Indoor Environmental Quality: Select Proceedings of the 1st ACIEQ

by Arun Sharma, Radha Goyal, Richie Mittal

Overview

This volume presents selected papers presented during the First Asian Conference on Indoor Environmental Quality (ACIEQ). The contents cover themes of indoor air quality monitoring and modeling; the influence of confounding factors like thermal comfort parameters, such as temperature and relative humidity with respect to different building types, e.g., residential, commercial, institutional; ventilation characteristics, lighting and acoustics. It also focuses on people's performance, productivity, and behavior with respect to their exposure to various indoor air pollutants and parameters influencing the overall indoor environmental quality. This volume is primarily aimed at researchers working in environmental science and engineering, building architecture and design, HVAC and ventilation, public health, and epidemiology. The contents of this volume will also be useful to policy makers working on occupational health and building codes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811513336
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	01/03/2020
Series:	Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , #60
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Arun Kumar Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Head of the Department of Bio-statistics and Medical Informatics at the University College of Medical Sciences, India. He has done his MBBS from University of Calcutta and MD and DNBE in community medicine from Banaras Hindu University, in addition to having done fellowships with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain (USA),University of Pennsylvania (USA), and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (USA). Prof Sharma's research work studies the impact of pollutants on the respiratory health of urban populations as well as the impact of HIV and diabetes.

Radha Goyal is the Deputy Director of the Indian Pollution Control Association (IPCA), where she is responsible for all research and development related activities and projects of IPCA in area of air and waste management. Dr Goyal is in charge of the Air Quality Management Services (AQMS) division of IPCA, specifically working on indoor air quality, in addition to being a principal investigator for a number of projects mapping air quality in Delhi NCR and assessing its impact. She has done her PhD from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Richie Mittal is the Managing Director of OverDrive Engineering Private Limited, which specialized in energy efficient design and engineering of air conditioning and cooling systems for enclosed facilities. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Indoor Air Quality Association (USA), and is a member of many professional societies and associations.

Table of Contents

Comparison of Indoor Air Quality for Air Conditioned and Naturally Ventilated Office Spaces in Urban Area.- Status of Carbonaceous Aerosol at Indoor Environment of a Cafeteria in Delhi, India-A Case Study.- Assessment of Indoor Fine and Ultra-Fine Particulate Matter in a Research Laboratory.- Air Pollution in Rural Households Due to Solid Biomass Fuel Use and Its Health Impacts.- Characteristics of PM from Different South Indian Cooking Methods and Implications in Health Effects.- Chamber Studies for Indoor Air Quality Modeling and Monitoring.- Hospital Indoor Air Quality in Respect to Transmission of Infection.- Environmental Monitoring Of PM2.5 and CO2 in Indoor Office Spaces of Delhi, India.- Examination of Particle Characteristics and Quantification of Emission Factors for Smoke Generated From a Popular Indian Incense Burnt in An Experimental Chamber.- Comparison of Efficiency of Active and Passive Method of Bioaerosols Estimation.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: John T. Pierce, MBBS (MD) PhD(Navy Environmental Health Center)
Description: This book summarizes 17 papers presented during the first Asian conference on indoor environmental quality in 2019. Major themes include air quality monitoring and modeling, thermal comfort parameters, and human responses in such environments. This book is part of Springer's Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering.
Purpose: The primary purpose is to provide a permanent record of these important papers.
Audience: Even though co-editors Sharma, Goyal, and Mittal describe their audience as researchers in environmental science and engineering, architectural, HVAC and ventilation, and public health, I would expand that definition slightly to include practitioners and researchers in those sorts of protective capacities.
Features: Seventeen papers or chapters are included: Comparison of indoor air quality for A/C and naturally ventilated office spaces, status of carbonaceous aerosol in a cafeteria, assessment of indoor fine and ultra-fine particulate matter in a research laboratory, air pollution in rural households, characteristics of PM from different South Indian cooking, chamber studies for indoor air quality modeling, hospital indoor air quality and infection, environmental monitoring of PM2.5 and CO2 in offices, examination of particle characteristics (incense burning), efficiency of active and passive methods of bioaerosol estimation, impact of lighting and student performance, exposure to particulate matter in classrooms and laboratories, assessment of indoor environmental quality and impacts on occupants, classroom ventilation and its impact on students' performance, indoor air quality and thermal comfort in a green building, heterogenous photocatalysis for indoor air purification, and experimental investigation of ISHRAE IEQ standard.
Assessment: Readers will be delighted with the findings contained in nearly 15 contributed entries as well as the three invited papers (Professors Hedge, Carrer, and Dear). Some readers' reactions may be to initially regard findings of an indoor air conference held in India as perhaps only applicable to the Indian sub-continent, but I do not agree. Given the enormous challenges of air improvement in mega-cities such as Delhi, these findings are immediately applicable at a time that indoor air pollutants of all kinds are meriting increased attention.

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