Title
Implementation of an Air Pollution Measurement System in Mining Areas of Cerro de Pasco-Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
IJETAE Publication House
Abstract
One of the big problems in the city of Cerro de Pasco is the air pollution caused by the mining activity that occurs in this area, this activity generates a total of 3737 metric tons per year of particulate matter, which are thrown into the environment in an alarming way, thus reaching that this particulate matter can lodge inside the organism of the inhabitants permanently, causing in them diseases in the respiratory system, thus affecting the most vulnerable population, producing in them infections in the respiratory tract that can even carry those to death. Nowadays the teams that carry out the monitoring of air quality are restricted only to the academic and governmental sphere, so much so that the population does not know the degree of air pollution. For this reason, it is proposed to carry out a system to measure the level of air pollution taking as main data, the measurement of particulate matter and the emission of carbon monoxide, the data that can be recovered from these measurements to be able to compare them with the parameters dictated by the Ministry of the Environment. As a result, an autonomous system was obtained, with which the level of particulate matter, possible toxic gases, and the measurement of the level of carbon monoxide can be measured, all these pollutants that could be in the environment, all these measurements are constant, thus leading the population to become aware of the level of quality of the environment where they live.
Start page
99
End page
110
Volume
12
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería mecánica Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85124094141
Source
International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering
ISSN of the container
22502459
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