Table 3.
Weekly time-weighted average indoor and outdoor concentrations of air pollutants at reference locations (μg/m3).
Substance | Week No. | Helicopter Platform | Dentistry Building | Kindergarten | |||
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Type | Indoor | Outdoor | Indoor | Outdoor | Indoor | Outdoor | |
Description | Seventh Floor | Under Platform | Front Desk | Court Yard | Office FirstFloor | Terrace First Floor | |
Acrolein | 1 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.24 | <0.001 | 0.17 | - a |
2 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.32 | 0.09 | 0.19 | - a | |
Formaldehyde | 1 | 9.7 | 2.6 | 7.7 | 2.0 | 8.3 | - a |
2 | 9.9 | 2.9 | 10.2 | 2.6 | 8.4 | - a | |
Nitrogen dioxide | 1 + 2 | 11.8 | 15.5 | 15.3 | 17.4 | 8.63 | 15.6 |
TVOC | 1 | 159 | 12.8 | 311 | 1.6 | 312 | <0.1 |
2 | 166 | 11.2 | 281 | <0.1 | 21.5 | <0.1 | |
PM-4.0 | 1 | 6.4 | 3.7 | 8.4 | 13.3 | 6.4 | 5.9 |
2 | 5.4 | 28.3 | 12.4 | 25.3 | 14.2 | 5.6 | |
PM-2.5 | 1 | - | - | 4.6 | 11.1 | - | - |
2 | - | - | 9.8 | 25.7 | - | - | |
Benz(a)pyrene b | 1 | 2.3 × 10−5 | 2.5 × 10−5 | 7.3 × 10−5 | 7.7 × 10−5 | 3.0 × 10−5 | 1.9 × 10−5 |
2 | 5.5 × 10−5 | 1.5 × 10−4 | 1.1 × 10−4 | 1.4 × 10−4 | 1.2 × 10−4 | 2.7 × 10−5 |
a No result due to technical difficulties (DNPH impregnated adsorbent material was wetted due to heavy rainfall); b B(a)P was analyzed from an extract of PM-4.0.