PMID- 34868597
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220607
IS  - 2052-336X (Print)
IS  - 2052-336X (Electronic)
VI  - 20
IP  - 1
DP  - 2022 Jun
TI  - Pre-COVID-19 pandemic: effects on air quality in the three cities of India using 
      fuzzy MCDM model.
PG  - 41-51
LID - 10.1007/s40201-021-00754-2 [doi]
AB  - Due to urbanization and industrialization pollution level increases. Air 
      pollution directly affects to human health. Air Quality Indices (AQI) method is 
      related to measuring the concentration of different pollutants PM(10), NO(2), 
      SO(2) and other pollutants. The fuzzy Logic air quality index calculates in 
      single value of AQI defines limits 0 to 1. In this study, a comparison of air 
      quality data of three cities was conducted with the help of fuzzy logic 
      algorithm. It used to evaluating Indices through fuzzy multi criteria decision 
      making (MCDM) framework in which linguistic terms of experts opinion and 
      perception, accordingly computing matrix is constructed for sub criteria. There 
      are five linguistic terms used in this framework to create membership functions 
      such as high significant, significant, average significant, low significant and 
      not significant. The three cities, Bangalore, Mysore, and Hubli-Dharwad air 
      quality datas was taken for analysis and evaluating indices during pre-COVID 
      years (2017, 2018, and 2019). The AQI value shows that Bangalore has the highest 
      pollution level while Mysore has the lowest. Using the fuzzy theory, results show 
      that Bangalore and Hubli-Dharwad decrease in pollution level by -0.074921% and 
      -0.04797%. Negative sign shows the decrease pollution level while Mysore increase 
      pollution level by 0.011792%. Overall the results show that AQI of Mysore city is 
      low compared to Bangalore and Hubli-Dharwad. Also, this study reveals air quality 
      disseminated through industrial processes and automobile emissions in India 
      cities during pre-COVID pandemic years.
CI  - (c) Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
FAU - Suresh, S
AU  - Suresh S
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology 
      Bhopal, 462 003 Madhya Pradesh, India. GRID: grid.419487.7. ISNI: 0000 0000 9191 
      860X
FAU - Modi, Rahul
AU  - Modi R
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology 
      Bhopal, 462 003 Madhya Pradesh, India. GRID: grid.419487.7. ISNI: 0000 0000 9191 
      860X
FAU - Sharma, A K
AU  - Sharma AK
AD  - Department of Civil Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology 
      Bhopal, 462 003 Madhya Pradesh, India. GRID: grid.419487.7. ISNI: 0000 0000 9191 
      860X
FAU - Arisutha, S
AU  - Arisutha S
AD  - Energy Centre, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology & Eco-Science and 
      Technology, Bhopal-462 003, Madhya Pradesh, India. GRID: grid.419487.7. ISNI: 
      0000 0000 9191 860X
FAU - Sillanpaa, Mika
AU  - Sillanpaa M
AD  - Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000 
      Vietnam. GRID: grid.444918.4. ISNI: 0000 0004 1794 7022
AD  - Faculty of Environment and Chemical Engineering, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 
      550000 Vietnam. GRID: grid.444918.4. ISNI: 0000 0004 1794 7022
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Mining, Metallurgy and Chemical 
      Engineering, University of Johannesburg, P. O. Box 17011, Doornfontein, 2028 
      South Africa. GRID: grid.412988.e. ISNI: 0000 0001 0109 131X
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211129
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Health Sci Eng
JT  - Journal of environmental health science & engineering
JID - 101613643
PMC - PMC8627843
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air pollution
OT  - Air quality index
OT  - Function
OT  - Fuzzy logic
OT  - Indian cities
OT  - Linguistic
OT  - Membership
COIS- Competing interestsI declare that no any conflict of interest with all 
      co-authors.
EDAT- 2021/12/07 06:00
MHDA- 2021/12/07 06:01
PMCR- 2022/11/29
CRDT- 2021/12/06 09:13
PHST- 2021/01/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/10/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/12/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/12/07 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/12/06 09:13 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/11/29 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 754 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s40201-021-00754-2 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Environ Health Sci Eng. 2021 Nov 29;20(1):41-51. doi: 
      10.1007/s40201-021-00754-2. eCollection 2022 Jun.