TAILIEUCHUNG - Air pollution from fireworks during festival of lights (Deepawali) in Howrah, India - a case study

We use a series of computational models to estimate health damages attributable to air pollution from these plants, we compare these damages to estimates of damanges from non- maquiladora industrial polluters, and we use regression analysis to determine whether the poor suffer disproportionately from maquiladora air pollution. Two important caveats are in order. The two maquiladora plants for which we estimate health damages were selected for idiosyncratic reasons, and therefore may not be particularly representative. Also, our plant-level maquiladora emissions data are estimated, not measured. Hence, care must be exercised in interpreting our results | Atmósfera 23 4 347-365 2010 Air pollution from fireworks during festival of lights Deepawali in Howrah India - a case study B. THAKUR Department of Civil Engineering Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology East Kolkata Township Kolkata-700107 West Bengal India Corresponding author b2981975@ S. CHAKRABORTY Department of Sanitary Engineering All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health Kolkata-700073 West Bengal India Public Health Engineering Directorate Government of West Bengal 1 Kiran Shankar Roy Road New Secretariat Building Kolkata-700001 A. DEBSARKAR S. CHAKRABARTY Department of Civil Engineering Jadavpur University Kolkata-700107 West Bengal India R. C. SRIVASTAVA Department of Sanitary Engineering All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health Kolkata-700073 West Bengal India Received September 22 2009 accepted July 30 2010 RESUMEN La actividad de pirotecnia durante las celebraciones festivas locales pueden causar una contamination del aire intensa y a corto plazo. Deepawali fiesta de la luz es una fiesta anual que se celebra en la India durante los meses de octubre o noviembre con gran actividad en la atmósfera de fuegos artificiales. La concentra-ción de contaminantes atmosfericos tales como SPM partículas en suspensión PM10 SO2 y NO2 fue monitoreada durante seis días consecutivos en Salkia una zona densamente poblada y residencial cerca de Calcuta en la India con el fin de evaluar el impacto que los fuegos artificiales presentan sobre la calidad del aire. Las concentraciones de contaminantes registradas fueron varias veces superiores a lo habitual con referencia a un típico día de invierno veces superior para SPM veces para PM10 veces para veces para SO2 y veces para NO2 . Los resultados han mostrado la gran aportación que los fuegos artificiales generan en los niveles de concentración de los diferentes contaminantes atmosféricos. Las concentraciones de partículas superaron ampliamente sus respectivos .

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