TY  - GEN
CY  - Beijing
KW  - carbon monoxide
KW  -  personal exposure
KW  -  living room
KW  -  gas appliance
A1  - Croxford, B.
A1  - Hutchinson, E.
A1  - Leonardi, G.
A1  - McKenna, L.
A1  - Riddington, M.
A1  - Volans, G.
A1  - Wilkinson, P.
ID  - discovery2511
N2  - This paper reports results from the monitoring part of a recent UK Department of Health funded project
investigating carbon monoxide (CO) levels in homes during the winter of 2002/2003. In all, 56 homes were
monitored for carbon monoxide in 3 cities across the UK.
The homes were selected as part of the UK government Warm Front evaluation programme (aimed at reducing fuel
poverty) and might be expected to have a higher incidence of problem gas appliances emitting higher than average
amounts of CO than the general population. However the ventilation rate of these homes might also be expected to
be higher.
Measurements of CO were taken at 15-minute intervals in a representative location in the main living area of each
home. Thirteen or 23% of the homes were found to exceed the WHO guideline values for ambient CO
concentrations.
In each home that exceeded the guidelines an assessment of source concentration of each appliance was made by
an expert gas engineer, it was found that old, poor quality gas appliances caused a large proportion of exceedances
seen.
SN  - 7894948306
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2511/
PB  - Tsinghua University Press
TI  - Real time carbon monoxide measurements from 56 UK homes
EP  - 2380
SP  - 2376
AV  - public
Y1  - 2005///
ER  -