Volume 14 Issue 3 February - April 2019
Case Study
Surajit Panda *, Manish Kumar Jain**,
Krishnendu Banerjee***, A. T. Jeyaseelan ****
*-*** Indian Institute of Technology
(ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.
**** Consultant, National Remote
Sensing Centre (NRSC) & Former Scientist of NRSC / ISRO.
Panda,S., Jain,M.K., Banerjee,K., and
Jeyaseelan, A.T. (2019). Assessment of Air Quality Health Index: Status of
Ambient Air Quality for Noamundi Mines and Surrounding Area, Jharkhand.i-manager’s
Journal on Future Engineering and Technology,14 (3), 20-26. https://doi.org/10.26634/jfet.14.3.15285
Abstract
In modern years,
numerous occurrences of air pollution proceedings in India have periodically
caused terror and an important issue of discussion by pollution specialists of
government and non-government organization or institutes. It may cause both
long and short-term impacts on the environment and human health. Therefore,
Canadian Environmental division proposed a new term, Air Quality Health Index
(AQHI) to measure the air quality status, based on health effects. In the
present study, Noamundi mining area has been considered to study the Air
Quality Health status as it is an active mines area. The PM10(Particulate
Matter), PM2.5, SO2 (Sulphur Dioxide), and NOx (Nitrogen Oxides) have been
used as main air pollutants for the analysis. Normally, the results of AQHI
varied in between 1 to 10, but it may be rarely higher above 10 through
critical or very high pollution episodes like smoke. The higher pollution is
observed at western to south-western part of the study area (Average: 6-10).
Somewhere in south-western part of the study area, it needs the limit of
critical pollution level (above 10). The north-western, North-eastern part of
the study area reflects the low level of health risk (within 3) and
south-eastern part of the study area registered the moderate level (health risk
6). From the Exceedence Factor (EF) analysis, it is concluded that the PM2.5 and PM10 are the main
reasons for higher health risk at south-western part as it falls in the core
zone of the mining.
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