ESTIMATION OF THERMAL POWER PLANT WORKERS EXPOSURE TO MAGNETIC FIELDS AND SIMULATION OF HAZARD ZONES-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

ESTIMATION OF THERMAL POWER PLANT WORKERS EXPOSURE TO MAGNETIC FIELDS AND SIMULATION OF HAZARD ZONES

Published:2020-07 Issue:3 Volume:190 Page:289-296
ISSN:0144-8420
Container-title:Radiation Protection Dosimetry
language:en
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Author:

Bagheri Hosseinabadi Majid¹^ORCID,Khanjani Narges²,Ebrahimi Mohammad Hossein³,Biganeh Jamal¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Public Health, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran

2. Environmental Health Engineering Research Centre, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

3. Environmental and Occupational Health Research Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran

Abstract

AbstractExtremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MFs) have raised some concerns due to their possible effects on workers’ health. In this study ELF-MFs were measured in different units of the thermal power plant based on gridding the indoor space. The exposure level was measured by spot measurement based on the IEEE Std C95.3.1 and then simulated in units with the highest magnetic field intensity by using ArcGIS software. The operators and balance of plant (BOP) technicians (12.64 ± 9.74 μT) and office workers (2.41 ± 1.22 μT) had the highest and lowest levels of both measured and estimated ELF-MFs exposure. The highest measured ELF-MFs were in the vicinity of the power transmission lines in the transformers’ building (48.2 μT). Our simulation showed the high and low exposure areas and ranked exposure well; but, the actual measurements of ELF-MFs exposure were in all cases higher than the estimated values, which means we still need to improve our estimations.

Funder

Shahroud University of Medical Sciences

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,General Medicine,Radiation,Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

Link

http://academic.oup.com/rpd/article-pdf/190/3/289/33937263/ncaa101.pdf

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