Purdue Lab Works To Improve Conditions At Indoor Swimming Pools

Researchers at Purdue University have determined how certain airborne contaminants are created when chlorine reacts with sweat and urine in indoor swimming pools, a step toward learning how to reduce the formation of “volatile disinfection byproducts” that cause respiratory irritation. “Some indoor swimming pools seem to have a characteristic chlorine odor,” said Purdue environmental engineering professor Ernest R. Blatchley III.

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Filed under: Respiratory on February 26th, 2008