and furniture are selected as measurement objects (5) we also made small chamber to grasp an emission characteristic of HCHO and VOCs and to get an environment-amicable forecast model through it, then we developed the model which can forecast emission rate by chamber experiment.

A Study on the Analysis of $CO_2$ Concentration Variation According to the Indoor Space Condition Changes (다양한 실내 환경에서의 $CO_2$ 농도 변화 분석 연구)

  • Ahn, Gwang-Hoon;Kwon, Jong-Won;Kim, Gyu-Sik;Kim, Hie-Sik
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.347-349
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    • 2009
  • Air quality of indoor space environment is affected by various pollutants like as particles and chemical stuffs. The indoor air pollution affects directly the human respiration organs to cause consequently unpleasant mental status. The $CO_2$ concentration level is one of the harmful components of air pollutants. Major factor to increase the $CO_2$ concentration level is the people's breath amount in indoor. The car exhaust gas diffused from the around road also has strong affect on $CO_2$ concentration. There are some other reasons to affect the $CO_2$ concentration change, such as, real-time change of the population movement, closeness to the indoor air flow inlet window and changes in road car traffic amount. A remote monitoring system to measure environmental indoor air pollution concerning on the $CO_2$ concentration was studied and installed realized set-up model. Zigbee network configuration was applied for this system and the $CO_2$ concentration data were collected through USN network. A software program was developed to assure systematic analysis and to display real-time data on web pages. For the experimental test various condition was set up, like as, window opening, stopping air condition operation and adjusting fan heater work, etc. The analysis result showed the relation of various environmental conditions to $CO_2$ concentration changes. The causes to increase $CO_2$ concentration were experimentally defined as windows closing, the stopping air condition system, fan heater operation. To keep the $CO_2$ concentration under the legally required ppm level in public access indoor space, the developed remote measurement system will be usefully applied.

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