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Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review
INTRODUCTION: The advent of COVID-19 has impinged millions of people. The increased concern of the virus spread in confined spaces due to meteorological factors has sequentially fostered the need to improve indoor air quality. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to review control measures and preventive sust...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8049211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33889481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102942 |
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author | Agarwal, Nehul Meena, Chandan Swaroop Raj, Binju P Saini, Lohit Kumar, Ashok Gopalakrishnan, N. Kumar, Anuj Balam, Nagesh Babu Alam, Tabish Kapoor, Nishant Raj Aggarwal, Vivek |
author_facet | Agarwal, Nehul Meena, Chandan Swaroop Raj, Binju P Saini, Lohit Kumar, Ashok Gopalakrishnan, N. Kumar, Anuj Balam, Nagesh Babu Alam, Tabish Kapoor, Nishant Raj Aggarwal, Vivek |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The advent of COVID-19 has impinged millions of people. The increased concern of the virus spread in confined spaces due to meteorological factors has sequentially fostered the need to improve indoor air quality. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to review control measures and preventive sustainable solutions for the future that can deliberately help in bringing down the impact of declined air quality and prevent future biological attacks from affecting the occupant’s health. METHODOLOGY: Anontology chart is constructed based on the set objectives and review of all the possible measures to improve the indoor air quality taking into account the affecting parameters has been done. OBSERVATIONS: An integrated approach considering non-pharmaceutical and engineering control measures together for a healthy indoor environment should be contemplated rather than discretizing the available solutions. Maintaining social distance by reducing occupant density and implementing a modified ventilation system with advance filters for decontamination of viral load can help in sustaining healthy indoor air quality. CONCLUSION: The review paper in the main, provides a brief overview of all the improvement techniques bearing in mind thermal comfort and safety of occupants and looks for a common ground for all the technologies based on literature survey and offers recommendation for a sustainable future. |
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spelling | pubmed-80492112021-04-16 Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review Agarwal, Nehul Meena, Chandan Swaroop Raj, Binju P Saini, Lohit Kumar, Ashok Gopalakrishnan, N. Kumar, Anuj Balam, Nagesh Babu Alam, Tabish Kapoor, Nishant Raj Aggarwal, Vivek Sustain Cities Soc Article INTRODUCTION: The advent of COVID-19 has impinged millions of people. The increased concern of the virus spread in confined spaces due to meteorological factors has sequentially fostered the need to improve indoor air quality. OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to review control measures and preventive sustainable solutions for the future that can deliberately help in bringing down the impact of declined air quality and prevent future biological attacks from affecting the occupant’s health. METHODOLOGY: Anontology chart is constructed based on the set objectives and review of all the possible measures to improve the indoor air quality taking into account the affecting parameters has been done. OBSERVATIONS: An integrated approach considering non-pharmaceutical and engineering control measures together for a healthy indoor environment should be contemplated rather than discretizing the available solutions. Maintaining social distance by reducing occupant density and implementing a modified ventilation system with advance filters for decontamination of viral load can help in sustaining healthy indoor air quality. CONCLUSION: The review paper in the main, provides a brief overview of all the improvement techniques bearing in mind thermal comfort and safety of occupants and looks for a common ground for all the technologies based on literature survey and offers recommendation for a sustainable future. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-07 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8049211/ /pubmed/33889481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102942 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Agarwal, Nehul Meena, Chandan Swaroop Raj, Binju P Saini, Lohit Kumar, Ashok Gopalakrishnan, N. Kumar, Anuj Balam, Nagesh Babu Alam, Tabish Kapoor, Nishant Raj Aggarwal, Vivek Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review |
title | Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review |
title_full | Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review |
title_fullStr | Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review |
title_short | Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review |
title_sort | indoor air quality improvement in covid-19 pandemic: review |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8049211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33889481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102942 |
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