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ArticleSustainable cities and society2021

Indoor air quality improvement in COVID-19 pandemic: Review.

Nehul Agarwal, Chandan Swaroop Meena, Binju P Raj, Lohit Saini, Ashok Kumar, N Gopalakrishnan, Anuj Kumar, Nagesh Babu Balam, Tabish Alam, Nishant Raj Kapoor and 1 more

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Article in Sustainable cities and society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Nehul AgarwalCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Chandan Swaroop MeenaCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Binju P RajCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Lohit SainiCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Ashok KumarCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
N GopalakrishnanCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Anuj KumarCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Nagesh Babu BalamCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Tabish AlamCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Nishant Raj KapoorCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.
Vivek AggarwalCSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, 247667, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe advent of COVID-19 has impinged millions of people. The increased concern of the virus spread in confined spaces due to meteorological factors has sequentially fostered the need to improve indoor air quality.

objectiveThis paper aims to review control measures and preventive sustainable solutions for the future that can deliberately help in bringing down the impact of declined air quality and prevent future biological attacks from affecting the occupant's health. METHODOLOGY: Anontology chart is constructed based on the set objectives and review of all the possible measures to improve the indoor air quality taking into account the affecting parameters has been done. OBSERVATIONS: An integrated approach considering non-pharmaceutical and engineering control measures together for a healthy indoor environment should be contemplated rather than discretizing the available solutions. Maintaining social distance by reducing occupant density and implementing a modified ventilation system with advance filters for decontamination of viral load can help in sustaining healthy indoor air quality.

conclusionThe review paper in the main, provides a brief overview of all the improvement techniques bearing in mind thermal comfort and safety of occupants and looks for a common ground for all the technologies based on literature survey and offers recommendation for a sustainable future.

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Air purifiersFacemasksHVACIndoor air qualityLockdownSocial distancingVentilation

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PMID33889481
PMCPMC8049211

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