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Indoor Environment Air Quality Evaluation in a High Elevation Metropolitan Area in the Andes
RUBEN MAMANI-PACO, Mihai Chiruta, Atmospheric Physics, Univ. Mayor de San Andrés La Paz Bolvia
Abstract Number: 275
Working Group: Infectious Aerosols in the Age of COVID-19
Abstract
The emergence of Coronavirus disease 2019 disease (COVID-19) with its airborne transmission nature of the virus responsible for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus put into sharp focus the indoor air quality and the necessity to monitoring it.
In the past year indoor workspace environments had become unusable due the poor air quality. Many organizations using office spaces took different measures trying to limit the spread of COVID-19.
A simple way to increase air quality in closed environments is through natural ventilation. This would also reduce the probability of contagion by COVID-19 in such environments. It requires the monitoring of key parameters to ensure proper ventilation is achieved. In this work we plan to monitor the air quality of different indoor workspaces using the newly developed “My Air” integrated environmental monitoring system. The parameters that we will monitor are: barometric pressure, temperature, relative humidity, CO2 concentration, total volatile organic compounds concentration, and particulate matter concentration in four channels PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10. Additionally, we want to evaluate the effect of living at high elevation (low atmospheric pressure) on the performance of the system.
Subject headings: COVID-19 – closed environments – indoor air quality