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KMID : 1024519940030030253
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Journal of the Environmental Sciences
1994 Volume.3 No. 3 p.253 ~ p.261
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CHLOROFORM IN THE AIR OF INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS AND THE OUTDOOR AIR NEAR THE SWIMMING POOLS IN A CITY OF KOREA
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Jo Wan-Kuen
Hwang Young-Mee
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Abstract
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Chloroform present in the swimming water disinfected with sodium hypochlorite is released to the air of swimming pools. The air chloroform concentrations were measured in two swimming pools A and B which applied both sodium hypochlorite a:d ozone. Thew mean concentrations are 28.0 /m3 and 33.6 /m3in the swimming pools A and B, respectively. On the other hand, the mean water chloroform concentrations in the swimming pools A and B were 23.9 /l and 19.5 /l, respectively. The air chloroform concentrations were lower in the swimming Bools A and B than those reported by previous studies abroad employed the swimming pools which applied sodium hypochlorite only for water disinfection. The water chloroform concentrations were also lower in this study than in the previous studies. The relationship between the air and water chloroform concentrations measured in this study was significant with p=0.002 and Rz=0.42. At similar time to the indoor air sampling, outdoor air samples were collected at two sites near each of the swimming Pools A and B. The mean outdoor air chloroform concentrations near the swiminE Pools A and B were 0.41 /m3 and 0.16 /m3, respectively. The outdoor air chloroform concentrations measured in this study were equal to or lower than those reported by previous studies abroad. ’rho chloroform dose inhaled for a typical one-hour swim was estimated to be 25.9 per person, corresponding to a specific 0.37 /kg body weight for a reference 70 Kg male adult, while the inhalation dose of chloroform from the outdoor air was estimated to be 5.6 per person per day, corresponding to a specific 0.08 /Kg/day for the same reference male adult. Key word : Chloroform, swimming, sodium hypochlorite, inhalation, dose
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KEYWORD
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Chloroform, swimming, sodium hypochlorite, inhalation, dose
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