Abstract

This paper presents the results of the air quality by the content of CO2, CO, PM2.5, PM10 and the microclimate (temperature and relative humidity) monitoring campaign, in Bucharest underground transport network. The monitoring was performed using both manual and automatic data acquisition systems. All the acquired data were stored in a specific database system used for fast reporting and alarming. GIS software was used to precisely locate the exterior air intakes for selected stations in order to know the quality of the exterior air circulated through them and for finding the best position for new ones. The research was conducted on different station platforms, belonging to the same line, in the Bucharest subway system throughout a year (2015) in order to improve air quality and comfort level of subway stations. The obtained results will serve as basis for improving the air quality and comfort level in the new long subway lines designed and built now in Bucharest.

Highlights

  • (2015) in order to improve air quality and comfort level of subway stations

  • In Bucharest (Romania) all subway lines and stations are exclusively underground and due to this feature the confined microclimate can accumulate different pollutants entering from the outside through ventilation systems in addition to those generated within the system by the frequency and speed of trains due to abrasion and wear of wheels, braking pads and rail tracks, caused during the motion of the trains, and subway stations and tunnels architecture

  • This paper aims to conduct a study on indoor air quality in Bucharest underground transport network

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Introduction

(2015) in order to improve air quality and comfort level of subway stations. The obtained results will serve as basis for improving the air quality and comfort level in the new long subway lines designed and built in Bucharest. In Bucharest (Romania) all subway lines and stations are exclusively underground and due to this feature the confined microclimate can accumulate different pollutants entering from the outside through ventilation systems in addition to those generated within the system by the frequency and speed of trains due to abrasion and wear of wheels, braking pads and rail tracks, caused during the motion of the trains, and subway stations and tunnels architecture. Due to the particularities of Bucharest subway architecture, the heat and the substance flows may change several times within a year, cyclic regimes being controlled by reversing the ventilation on the winter-summer schedule. It is important to underline that subway stations make a heat transfer with the outside and vice versa

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