Blue Bar for Ozone Violations in Houston TX during the past 11 years

Houston OZONE Viewer

http://houstoncleanairnetwork.com/ozone-viewer

March through October.
An ozone exceedance day is counted if the measured eight-hour average ozone concentration exceeds the standards. Ozone  / 8- Hour Period / 76 ppb

Ozone  /  143 ppb Hazardous  /  Houston TX  / Ozone Violation

PM 2.5 = 25.1 ug/M3  /  PM 2.5 Violation

Ozone  /  95 ppb Warning  /  Unhealthy Condition

The new annual standard will be 12 micrograms per cubic meter, helping to protect those especially vulnerable to air pollution, including the one in 11 U.S. children with asthma. Soot is one of the deadliest types of air pollution. It can cause heart attacks, asthma attacks, and even premature death. Recent studies have found a possible association with autism as well.

Indoor Air Quality at Work

Houston Freeway Traffic

Over 1.5 Million Cars / Trucks per week travel on the 610 Loop near the Galleria.

Emissions from cars and trucks are responsible for half of all the air pollution in Houston TX

www.drivecleanacrosstexas.org

The air pollution from traffic can become quite concentrated on stretches of road that see bumper-to-bumper traffic.

If your office building is near a freeway, then your fresh air contains air pollution from car and trucks. Ozone & PM2.5 air pollution.

Houston Freeway Traffic

Every week 500,000 to 1.5 Million Cars / Trucks are driving on the 610 Loop, Hwy 59, I-10, I-45, Beltway 8 , Hwy 290. 

http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/tpp/traffic_counts/2010/hou_base.pdf  |  

TX DOT 2010 Report

The only way to know your indoor air quality is to measure it for Particles and VOC Chemicals.

We Measure the Outdoor Air and compare it with the Indoor Air.

Office employees working near a Houston Freeway.

Indoor Air Quality is 40,000 particles / ft3 @ >0.5 micron.

Office workers inhale 1 million Lung Damaging Particles per work day (2,160 per minute) that will stay inside the employee's lungs.

Diesel Soot is made up of microscopic particles (< 1 micron) released from diesel trucks and buses.

W.H.O. Declares Diesel Fumes Cause Lung Cancer.

Dr. Albert Rizzo of the American Lung Association

"Particle pollution at levels currently labeled as officially "EPA SAFE" causes asthma attacks, heart attacks, and strokes.

PM-2.5 Unacceptable Condition Unhealthy Houston TX 8:00 AM

Houston TX "Air Quality Index 183"   PM2.5 is 121 Ug/M3

http://www.tceq.texas.gov/cgi-bin/compliance/monops/texas_pm25.pl

Houston TX  PM2.5 is 121 Ug/M3    Air Quality Index "183"  

https://www.tceq.texas.gov/cgi-bin/compliance/monops/particulates.pl?region_crit=12

Car Emissions May Hike Autism Risk

This study was designed to examine the relationship between traffic-related air pollution using measures of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter and autism.

The investigators found that children with autism were more likely to live at residences that had the highest exposure to traffic-related air pollution, during gestation and during the first year of life.
 

VOC Monitor Graph of Bad Air Quality

VOC Monitor

Applied Sensor

USB Power 5 VDC

450 - 2000 PPM CO2 equivalent

Laser Particle Counter

Measures PM2.5 Diesel Truck Exhaust Fumes in the range

>0.5 microns

>1.0 microns

Dylos Air Quality Monitor DC1700 Measures Diesel Fume Particles (0.5 - 1 micron) in the air from the 200,000 vehicles that pass the clinic everyday.

Lung Damaging Dust - Asthma is the most common childhood disease. This picture shows that the 0.5 micron particles are deposited deep in the Lung's Alveoli.

Our Lungs Filter out 15% of the Lung Damaging Dust Particles from the air in the 0.5 micron size range.

Your Lungs have the same filtering efficiency as a

MERV 11 polypropylene air conditioning air filter.

Once these lung damaging dust particles enter your lungs they are trapped inside causing lung and heart disease.

 

MERV 11 / 13 Polypropylene Air Filter prevents these lung damaging dust particles from entering your lungs.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has made it possible to tap into deep reserves of oil and gas but has also raised concerns about air pollution.

The worries about what drilling does to the air are both global and local, with scientists concerned about the effects on climate change as well as the possible health consequences from breathing smog, soot and other pollutants.

Even if you don't allow smoking in your apartment, your neighbor's cigarettes could affect you, according to a study.

Secondhand smoke can cause disease and premature death in non-smokers; it potentially affects about 44 million Americans who live in multi-unit housing each year, including 27.6 million to 28.9 million with smoke-free apartments or condos, according to the study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Charcoal Air Filter Honeycomb

Positioned after the MERV 8 / 11 Particulate Air Filter

Adsorbent Filtration