Ambient Air Quality Standards (National)

Pollutants Timeweighted average Concentration in ambient air Method of measurement

Sensitive of Area Sulphur Annual Average* 24 hours** 15 g/m3 30 g/m3 15 g/m3 30 g/m3 70 g/m3 100 g/m3 50 g/m3 75 g/m3

Industrial Area 80 g/m3 120 g/m3 80 g/m3 120 g/m3 360 g/m3 500 g/m3 120 g/m3 150 g/m3

Dioxide (SO2) Oxide of Annual* Nitrogen as NO2 24 hours** Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) Respirable Particulate matter (RPM), (size less than 10 m) Lead (Pb) Annual 24 hours**

Annual 24 hours**

Residential, Rural & Other areas 60 g/m3 Improved West and Greek Method 3 80 g/m Ultraviolet Fluorescence 60 g/m3 Jacob & Ochheiser modified (NaArsenite) Method 80 g/m3 Gas Phase Chemilumloescence 3 140 g/m High volume 200 g/m3 sampling. (Average flow rate not less than 1.1m3/minute) 60 g/m3 Respirable 3 100 g/m particulate matter sampler

Annual 24 hours**

0.50 g/m3 0.75 g/m3

1.0 g/m3 1.5 g/m3

0.75 g/m3 1.00 g/m3

Carbon Monoxide (CO)

8 hours** 1 hour

1.0 g/m3 2.0 g/m3

5.0 g/m3 10.0 g/m3

2.0 g/m3 4.0 g/m3

ASS Method after sampling using EPM 2000 or equivalent Filter paper Non dispersive infra red Spectroscopy

Annual Arithmetic mean of minimum 104 measurements in a year taken twice a

week 24 hourly at uniform interval.

**

24 hourly/8 hourly values should be met 98 % of the time in a year. However, 2 %

of the time, it may exceed but not on two consecutive days.