A Campaign for the Evolution of Personal Exposure to VOC
A group of young students submitted themselves to a measure campaign to evaluate the personal exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) during their normal daily life.
Personal diffusive samplers have been used to absorb 28 among the principal VOC.
This study has been carried out for few months in some small towns all around a very large industrial area, located in Sicily, a region south of Italy, where an air quality measure stations network has been active for more than thirty years.
An interesting preliminary result comes from the comparison of data collected with diffusive personal samplers with those recorded by the fixed stations showing that the former are four to five times higher than the last and that the personal habits and the way of life play a great role on the personal exposure to VOC.