DOI: https://doi.org/10.22263/2312-4156.2018.4.78
Prosviryakova I.A., Sheuchuk L.M.
Hygienic evaluation of atmospheric air pollution by solid particles on the example of enterprises for manufacturing building materials
Scientific-Practical Centre of Hygiene, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Vestnik VGMU. 2018;17(4):78-83.
Abstract.
Objectives. To make a hygienic assessment of the contamination by solid particles of the atmospheric air of residential areas, located in the zones of influence of stationary sources of industrial enterprises for the production of building materials.
Material and methods. The hygienic assessment of atmospheric air pollution by solid particles is based on the results of calculations of the dispersion of industrial emissions of 30 enterprises for the production of building materials and the results of analytical (laboratory) monitoring in the areas directly adjacent to the boundaries of the sanitary protection zones of enterprises. The degree of atmospheric air pollution by solid particles in the area of the location of enterprises has been determined by the «P» indicator value, the value of the air quality index and the level of the population’s health risk from industrial emissions of particulate matter have been also established.
Results. On the territories of settlements located in the zones of influence of industrial enterprises, there are cases of excess of the established hygienic norm of the content of particulate matter in the atmospheric air. Ambient air pollution by solid particles in 79.30% of cases was characterized by an «acceptable» degree, in 13.80% of cases – «weak» and in 6.90% of cases - by a «moderate» degree. The predicted level of risk varied from «acceptable» to «high», the level of predicted morbidity in the exposed population varied from background to exceeding background by several times.
Conclusions. The obtained data confirm the urgency of the determination of the particulates disperse composition, both for assessing the quality of the atmospheric air in the residential areas and the effect of fine-disperse solid particles on the health of the population.
Key words: ambient air, fine-disperse particulates, enterprise, health risk, residential area.
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Information about authors:
Prosviryakova I.A. – senior research officer of the Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Health Risk Analysis Technologies, Scientific-Practical Centre of Hygiene;
Sheuchuk L.M. – Candidate of Medical Sciences, associate professor, deputy director for research work, Scientific-Practical Centre of Hygiene.
Correspondence address: Republic of Belarus, 220012, Minsk, 8 Akademicheskaya str., Scientific-Practical Centre of Hygiene, Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Health Risk Analysis Technologies. E-mail: Этот адрес электронной почты защищён от спам-ботов. У вас должен быть включен JavaScript для просмотра. – Inna A. Prosviryakova.
