EXPAIR

The World Health Organization evaluates that air pollution kills 13 people every minute all around the world. This pollution concerns outdoor and indoor exposition. Some pollutants can be found mainly outside (CO, NOx, particles…) but others (Benzene, formaldehyde…) are mainly produced inside our homes, offices, companies.
Indoor pollution exposition is poorly characterized, and a strong demand from public organisms is expressed to make available exposition sensors of unregulated species.

The aim of EXPAIR project is to provide some measurement tools of air quality and pollutant expositions (collective and individual) and use them to understand the phenomena involved in the appearance of human pathologies during short- and long-term exposure.
This project is multidisciplinary in nature, aiming to advance the development of innovative sensors utilizing Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (QEPAS) technology. Simultaneously, it seeks to deploy an affordable wearable device known as CANARIN for the purpose of conducting high-resolution measurements of environmental and individual parameters, specifically targeting indoor pollutants such as formaldehyde (H2CO), benzene (C6H6), and carbon monoxide (CO). The overarching goal is to evaluate the impact of these pollutants on cardiorespiratory health.