Significance of Carbon Monoxide Monitoring in Air Quality Monitoring

Carbon monoxide poisoning is a toxic gas that kills a large number of people. Mild poisoning presents severe headache, dizziness, heartbeat, dazzle, limb weakness, vomiting, irritability, unsteady gait. Heavy poisoning, know the obstruction of severe, was deep fainting or plant condition or even death, so carbon monoxide detector in the production environment has an important effect. So what is the primary use of carbon monoxide gas detector?

Nowadays, the use of carbon monoxide gas detector planning is more and more extensive. Including in the petrochemical industry, water treatment operations, tobacco operations, pharmaceutical operations and food operations are widely used.

Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the air pollutant 6 parameters specified in the ambient air quality monitoring standards. The analytical methods are specified as gas filter correlation infrared absorption (GFCIRA) and non-dispersive infrared absorption (NDIRA). One of the reasons why CO needs to be monitored in the atmosphere is because of the associated risks.

1) Toxicity Characteristics For the human body, inhalation of carbon monoxide in excess is relatively hazardous. This is due to the characteristics of carbon monoxide: on the one hand, carbon monoxide can combine with haemoglobin in the human body before oxygen, and this speed is more than 200 times that of oxygen. Staying in such an environment for a certain period of time can lead to various symptoms in the brain, heart and other parts of the body. On the other hand, carbon monoxide combines with the body's iron-containing respiratory enzymes to inhibit intracellular respiration, causing hypoxia.

2) Acute Poisoning Since carbon monoxide is a colourless, tasteless and odourless gas, it is very difficult for people to detect when a regional leak occurs. In the absence of detection equipment, people can only through the emergence of headache, dizziness, nausea and other symptoms to roughly determine whether in the heavy air pollution environment. However, at that moment, people have already been stranded under excessive carbon monoxide for some time, which has already had an impact on their health.

3) Flammable and Explosive At the same time, carbon monoxide also has the characteristics of flammable and explosive, and can be mixed with air to form explosive mixtures, so when there is a large area of sudden leakage of the incident there is a very high risk. Therefore, enterprises with carbon monoxide risk operations will be equipped with carbon monoxide detectors or install carbon monoxide monitoring systems for early warning and forecasting of emergencies.

4) Chronic Poisoning In ambient air, on the other hand, the concentration of carbon monoxide emitted is generally reduced rapidly due to continuous dilution by the atmosphere. This does not mean, however, that low concentrations of carbon monoxide are non-toxic and harmless. The relative risk that carbon monoxide may pose makes comprehensive monitoring of it of great significance. The construction of a long-term, gridded regional monitoring system can help in the management of carbon monoxide emissions and facilitate the identification and control of pollution sources. The aim is to protect people's health and safety and to continuously improve the quality of our atmosphere.