Team,
For Monday, please read the following links:
Please download the AQI google map plugin from the right side of the page as well.
Indoor air quality:
For our lab, look at this page:
Look at the categories in the pull down menu. What we'll play around with is your versions of heaven and hell for AQI.
Try this out on your own before class, so you know what to spike.
Next, login to elab2.hpa.edu as elabconsole and papaya77
Look for telemetry
go to data viewer
look for CO2
- Which sensor is broken?
- If you graph all of these (check the boxes then select graph) what trends do you see over the day? (hint: don't select the broken one)
- Change the time to several days, now what do you see? (hint: you may want to try just one sensor, and avoid sensors with spikes)
- Change to several months, same question.
- What do you think the spikes represent? How high are they?
- What is the normal value for CO2 globally? What was this value before industrialization?
Please also read chapter 10 in the Princeton review (see previous post). Below is the section on air quality:
AIR QUALITY LABS
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Air Quality: Air quality can be assessed using various methods.
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Particulates: Sticky paper can be used to collect air particulates from various
sources, and then the paper can be examined under a microscope. It is not possible
to see the smallest particulates, but they do color the white paper.
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Ozone: In this lab, an ecobadge or a homemade potassium iodide gel sampler
is hung or worn in order to collect data on tropospheric ozone. The badge or KI
sample changes color in the presence of ozone and becomes more intensely colored
as the amount of ozone increases.
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Carbon dioxide: In this lab, a commercial sampling device is used to determine the
amount of carbon dioxide in an air sample. Car exhaust, burning tobacco, or other
pollutants can also be sampled.
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