Personal Exposure and Indoor Home Particulate Matter: A Review

This review deals with field studies of particles indoors and exposure to particulate concentrations on recent surveys of homes. The results of indoor and personal exposure concentrations are presented. Inaddition the effect of other related air pollution factors which might have an effect on exposure to particles arediscussed. This paper surveys of particle concentrations and sources in homes from 1981 to 2011. Three major studies which in the USA and a large scale study in Europe that carried out to measure personal exposure and indoor home particle concentrations. A number of small personal exposure studies in homes are also brieflysummarized. Personal exposure studies in the USA, EXPOLIS cities and Toronto and others similar studies havedocumented that the personal exposure to PM concentrations was higher than those measured indoors. Most 2.5of these studies found a suitable relationship between residential indoor and personal exposure to particulate matter. Personal exposure to respirable particulate matter highly correlated with indoor air. Ambient concentrations obtained from Fixed Site Monitors poorly correlated with total personal exposure to particulatematter concentrations. Some indoor particle source such as smoking, cooking and resuspension of indoor dust may increase subjected to personal exposure and indoor particulate concentrations

Keywords:

Air pollution , Personal exposure , Particulate matter , Indoor sources , Respirable particles