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Pollution Air Pollution

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ABSTRACT

Air pollution are one of the most important environmental issues world wide . In this study pollutant CO, BC, PM were measured to determine the ambient air quality in Noida, U.P.. The average concentration of CO, BC,PM10,PM2.5 ,PM0.1 were found to be 1.54ppm, 25107.82 ug/mᶾ, 1737.16 ug/mᶾ, 341.45 ug/mᶾ, 260.19 ug/mᶾ in respectively institutional site , 3.86ppm, 16829.65 ug/mᶾ , 632.68 ug/mᶾ , 299.38 ug/mᶾ , 247.16 ug/mᶾ in respectively arterial site ,7.77ppm , 23112.56 ug/mᶾ, 466.29 ug/mᶾ, 145.18 ug/mᶾ, 111.17 ug/mᶾ in respectively expressway. Traffic congestion increases vehicle exhaust emissions resulting of which ambient air quality degraded. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of traffic related air pollution at various sites in Noida. To determined the health effects in locations , questionnaires were prepared and distributed to selected individuals each who live and work in the selected area. The result obtained from questionnaire showed that at institutional and expressway site number of effected person were more.

Key word index : traffic, carbon monoxide (CO), black carbon (BC), particulate matter(PM)

1. INTRODUCTION

In India high influx of population to urban areas, which led to growing cites, increase in traffic, industrialization and higher levels of energy consumption. This led the problem of air pollution. The main source of air pollution is vehicular emission which is of great concern.
Cars, buses, trucks and

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