Sunday, March 27, 2016

The air quality index

The air quality index

The air quality index (AQI) of a area means that how polluted or clean the air in a particular range is. It is measured to keep the negative health impacts when people come into the area with uncleaned air. The purposes of this blog are to introduce the air quality index (AQI) and compares the AQI in Cincinnati area and Cleveland area in Ohio, and show how air pollution might be controlled.

The air quality index is used to provide the public with an indication of the air quality in a local area on a daily basis. If focuses on health effects you may experience within a few hours or days after breathing polluted air.


We can find the data we need in the home page of the Ohioenvironment protection agency.

According to the application under the Ohio environmentprotection agency, both area in Cincinnati district and Cleveland have good air quality. Moreover, this does not imply that individuals in the district ought not take measures to control air pollution. With the guide of the government and the exertion of people's concerns, air pollution might be in a good control.





There are few suggestions for the control of the air pollution, Puja Mondal believed that there are 5 ways to protect the air environment health. Some of the effective methods to Control Air Pollution are as follows:
(a) Source Correction Methods: Industries make a major contribution towards causing air pollution. Formation of pollutants can be prevented and their emission can be minimised at the source itself.
(b) Pollution Control equipment: it becomes necessary to install pollution control equip­ment to remove the gaseous pollutants from the main gas stream.
(c) Diffusion of pollutant in air: Dilution of the contaminants in the atmosphere is another approach to the con­trol of air pollution.
(d) Vegetation: Plants contribute towards controlling air-pollution by utilizing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen in the process of photosynthesis.

(e) Zoning: Zoning advocates setting aside of separate areas for industries so that they are far removed from the residential areas.


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