[Stoves] Fwd: [stove and climate] Personal PM exposure journals

[Frank Shields]

Yes Paul - Very Interesting!




> On Nov 18, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> I found the message below about air quality to be extremely interesting.   It comes from Kirk Smith's Google Group, which is "stove" (without the final s in our Stoves Listserv.)   The address is at the end if you want to subscribe to it.  (only a few messages per month, without discussion back and forth.)
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> Subject:	[stove and climate] Personal PM exposure journals
> Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:35:49 -0800
> From:	Kirk Smith <krksmith at berkeley.edu> <mailto:krksmith at berkeley.edu>
> To:	'Kirk Smith' <krksmith at berkeley.edu> <mailto:krksmith at berkeley.edu>
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> Two trips, within and going out of India.  Note nearly 3 orders magnitude difference in exposure rates at different points.  I suppose the very clean aircraft air is partly due to  good filtering, but also because of clean outside air at 36,000 ft/k
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> [Using what is turning out to be a nicely functioning portable monitor reading in ug/m3 of PM2.5 (The Oceans, made in Hong Kong and retailing for $120 in Delhi).  Sorry to those who do not usually frame PM2.5 numbers in your head—remember the WHO level is 10 in these units, US standard is 12, and India’s is 40.  These are annual levels to stay healthy based on somewhat different criteria in each case.}
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> Domestic trip in India: Chennai to Delhi
> Hotel room in Chennai on awakening:  36
> At breakfast meeting in hotel: 56
> Outdoors waiting for car: 85
> In cab on the way to airport (no AC): 70
> At entrance to terminal: 80
> In terminal: 55
> In plane before take off: 50
> At take-off, it slowly declined and by the time the seatbelt light went off it was 1 (yes 1 and probably actually near zero since the device has no zero reading)
> 1 for entire flight and only drifted up to 5 when taxing to terminal in Delhi
> When plugged into ground power and full AC on the plane started up again – 1
> When door opened, it started to move up and in the jetway 210
> Baggage area: 180
> Outdoors 250
> Taxi (no AC) 210
> Outside our flat: 280
> Inside flat with two air cleaners going: 120
>  
> Delhi to Toronton to SFO
> Wake up in morning: 420 in living room, moved air cleaners from bedroom
> Web indicated nearby ambient monitor had reached over 600 during night
> After two hours, it came down outside to about 260 outside and about 65 in the flat 
> Gave away our air cleaners to friends in early eve and the level inside rose to about 200
> Get into taxi at 9:30 when it was 290 outsides
> Inside airport it was about 90
> Went to 1 during the rise to flight altitude after takeoff and stayed there for 14 hours 
> 6 in the jetway in Toronto
> 1-3 in various parts of the Toronto terminal.
> Note, the web showed the nearest government ambient monitor to read 21
> Jetway 6
> Flight to SFO: 1
> SFO terminal: 3
> Outdoors at terminal 10
> Home in Berkeley 5
> Web indicate nearest ambient monitor at 17
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