Mobile air quality monitors to be installed across Maharashtra

By OEM Update Editorial September 3, 2021 7:22 pm IST

AQ Monitors will be fitted with instruments to measure meteorological parameters such as wind direction, wind speed, ambient temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and solar radiation.

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board plans to install 15 mobile continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations (CAAQMS) at locations across the state, including Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune and others. Other locations shortlisted for installation of mobile CAAQMS include Chandrapur, Amravati, Kolhapur, Nashik, Aurangabad and Nagpur. Air quality monitors will be housed in Bharat Stage-IV compliant trucks which will be stationed outside various regional offices of MPCB in at least eight districts. They will be fitted with continuous automatic monitoring devices for carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx), beta attenuation gauges to measure PM2.5 and PM10 pollution levels, and a BTX analyser to measure atmospheric concentrations of other pollutants including benzene, toluene ethyl benzene, and its 3 isomers.

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