Bangkok to test run air purifying tower on 8th October

[rooster59]

Bangkok to test run air purifying tower on 8th October

Tanakorn Sangiam

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Air quality in Bangkok and neighboring provinces has returned to normal after rain in recent days, which helped eliminate airborne particles. Latest air quality readings range from good to very good. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is to install and test run an air purifying tower situated below the Siam BTS Skytrain station on 8th October to gauge its effectiveness in PM 2.5 dust reduction.

 

The Governor of Bangkok, Pol Gen Asawin Kwanmuang announced today that the BMA had received an offer from a private company and Kasetsat University to operate the air purifying tower.

 

Tests will be conducted to measure the concentration of PM 2.5 airborne particulate matter in the area before and after the installation of the tower. The BMA will be seeking sponsorship from private companies to install more of these devices should the test prove their operational effectiveness. One company, the retail developer Siam Piwat, has already contacted the BMA to offer an air purification device.

 

"We will find locations for these devices, such as by the road and on walkways. We have to make sure an installed device doesn’t obstruct foot and road traffic. We have to manage these for the companies, which have confirmed with us they can get a suitable device from their supplier within 45 days. The device has been bought by them, not the BMA, but we will help find installation sites."

 

At Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital, the first hospital in Thailand operating a specialized pollution clinic opened earlier this year, the hospital director Somboon Tosborvorn said the hospital is prepared to screen patients affected from PM 2.5 dust during polluted period, who will be referred to the pollution clinic where specialized doctors will provide information and healthcare recommendations, as well as keeping track of the patients’ conditions. The clinic has treated 3 patients so far since the report of haze last week.

 

Meanwhile, the Department for Development of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine (DTAM) has held a seminar on healthcare practices preventing illnesses from PM 2.5 dust. In this seminar, a pharmacist from Chao Phraya Aphaiphubet Hospital Pakakrong Kwankhao said the consumption of some herbs such as Indian gooseberry and tumeric can help fight symptoms caused by PM 2.5 dust, while little ironweed can help improve lungs functionality; infused water from boiling laurel clockvine leaves can have detoxification properties but should not be consumed continuously for more than a month due to high cadmium content; as well as fresh green chiretta leaves which can help with common cold and alleviate inflammation and sore throat, but should be consumed only every 6-8 hours, with extra cautions for persons with cholecystitis.

 

The Pollution Control Department has updated the air quality data on air4thai.pcd.go.th website this morning, showing very good to moderate air quality in Bangkok and neighboring provinces. Some areas such as Bangkok Yai district was reported with no dust concentration, while some areas such as Din Daeng and Lak Si districts are reported with moderate air quality. In Saraburi province however, dust level in Na Phra Lan subdistrict today reached 113 microgram per cubic meter, making the air quality starting to cause health effects.

 

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2019-10-06

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[mok199]

What could possibly go wrong..

[smedly]

OMG are they serious ?

 

This is right up there with boats clearing flood water and bomb detectors

[Hayduke]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

The Governor of Bangkok, Pol Gen Asawin Kwanmuang announced today that the BMA had received an offer from a private company

 

The General's favorite scientific innovators over at Somchai & Somchai Co. LTD land another lucrative government contract....

 

 

[johng]

They need one of these

[SoilSpoil]

Instead if the tower of Babel, we are now seeing the tower of Bangkok. 

 

Seriously, the BMA will have to replace the filters after 10 minutes.

[Prairieboy]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The Governor of Bangkok, Pol Gen Asawin Kwanmuang

He obviously didn't gain his position based on intelligence or merit to be suckered into this farce!  Perhaps he owns the 'private' company!

 

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

the consumption of some herbs such as Indian gooseberry and tumeric can help fight symptoms caused by PM 2.5 dust, while little ironweed can help improve lungs functionality; infused water from boiling laurel clockvine leaves can have detoxification properties but should not be consumed continuously for more than a month due to high cadmium content; as well as fresh green chiretta leaves which can help with common cold and alleviate inflammation and sore throat, but should be consumed only every 6-8 hours, with extra cautions for persons with cholecystitis.

This method could prove just as ineffective as the air purifier!  Has common sense totally abandoned this country??

[Chelseafan]

An attempt to treat the symptoms, not the problem.

 

Next week, Governor deems weather in in Bangkok too hot. Plan to change temperature of the sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Latest air quality readings range from good to very good.

Did they buy them from the same people that made the Chenobyl radiation detectors ? 

[CGW]

7 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Did they buy them from the same people that made the Chenobyl radiation detectors ? 

No, but they do also sell a very good bomb detector! 

[FarFlungFalang]

It will be great if this works then we won't have to clean up our act!Brilliant.Such clever thinking.

Edited October 6, 2019 by FarFlungFalang

[Grumpy John]

555! Loving this thread already.  I never stop getting a laugh at some of the scatter brained ideas that pass into reality.  Electric cars,  where do you charge them....from your house....which is connected to a coal fired power station!  And what's that about hubs you say....welcome to LOS the land of many many hubs!  Ps: I am not opposed to electric cars just the obsurdity of charging them from a coal fired power station.....and the fact taxpayer funds are being used to subsidise the purchase of  said cars. 

[neeray]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

We have to make sure an installed device doesn’t obstruct foot and road traffic.

Oh my God no. Don't dare create an obstruction on a foot path.

[worgeordie]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

to make sure an installed device doesn’t obstruct foot and road traffic

You just know some will be placed on the path so

you cannot get past easily,just like other things obstruct

the paths now.

regards Worgeordie

 

[Chassa]

11 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Electric cars,  where do you charge them....from your house....which is connected to a coal fired power station!

No, from a diesel generator!

[neeray]

40 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Did they buy them from the same people that made the Chenobyl radiation detectors ? 

Purchased from same company that supplied the wrist bracelets.

[xylophone]

2 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

He obviously didn't gain his position based on intelligence or merit to be suckered into this farce!  Perhaps he owns the 'private' company!

 

This method could prove just as ineffective as the air purifier!  Has common sense totally abandoned this country??

How can something be abandoned that was never there in the first place!

[Tayaout]

4 hours ago, smedly said:

OMG are they serious ?

 

This is right up there with boats clearing flood water and bomb detectors

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128355/china-builds-worlds-biggest-air-purifier-and-it-seems-be-working

 

It does work but it's like using a bandaid. 

[Redline]

Wake up!  What world do these people live in?  Pathetic, ignorant and insulting this garbage is

[Nyezhov]

22 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128355/china-builds-worlds-biggest-air-purifier-and-it-seems-be-working

 

It does work but it's like using a bandaid. 

Yes. Sometimes its the small steps. Like one cant expect to change transportation patterns overnight in a country thats only really been a "modern" country for 80 years or so, especially when it comes to things like air pollution, where even advanced places like LA cant fix it after 40 years of trying. In the richest country in the world.

 

So while they are working on their transport grid, hopefully, this will help more than spraying water.

[essox essox]

How does one put a tower under a bts station???. Are these towers very small???

[30la]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Air quality in Bangkok and neighboring provinces has returned to normal after rain in recent days, which helped eliminate airborne particles. Latest air quality readings range from good to very good. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is to install and test run an air purifying tower situated below the Siam BTS Skytrain station on 8th October to gauge its effectiveness in PM 2.5 dust reduction.

1. What does normal mean?
2. The rain does not eliminate the 2.5 particles, but makes them fall to the ground and then be raised by the wind!
3. In the almost 25 years I live here, the air in Bangkok has never been good, very good then ...., now the dirty air is no longer just a problem in Bangkok!
4. Those who do not want to commit seriously to solve the problem, look for easy solutions, meaningless that, in the end, only damage!

[Buba Ho Tep]

Wonder whose brother-in-law is in line for that contract?

[tompelli]

1 hour ago, Tayaout said:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128355/china-builds-worlds-biggest-air-purifier-and-it-seems-be-working

 

It does work but it's like using a bandaid. 

From the above article "

A full-sized tower would reach 500 metres (1,640 feet) high with a diameter of 200 metres (656 feet), according to a patent application they filed in 2014.

The size of the greenhouses could cover nearly 30 square kilometres (11.6 square miles) and the plant would be powerful enough to purify the air for a small sized city."

So, just a matter of scale then.

[mok199]

Saddly the only way to make any progress in air quality , is mechanical , because the people of Thailand refuse to abide by any standards or laws...they just don't give a damn...

Edited October 6, 2019 by mok199

[justin case]

the rain took the pollution out of the air... which is now in the water supply

[Srikcir]

28 minutes ago, tompelli said:

From the above article "

A full-sized tower would reach 500 metres (1,640 feet) high with a diameter of 200 metres (656 feet), according to a patent application they filed in 2014.

The size of the greenhouses could cover nearly 30 square kilometres (11.6 square miles) and the plant would be powerful enough to purify the air for a small sized city."

So, just a matter of scale then.

Also a matter of using "clean" energy to operate - solar energy.

Bangkok is likely energized by a largely polluting fossil fuel-based electric grid. So nothing gained.

[tompelli]

This one from Chiang Mai, April 2019

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Air quality in Bangkok and neighboring provinces has returned to normal after rain in recent days, which helped eliminate airborne particles. Latest air quality readings range from good to very good

As soon as the sun shines the water vapour will rise as nature intended and take the PM2.5 particles back up with it... getting rid of the particles at source is the only way to go.. 

[Justgrazing]

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Bangkok to test run air purifying tower on 8th October

What a daft idea .. but as they started it maybe everyone in Bangkok needs to get a leaf blower and just blast a path thru' on their way to wherever and to hell with towers .. And while they are at it next time the rain making planes are up there put some anti riot dye in the mix then the dastardly particles will glow like a rioter and be easily spotted by leaf blower wielding citizens as they alight to earth .. 

Edited October 6, 2019 by Justgrazing
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