Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
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Questions
1. What are the major contaminants produced as a result of combustion?
2. What health concerns are associated with flue gas spillage?
3. What is the major exposure concern associated with the use of wood-burning
appliances?
4. How do exposures from biomass cooking compare with exposures from un-
vented combustion appliances?
5. What contamination/exposure concerns are associated with regular candle
burning?
6. How may one be exposed to significant SO
2
levels associated with indoor
combustion systems?
7. Describe major health concerns associated with exposures to environmental
tobacco smoke.
8. Identify sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposures indoors.
What health risks may be associated with exposures to PAHs?
9. Describe emission characteristics of kerosene heaters and potential health
risks associated with emission exposures.
10. Describe the nature of health concerns associated with the use of gas cooking
stoves.
11. Exposure to tobacco smoke reportedly causes mucous membrane irritation.
What are the likely contaminants responsible?
12. Describe exposure concerns associated with floor burnishers, forklifts, and
ice-resurfacing machines.
13. What contaminant exposures are unique to environmental tobacco smoke?
14. What health risks may be associated with exposures to nitrogen oxides?
15. Significant levels of combustion-generated contaminants are measured in a
building despite the fact that no apparent combustion source is present.
Explain how this could be the case.
16. Describe how re-entry/entrainment phenomena affect combustion-related in-
door air quality.
17. Carbon monoxide exposures are a concern with vented combustion appli-
ances and are generally not a concern with unvented appliances. Explain why.
18. How are asthma and ETS exposure related?
19. Who is at greatest risk of harm from exposure to environmental tobacco
smoke? Why?