THE EFFECT OF EASTERN KENTUCKY COAL FIRES ON LOCAL AIR QUALITY AND PERSONAL HEALTH

Abstract Background Quantifying the effects of personal health behaviors and environmental exposure on asthma flare-ups is a challenge. Most studies have focused on monitoring the symptoms and drug usage for relieving symptoms. In this study, we emphasize the need to understand how personal and environmental conditions are related to the occurrence of asthma symptoms. Methods We designed an online health diary platform to collect personal health behaviors from children, their parents and other adults with any allergic diseases including asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis and allergic conjunctivitis. The participants used mobile devices or computers to record their daily health-related activities such as sleep, exercise, diet, perception of air quality and temperature, and asthma symptoms. The participants also recorded secondhand smoke exposure and the time of activities, which were combined with ambient air quality measurements for calculating personal air pollution exposure. A generalized linear mixed model was used to estimate the effects of the factors. Results During the study period (January 2017–June 2017, and October 2017–September 2018), 132 participants provided 25,016 diary entries, and 84 participants had experienced asthma symptoms in 1458 diary entries. The results showed some different risk factors for the minors and adults. For minors, high-intensity exercise, contact with persons with influenza-like illness (ILI) and the perception of hot temperature and bad indoor air quality were associated with the occurrence of asthma episodes. The identified risk factors for the adult participants included having dehumidifiers at home, exposure to secondhand smoke, having bad sleep quality, contact with persons with ILI, not eating fruit and seafood, perceiving cold temperature, bad quality of indoor and outdoor air, and exposure to high concentration of ozone. Conclusions The revealed personal risk factors and perceptions of air quality and temperature may provide guidance on behavioral change for people susceptible to asthma to help control acute onset and severe exacerbation of asthma flare-ups.

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Portable Air Quality Detector for Personal Health Monitoring

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.f4802.049620 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 1907-1910

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Air Quality ◽

General Population ◽

Gas Sensors ◽

Indoor Air ◽

Health Monitoring ◽

Associate Degree ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Personal Health ◽

Personal Health Monitoring

Low standards of air quality are amongst the greatest in ranks of risks to public health as well as the risks to climatic conditions. A substantial amount of costs and efficiency misfortunes are identified with poor indoor air quality. Air quality is extraordinarily troublesome for plenty to gauge or sense; therefore, the general population can't say whether air quality is undesirable. In the interim, the vast majority of the predominant air quality action gadgets are intended for experts; It is expensive and on the far side the compass of normal clients. Throughout this paper, associate degree robot application based mostly real-time air quality watching system is created, which could be handily used for private body space micro-climate watching and conjointly useful for individuals suffering from metabolism bother by unceasingly watching the parameters that are harmful. The detector node is enforced with a most well-liked Arduino prototyping board, a Bluetooth module, and a form of low-priced small gas-sensors.

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Fossil Fuel Fires: A Forgotten Factor of Air Quality

10.5772/intechopen.96294 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Łukasz Kruszewski

Keyword(s):

Air Quality ◽

Coal Seam ◽

Fossil Fuel ◽

Gas Analysis ◽

Mining Waste ◽

Barren Rock ◽

Atmospheric Air ◽

Coal Fires ◽

Ftir Spectrometer

Spontaneous fossil fuel fires, especially coal fires, are known worldwide. They occur in numerous sites, both completely natural (coal seam outcrops) and anthropogenic (burning mining waste heaps, or BMWHs). Coal and waste/barren rock fires produce gaseous emanations, acting within exhalative processes. This factor is rarely being considered as influencing quality of the atmospheric air. The paper shortly discusses most important available methods for field gas analysis, with an emphasis on a portable FTIR spectrometer. It summarizes results of gas analyses from Polish BMWHs, using a multi-tool approach. It also lists a number of additional analyses from 53 vents of these environmentally important objects, with the main purpose of enlarging the knowledge of the span of concentrations of the particular compounds. This is especially true for formaldehyde, pyridine, CO, 1,1,1-trichloroethene, 1,1-dichloroethene, cumene, SO2, and, to a lesser extent, NO2, CCl4, ethane, propane, ethene, and thiophene. The latter, and DMS, are confirmed as gaseous S source more frequent and rich than SO2.

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CO2, CO, and Hg emissions from the Truman Shepherd and Ruth Mullins coal fires, eastern Kentucky, USA

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.12.005 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 408 (7) ◽

pp. 1628-1633 ◽

Cited By ~ 68

Author(s):

Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe ◽

Kevin R. Henke ◽

James C. Hower ◽

Mark A. Engle ◽

Glenn B. Stracher ◽

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Keyword(s):

Eastern Kentucky ◽

Coal Fires

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Application of Electron Optics to Characterization of Particulate Pollutants

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010009508x ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

pp. 364-365

Author(s):

J. B. Moran ◽

J. L. Miller

Keyword(s):

Air Quality ◽

Quality Standards ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Hazardous Substances ◽

Fuel Additives ◽

Ambient Air Quality ◽

Air Quality Standards ◽

Emission Standards ◽

Stationary Sources ◽

Ambient Air Quality Standards

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 provide the basis for a dramatic change in Federal air quality programs. The Act establishes new standards for motor vehicles and requires EPA to establish national ambient air quality standards, standards of performance for new stationary sources of pollution, and standards for stationary sources emitting hazardous substances. Further, it establishes procedures which allow states to set emission standards for existing sources in order to achieve national ambient air quality standards. The Act also permits the Administrator of EPA to register fuels and fuel additives and to regulate the use of motor vehicle fuels or fuel additives which pose a hazard to public health or welfare.National air quality standards for particulate matter have been established. Asbestos, mercury, and beryllium have been designated as hazardous air pollutants for which Federal emission standards have been proposed.

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