Environmental Science Project Summary Topic Chosen: Describe the activity that you carried out (1-2 paragraphs) (5 pts): Workload Report (2 pts): (work should represent at least two hours of...

Topic chosen: “Indoor Air Pollution”
Describe the activity that you carried out:
In order to proceed with analysis of Indoor Air pollution have chosen my home in addition to neighbours’ home for data collection of pollutants on average with help of literatures. The pollutants vary in concentrations from one home to other if a person is food lover, he/she cooks more food which results in pollution from flame & ingredient (VOC) used for cooking which varies from pollutants from smokers’ room. Hence spent time in surveying home with permission for collection of data and feedback for Indoor Air Pollution task.
Work Load:
    
    Time to be spent
    Doing what?
    Week 1
    3-4 hours
    Collecting indoor pollution point source and literature survey
    Week 2
    2-3 hours
    Reading/data collection and cross validation with journals
    Week 3
    4-5 hours
    Compilation of complete project in prescribed format
Data Collected:
The data collected from different point of source are tabulated as below,
    House
    Tobacco smoke HCHO (ppm)
    VOC (ppm)
    CO (ppm)
    NO2(ppm)
    1
    0.19
    0.3
    65
    0.08
    2
    0.007
    0.08
    18
    0.001
    3
    0.005
    0.14
    27
    0.02
    4
    0
    0.32
    0.8
    0.0001
    5
    0.011
    0.006
    48
    0.03
    6
    0.001
    0.06
    4
    0.01
The plot by using collected data as expressed below,
List of Resources that were used:
1. Ballester, Maria, J., & Ferran. (2010, February 3). Sources of Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Preschool Children. Retrieved from https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2009/727516/ (2017, February 22).
2. Indoor Pollutants and Sources. (https://www.epa.gov/indoorair-quality-iaq/indoor-pollutants-and-sources)
3. National Research Council (US) Committee on Indoor Pollutants. (1981, January 1). SOURCES AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INDOOR POLLUTION. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234054/)
What was the environmental significance of this project?
The data collection steps in different house helped to visualize the carbon foot print generated by each individual which varies a lot among each member in the family as each having their individual choice of lifestyle. Even the person choice of food is contributing significant footprint to the environment, among the collected data only house 4 family is...