The increasing importance of indoor air quality management on public transport led the Korean government to amend the indoor air quality control in public use facilities, etc. Act including modes of public transport under the Act from June 2013. Particulate matter (PM) in subway systems is reported as being mostly generated by friction—between the wheels and the rails, between the wheels and the brake pads, and between the catenaries and the pantographs. In order to reduce PM level in subway cabins, a newly developed subway cabin air purifier (SCAP) was installed on the ceilings of the cabins. In this study, we analyzed indoor PM concentrations through continuous measurement of PMs less than 10 µm in diameter (PM10) and PMs less than 2.5 µm in diameter (PM2.5) in the cabins of line 2 and line 5 of the Seoul metropolitan subway network, comparing the concentrations in cabins where SCAP devices were installed to cabins without them in order to verify SCAP effectiveness. In both cabins with and without SCAP, the ratio of indoor to outdoor PM10 (I/O for PM10) showed a two-times higher value in line 5 than in line 2, which indicated that the entirely underground line 5 was less ventilated with outdoor air. In addition, the ratio of indoor PM2.5/PM10 showed that coarse mode PM was more abundant in line 5 due to poor ventilation in the tunnel sections compared to that of line 2. Regarding the effectiveness of SCAP, it was found that changes of PM10 concentrations in line 2 and line 5 were from 132.8 to 112.2 µg/m3 (15.5 % efficiency) and from 154.4 to 114.2 µg/m3 (26.0 % efficiency) after SCAP installation, respectively.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Status of PM in Seoul metropolitan subway cabins and effectiveness of subway cabin air purifier (SCAP)


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2014


    Size :

    8 Seiten




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




    Air purifier for subway carriage

    GAO CAIPENG / WAN YIDONG / XU CHUNJIE | European Patent Office | 2024

    Free access



    Alphonse XIII metropolitan subway of Madrid

    Mueller, R.W. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1928


    A comparative study of aggregate and disaggregate gravity models using Seoul metropolitan subway trip data

    Kim, Chansung / Choi, Chang Gyu / Cho, Seongkil et al. | Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2009