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Indoor air quality in a home improvement store: gaseous pollutants, bioburden and particle-bound chemical constituents

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dc.contributor.authorFurst, Leonardo
dc.contributor.authorCipoli, Yago
dc.contributor.authorYubero, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorGalindo, Nuria
dc.contributor.authorViegas, Carla
dc.contributor.authorDias, Marta
dc.contributor.authorNunes, T.
dc.contributor.authorIgrejas, Getúlio
dc.contributor.authorFeliciano, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorAlves, Célia
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-29T13:43:24Z
dc.date.available2024-08-29T13:43:24Z
dc.date.issued2024-08
dc.descriptionThe authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support by national funds FCT/MCTES to CESAM (UIDP/50017/2020, UIDB/50017/2020 and LAP/0094/2020), to SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2020), to CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020), to CeDRI (UIDB/05757/2020 and UIDP/05757/2020), and also financial support to PhD fellow students Leonardo Furst (SFRH/BD/08461/2020) and Yago Cipoli (SFRH/BD/04992/2021). The authors would like to express their gratitude towards Bianca Gomes, Renata Cervantes, and Pedro Pena from the Health & Technology Research Center (H&TRC - ESTeSL) for their valuable contributions to the microorganism analysis in this work.pt_PT
dc.description.abstractEnsuring good air quality is essential for safeguarding human health, requiring monitoring to comprehend air composition and formulate effective interventions. This study focused on indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring within a home improvement and gardening franchise store in northeastern Portugal. Real-time optical monitors recorded levels of particulate matter below 10 µm (PM10), while PM10 gravimetric sampling was performed to analyse carbonaceous constituents and metal(loid)s. Continuous monitoring also included CO2 and comfort parameters. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), bacteria, and fungi were passively sampled. During labour hours, indoor PM10 concentrations exceeded the national protection threshold, reaching 45.4 ± 15.2 μg/m3, compared to 27.1 ± 9.96 μg/m3 outdoors. The presence of elements from tyre and brake wear and road dust resuspension suggested that outdoor particles were mainly from non-exhaust traffic emissions. Indoors, the abundance of soil-related elements points to the resuspension of mineral dust as an important source of PM10. Also, anthropogenic constituents associated with activities (e.g., wood sawing) and products sold in the store contributed to indoor particle levels. Dominant indoor VOCs were α-pinene, limonene, and hexanal. The most abundant elements in PM10 indoors were Ca, Fe and Zn, with values of 658 ± 297, 273 ± 141, 172 ± 67.4 ng/m3, respectively. Common fungi included Trichoderma sp. and Penicillium sp., while colony-forming bacterial units were most prevalent in the gardening and heating sections. This comprehensive study highlights the need to implement indoor air quality monitoring strategies in commercial spaces, particularly with regard to particulate matter and associated pollutants.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationFurst L, Cipoli Y, Yubero E, Galindo N, Viegas C, Dias M, et al. Indoor air quality in a home improvement store: gaseous pollutants, bioburden and particle-bound chemical constituents. SSRN [preprint server]. 2024 August 9.pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/17641
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewednopt_PT
dc.publisherElsevierpt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://ssrn.com/abstract=4920878pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectAir qualitypt_PT
dc.subjectIndoor airpt_PT
dc.subjectRetail storept_PT
dc.subjectIAQpt_PT
dc.subjectPM10pt_PT
dc.subjectVolatile organic compoundspt_PT
dc.subjectVOCspt_PT
dc.subjectBioburdenpt_PT
dc.titleIndoor air quality in a home improvement store: gaseous pollutants, bioburden and particle-bound chemical constituentspt_PT
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person.familyNameViegas
person.familyNameRosado Silva Dias
person.givenNameCarla
person.givenNameMarta Sofia
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