The Study On the Distribution of Indoor Concentration of Microorganism in Commercial Building

다중이용시설의 실내공기 미생물 오염실태에 관한 연구

  • Park Kyung-Su (Dept. of Building Equipment & System Eng., Graduate School of Kyungwon University) ;
  • Choi Sang-Gon (Dept. of Building Equipment & System Eng., Graduate School of Kyungwon University) ;
  • Hong Jin-Kwan (Dept. of Building Equipment & System Eng., Kyungwon University)
  • Published : 2006.08.01

Abstract

Recently, indoor air quality (IAQ) is one of the greatest problems in our modern societies. Although research for IAQ is made rapid progress but IAQ problems concerning in door microorganism contamination is required to be studied still more. So we have investigated the indoor microorganism concentration of a variety of department store, subway station, underground shopping center, kindergartens, library where people complain about the in-door air quality. The experiment on microorganism concentration of indoor air was carried out and the average of total microorganisms was measured. Comparing the experimental results with existing foreign criterion, the experimental results show that the ministry of environment recommendation microorganism concentration value ($800 CFU/m^3$) is in need of revision in the near future.

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