Environmental Quality

Environmental quality covers both natural and built environments. It comprises of air, water purity or pollution, noise etc. which adversely impact well-being of living things, their natural environment; natural resources; and the aesthetics.
All of these factors are required to be considered for environmental quality and the pollutional impacts on human beings. All forms of wastes must be properly characterized before mitigation measures are evolved.
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Air quality

Clean air is a fundamental requirement of human health and well-being. However, rising air pollution poses a significant threat across the world. The majority of the urban population is exposed to diseases due to air pollution.

A legislative framework has long been established for the Air quality standards, both ambient air and for the workplace, which need to be maintained for the population’s well-being. For this frequent monitoring of air needs to be done to understand the changing pattern of the pollution load.

Ambient / workzone air
Test Parameters
  • Ammonia
  • Arsenic
  • Benzene
  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Lead
  • Nickel
  • Nitrogen dioxide
  • Oil mist
  • Ozone
  • PM10
  • PM2.5
  • Sulphur dioxide
  • Toluene
  • Xylene
Vent / stack gases
Test Parameters
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Gas / air flowrate
  • Gas / air velocity
  • Nitrogen dioxide
  • Particulate matter
  • Sulphur dioxide
  • Temperature
  • Total particulate matter
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Effluent & wastewater

Effluent Treatment Plant or ETP plays a very important role for treating the wastewaters and making them reusable for a safe discharge in to the environment or recycle it for useful application withing the processes.

Careful sampling and analysis of wastewater is essential to find out the treatment solution or to design a system to purify it for the desired standards. It is also tested periodically to keep a check on treatment plant efficacy and make necessary corrections in the processes.

Pollution Control Board's quality parameters
Test Parameters
  • BOD
  • Chlorides
  • COD
  • pH
  • Sulphates
  • Total dissolved solids
  • Total oil & grease
  • Total suspended solids
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Indoor environmental quality (IEQ)

IEQ refers to the quality of a building’s environment in relation to the health and wellbeing of occupants.
IEQ is determined by factors and contaminants impacting the health conditions of the occupants leading to a sick building syndrome.
Various respiratory symptoms and illnesses can be associated with sick building characteristics, including dampness, cleanliness, and lack of ventilation.
Indoor environments are highly complex and depend on a variety of contaminants such as gases and particulates emanating from office equipment, cleaning products, construction activities, carpets and furnishings, perfumes, cigarette smoke, water-damaged building materials, microbial growth (fungal, mold, and bacterial), insects, outdoor pollutants and many other factors.
Understanding the sources of indoor environmental contaminants and controlling them can often help prevent or resolve building-related worker symptoms.

Test Parameters
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Formaldehyde
  • Humidity
  • Nitrogen dioxide
  • Noise level
  • Ozone
  • PM10
  • PM2.5
  • Sulphur dioxide
  • Temperature
  • Total aerobic microbial count (TAMC)
  • Total combined yeasts and moulds count (TYMC)
  • TVOC
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Micrometeorology

Micrometeorological parameters play an important role for the prediction of pollution dispersion modelling within the surface boundary layer. It also helps form baseline of ambient parameters through various seasons in establishing industrial activity.

Test Parameters
  • Rainfall
  • Relative density
  • Temperature
  • Wind direction
  • Wind speed

Municipal solid waste

Municipal solid waste (MSW) is a diverse mixture of refuse from households, non-hazardous solid waste from industrial, commercial and institutional establishments, market waste, yard waste and road sweepings.
It poses a tremendous health and environmental hazard and needs scientific management and disposal.
Like all the waste management strategies, MSW also first needs to be fully characterized over all the seasons and localities to be able to devise a scientific disposal approach.

Test Parameters
  • Arsenic
  • Bulk density
  • Cadmium
  • Carbon nitrogen ratio
  • Chromium
  • Colour
  • Conductivity
  • Copper
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Moisture content
  • Nickel
  • Odour
  • Particle size analysis
  • Pathogen
  • pH
  • Phosphate
  • Potassium
  • Sum of N, P2O5 and K2O
  • Total nitrogen
  • Total organic carbon
  • Zinc
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Noise – Ambient / workzone

Noise level measurement is the most important part of workplace monitoring. Constant exposure to high noise levels can adversely impact hearing and create many nervous disorders.

Polytest Laboratories helps identify noisy hotspots, measures noise levels and provides easy to understand reports.

Test Parameters
  • Noise level

Recycled wastewater

Water recycling plays a vital role in a sustainable future. It indirectly saves drinking water being used for non-critical applications.
This recycled water can be effectively used for non-potable purposes such as agriculture, landscape, parks, industrial cooling & processes, toilet flushing, dust suppression, construction activities, concrete mixing and recharging of artificial lakes and a host of other gainful applications.
Wastewater treatment and recycling solves two problems simultaneously:

  • ONE: statutory compliance by reducing environmental pollution; and
  • TWO: utilizing it for many gainful applications saving freshwater costs.
Treated wastewater

These are National Regulatory Standards for wastewater discharged to surface waters.

Test Parameters
  • Ammonical nitrogen
  • Arsenic
  • Bio-assay test
  • BOD
  • Cadmium
  • Chromium
  • COD
  • Colour
  • Copper
  • Cyanide
  • Dissolved phosphate
  • Fluorides
  • Free ammonia
  • Hexavalent chromium
  • Iron
  • Lead
  • Manganese
  • Mercury
  • Nickel
  • Nitrate nitrogen
  • Odour
  • pH
  • Phenolic compounds
  • Selenium
  • Sulphide
  • Temperature
  • Total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN)
  • Total oil & grease
  • Total residual chlorine
  • Total suspended solids
  • Vanadium
  • Zinc
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River, stream & nalla water

In the context of pollution levels of surface water, the quality of the same needs to be controlled by regulating surface runoffs and pollutional discharges, since these water sources are mostly used further for agriculture, drinking, bathing and industrial purposes. CPCB has regulated the end-use of surface water according to its quality criteria.

Biological parameters
  • Algae
  • Chlorophyll
  • E. coli
  • Faecal coliform
  • Palmer’s / Nygaard’s pollution index
  • Planktonic identification / count
  • Total coliform
General parameters
  • Ammonia
  • Barium
  • Bicarbonates
  • BOD
  • Boron
  • Calcium
  • Chlorides
  • COD
  • Colour
  • Conductivity
  • Dissolved oxygen
  • Fluorides
  • Heavy metals
  • Iron
  • Magnesium
  • Manganese
  • Nitrates
  • pH
  • Potassium
  • Reactive silica
  • Sodium
  • Sulphates
  • Temperature
  • Total dissolved solids
  • Total hardness
  • Total nitrogen
  • Total oil & grease
  • Total phosphorus
  • Total suspended solids
  • Turbidity

Sewage & sullage

Sewage and sullage are generated from household activities and other domestic usage of water. As sullage weakens wastewater and is generated from non-toilet usage of water, such as bath or handwash, it still contains microbial and organic, inorganic pollutants.
Therefore, both types of wastewater need to be tested for their respective treatment approaches and generally following parameters can give their characteristics.

General parameters
  • Ammonical nitrogen
  • BOD
  • COD
  • Faecal coliform
  • pH
  • Phosphorus
  • Suspended solids
  • Total nitrogen
  • Total suspended solids
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Shop illumination

Due to poor lighting the quality of work and productivity gets affected, especially in the circumstances where precision is required.
Insufficient or excess brightness can strain the eyes and cause headaches and discomfort. This leads to mistakes at work, affecting quality and productivity.

General parameters
  • Illumination survey

Shop ventilation

Based on results of ventilation survey in industries, homes, schools, or offices, the experts can design necessary modifications to enhance efficacy of the ventilation and thereby indoor air quality.
People productivity can be greatly improved by improving the quality of indoor air.

General parameters
  • Air changes rate
  • Total air flow
  • Volume of location
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Sludge / solid / hazardous waste / leachates

General parameters
  • Ammonia
  • Ammonical nitrogen
  • Ash content
  • Bromide
  • Bulk density
  • Chlorides
  • Corrosivity
  • Cyanide
  • Electrical conductivity
  • Fluorides
  • Gross calorific value
  • Ignibility / flash point
  • Inorganic matter
  • Loss on drying
  • Loss on ignition
  • Moisture content
  • Nitrates
  • Nitrites
  • Organic carbon / matter
  • pH
  • Phosphate
  • Sulphates
  • Total nitrogen
  • Total solids
  • Total water-soluble salt
  • Volatile solids

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