| Title: | Quantitative evaluation of total volatile organic compounds in urban and rural schools of southern Brazil |
| Author(s): | Lima BD; Kautzmann RM; da Silveira FR; da Silva Civeira M; de Vargas FC; Taffarel SR; |
| Address: | "Postgraduate Program in Remote Sensing, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Goncalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil. bianca_duli@hotmail.com. Postgraduate Program in Environmental Impact Assessment, Universidade La Salle, Av. Victor Barreto 2288, Canoas, RS, 92010-000, Brazil. Postgraduate Program in Mines, Metallurgy and Materials, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Goncalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil" |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10661-020-08591-w |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1573-2959 (Electronic) 0167-6369 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Volatile organic compounds, VOCs, are air pollutants widely produced by biogenic and anthropogenic sources. This work quantitatively studied the presence of these gases in the internal and external environments of schools, comparing one in an urban area (La Salle School, Canoas, RS) and another in a rural area (Santa Cassia Farm School, Nova Santa Rita, RS). The aim of this study was to compare if this environmental differences (location) influence their gases concentration. Monitoring campaigns were conducted for 6 months, occurring every 2 weeks in both schools during class hours, 1 day indoors and 1 day outdoors. The results showed higher concentrations of total volatile organic compounds in the urban school external environment compared with the same rural school environment and, in the comparison between environments, the internal environments of the two schools obtained higher VOC concentrations than the external ones, except in November and December at the urban school" |
| Keywords: | "Air Pollutants/*analysis Air Pollution, Indoor/*analysis Brazil Environmental Monitoring Humans Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis Air pollution Children health Schools Volatile organic compounds;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineLima, Bianca Dutra de Kautzmann, Rubens Muller da Silveira, Fernanda Rosa da Silva Civeira, Matheus de Vargas, Fernanda Cauduro Taffarel, Silvio Roberto eng Netherlands 2020/09/11 Environ Monit Assess. 2020 Sep 9; 192(10):634. doi: 10.1007/s10661-020-08591-w" |
