Development of Air Quality Profile in an Enclosed Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre Car Parks Area

• Main Author: Baharuddin , Khairul Bariyah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2014
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13385/1/khairul%20bariyah.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/13385/

Nowadays, air pollution for indoor area has caught an attention of people around the world. However, few researches have been discussing about the pollution inside car parks area. Statistics show that there are increasing of number of vehicles users, increasing the amount of pollutions. The aim of this which leads to study was to monitor the exhaust emissions released by vehicles, which are carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide and determine how the pollution released from exhaust of vehicles can influences the health of employees inside the car parks area. This problem is analysed within a case study in an enclosed Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) car parks area. For the observed location, the sample of air pollutants are collected in a period of 8 days which are from 1st of November 2013 to 5th of November 2013 and 15th of November 2013 to 17th of November 2013 from 0800 to 1700. The following air pollutants; carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide were measured by using Combustion Gas Analyzer and nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide were measured by using Toxic Gas Test Meter. Data was analysed by using the time series analysis of average 30 minutes for 1 day of data. The concentration of air pollutants than will be compared with the permissible exposure limit (PEL) to determine the effect of air pollutants trapped in car parks area to employees’ health.