Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine

Volume 2, Issue 3 (August 2014)

ISSN Print: 2333-3561   ISSN Online: 2333-357X

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Indoor Pollution in Work Office: VOCs, Formaldehyde and Ozone by Printer

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DOI: 10.4236/odem.2014.23006    6,876 Downloads   10,507 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

In recent years proof of “indoor air quality”, designed to protect and improve the health and safety of workers, was a central strategy in the prevention of many companies. The man creates with the environment in which he lives and works a continuous gas exchange through breathing; this makes the respiratory system main entrance of air pollutants. The indoor pollutants are numerous and originate from different sources. Their concentration may vary over time and depends on the nature of the source, on ventilation, habits and activities carried out by the occupants in the areas concerned. It is well known that photocopiers and laser printers are equipment that emit several chemicals (ozone, solvents, toner dust) both to release the materials used for their operation (toner, ink, paper) and then to the special printing technology used. During the printing and photocopying processes occurring chemical and physical processes complex, during which the components of toner and paper will react under the influence of light and high temperatures. More recently, there have been a growing number of articles as a result of indoor air pollution. They have become more and more significant; probably because of increasing of the concentrations of harmful substances in the confined environment. Particular attention has been given to the emission of harmful substances from electronic equipment and printing that are increasingly present in living and working place. This work was the main objective the emission of volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde and ozone from laser printing devices and consequently the estimation of elimination of same substances through a paper filters which operate through a mechanism of filtration surface with interstitial and penetration of particles into matrix filter on agglomeration, they also enclose type sandwich a layer of activated carbon.

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Barrese, E. , Gioffrè, A. , Scarpelli, M. , Turbante, D. , Trovato, R. and Iavicoli, S. (2014) Indoor Pollution in Work Office: VOCs, Formaldehyde and Ozone by Printer. Occupational Diseases and Environmental Medicine, 2, 49-55. doi: 10.4236/odem.2014.23006.

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