Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions

Haze episode has always becomes the one of the common reasons for emergency closing of school. Unique approach had been used to collect and examine the toxic metal of the respirable and inhalable dust by combining the latest personal cyclone and seven-hole head sampler together with the latest spect...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Din, Shamzani Affendy, Nik Yahya, Nik Nurul Hidayah, Othman, Rashidi
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Language:	English English
Published:	Malaysian Institute Of Planners 2018
Subjects:	NA Architecture NA6600 Education buildings
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spelling	iium-664092019-01-04T08:03:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/66409/ Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions Mohd Din, Shamzani Affendy Nik Yahya, Nik Nurul Hidayah Othman, Rashidi NA Architecture NA6600 Education buildings Haze episode has always becomes the one of the common reasons for emergency closing of school. Unique approach had been used to collect and examine the toxic metal of the respirable and inhalable dust by combining the latest personal cyclone and seven-hole head sampler together with the latest spectrometer of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in a single framework. Iron is found significantly different with the highest concentration at 107.895 ng m-3. The mean ranges of metal in respirable dust found in educational institutions are between 0.005 and 78.629 ng m-3. The findings of this research seen the amount of respirable dust exceeds more than 21.13 per cent than inhalable dust. Analysed metals found are not exceeding the ambient air exposure limit established by Department of Environment Malaysia. Hence, it is understood that the outdoor atmospheric environments of Malaysian educational institutions are non-hazardous for both visitors and occupiers (students and personnel). The high level of iron signify that it is safe for the crossing of children to have a traffic light in front of the school, but the idling of motor vehicles emitted more pollutant that risks health of the school children, teachers and officers. These suggest that when there are schools, there shall be constructed of flyover crossing for long term solution or with certain distance to traffic sources. Malaysian Institute Of Planners 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66409/1/66409_Metals%20in%20respirable%20and%20inhalable%20dust.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/66409/7/66409_Metals%20in%20respirable%20and%20inhalable%20dust_SCOPUS.pdf Mohd Din, Shamzani Affendy and Nik Yahya, Nik Nurul Hidayah and Othman, Rashidi (2018) Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions. Planning Malaysia: Journal of the Malaysian Institute of Planners, 16 (2). pp. 21-29. ISSN 1675-6215 E-ISSN 0128-0945 http://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/457/367
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spellingShingle	NA Architecture NA6600 Education buildings Mohd Din, Shamzani Affendy Nik Yahya, Nik Nurul Hidayah Othman, Rashidi Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions
description	Haze episode has always becomes the one of the common reasons for emergency closing of school. Unique approach had been used to collect and examine the toxic metal of the respirable and inhalable dust by combining the latest personal cyclone and seven-hole head sampler together with the latest spectrometer of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in a single framework. Iron is found significantly different with the highest concentration at 107.895 ng m-3. The mean ranges of metal in respirable dust found in educational institutions are between 0.005 and 78.629 ng m-3. The findings of this research seen the amount of respirable dust exceeds more than 21.13 per cent than inhalable dust. Analysed metals found are not exceeding the ambient air exposure limit established by Department of Environment Malaysia. Hence, it is understood that the outdoor atmospheric environments of Malaysian educational institutions are non-hazardous for both visitors and occupiers (students and personnel). The high level of iron signify that it is safe for the crossing of children to have a traffic light in front of the school, but the idling of motor vehicles emitted more pollutant that risks health of the school children, teachers and officers. These suggest that when there are schools, there shall be constructed of flyover crossing for long term solution or with certain distance to traffic sources.
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author	Mohd Din, Shamzani Affendy Nik Yahya, Nik Nurul Hidayah Othman, Rashidi
author_facet	Mohd Din, Shamzani Affendy Nik Yahya, Nik Nurul Hidayah Othman, Rashidi
author_sort	Mohd Din, Shamzani Affendy
title	Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions
title_short	Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions
title_full	Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions
title_fullStr	Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions
title_full_unstemmed	Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions
title_sort	metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions
publisher	Malaysian Institute Of Planners
publishDate	2018
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Metals in respirable and inhalable dust at educational institutions

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