PROPUESTA DE DISEÑO PARA EL MONITOREO DE CALIDAD DE AIRE EN LA CIUDAD DE GUAYAQUIL

Abstract

The population increase added to the rapid industrial growth has generated the alteration of pollutants in the ambient air. Air pollution has generated health effects such as catastrophic diseases and death worldwide due to the dispersion of pollutants from fixed sources. In the city of Guayaquil, the information is limited and, at the same time, it does not have a real-time warning and monitoring system for pollutants and their behavior in air quality. The main objective of this study was to propose a network design for air quality monitoring in the city of Guayaquil and it is consistency with the location and equipment of monitoring stations to improve air quality and well-being in the urban area. The monitoring stations for air quality were determined by means of population density, meteorological parameters, selection criteria and satellite images such as Sentinel 5P and Copernicus. Therefore, three monitoring stations were established in the Northwest, South II and West. As a result, in each monitoring station from one to three contaminants were found, in addition, the Industrial Land Use was presented in different sites of the study area. It was concluded that the analysis carried out established the ideal site for each monitoring station, emphasizing the pertinent criteria together with the pollutants already determined by the current environmental regulations. However, due to the lack of updated information, the analysis must be complemented with bibliographic studies related to the subject.