TY - JOUR
T1 - Ammonia Detection by Electronic Noses for a Safer Work Environment
AU - Reis, Tiago
AU - Moura, Pedro Catalão
AU - Gonçalves, Débora
AU - Ribeiro, Paulo A.
AU - Vassilenko, Valentina
AU - Fino, Maria Helena
AU - Raposo, Maria
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/OE/PD%2FBDE%2F150627%2F2020/PT#
Funding Information:
This research was funded by Bilateral Project Deteção de Estrogénio um Contaminante Emergente em Corpos Hídricos—Cooperação Transnacional_FCT (Portugal)- CAPES (Brazil), CAPES (Finance code 001) (88887.837887/2023-00), CNPq (402816/2020-0), FAPESP (2018/22214-6).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by the authors.
PY - 2024/5/15
Y1 - 2024/5/15
N2 - Providing employees with proper work conditions should be one of the main concerns of any employer. Even so, in many cases, work shifts chronically expose the workers to a wide range of potentially harmful compounds, such as ammonia. Ammonia has been present in the composition of products commonly used in a wide range of industries, namely production in lines, and also laboratories, schools, hospitals, and others. Chronic exposure to ammonia can yield several diseases, such as irritation and pruritus, as well as inflammation of ocular, cutaneous, and respiratory tissues. In more extreme cases, exposure to ammonia is also related to dyspnea, progressive cyanosis, and pulmonary edema. As such, the use of ammonia needs to be properly regulated and monitored to ensure safer work environments. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work have already commissioned regulations on the acceptable limits of exposure to ammonia. Nevertheless, the monitoring of ammonia gas is still not normalized because appropriate sensors can be difficult to find as commercially available products. To help promote promising methods of developing ammonia sensors, this work will compile and compare the results published so far.
AB - Providing employees with proper work conditions should be one of the main concerns of any employer. Even so, in many cases, work shifts chronically expose the workers to a wide range of potentially harmful compounds, such as ammonia. Ammonia has been present in the composition of products commonly used in a wide range of industries, namely production in lines, and also laboratories, schools, hospitals, and others. Chronic exposure to ammonia can yield several diseases, such as irritation and pruritus, as well as inflammation of ocular, cutaneous, and respiratory tissues. In more extreme cases, exposure to ammonia is also related to dyspnea, progressive cyanosis, and pulmonary edema. As such, the use of ammonia needs to be properly regulated and monitored to ensure safer work environments. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work have already commissioned regulations on the acceptable limits of exposure to ammonia. Nevertheless, the monitoring of ammonia gas is still not normalized because appropriate sensors can be difficult to find as commercially available products. To help promote promising methods of developing ammonia sensors, this work will compile and compare the results published so far.
KW - ammonia
KW - e-nose
KW - environment
KW - health at work
KW - review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194219807&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/s24103152
DO - 10.3390/s24103152
M3 - Review article
C2 - 38794006
AN - SCOPUS:85194219807
SN - 1424-8220
VL - 24
JO - Sensors
JF - Sensors
IS - 10
M1 - 3152
ER -