AMBIENT AIR QUALITY IN AND AROUND CHANDRAPUR CITY

Abstract

Rapid growth in industries and due to the urbanization are responsible for recent environmental situation in various cities in India as well in Asian countries and also has seen a fast growth in their population along with signicantly increased levels of air pollution in urban centers. Chandrapur, a town in Maharashtra, due to its coal mining activities, cement industries, and thermal power station has almost doubled its population in last decade. This paper is a comparative study between the ambient air qualities of Chandrapur district during January 2015 to December 2017 at six different stations. The analysis for NOx, SO2 and RSPM has been done as per the standard methods of CPCB and MPCB. It has been observed that SO2 level particularly in MIDC Chandrapur area samples were signicantly higher than that of other stations. Ballarpur is located about 10 to 12 Kms away from Chandrapur and it has been observed that NOx level in air samples of Ballarpur was higher than normal. In general it was observed that RSPM level in almost all samples were higher. It may be concluded that the pollution level of SO2, NOx and RSPM mass concentration was signicantly increased in the area under industrial impact.