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Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Stuart Batterman
Funding Sources
Funding Sources
Indian Council of Medical Research
Status
Status
Current
About this Project
About this Project
This project is aimed at characterizing and controlling exposures at petroleum refineries in India, and will develop capacity for advanced methods at the National Institute of Occupational Health in Meghaninagar, Ahmedabad. Currently there are 17 oil refineries producing a total of 127 million tons per year of petroleum products in India. The single private sector facility - and the largest -- is in Jamnagar, Gujarat State, producing 27 million tons per year. All refinieries are increasing production. This project has the objectives of : utilizing state-of-the-art methods to monitor toxic emissions, e.g., thermal desorption and GC-MS analysis; utilizing urinary benzene, 1-hydroxypyrene and other biomarkers of worker exposure; evaluating personal exposure of a subset of refinery workers; surveying health effects of these workers; and suggesting possible interventions and controls to reduce exposures to toxic pollutants.
Refineries have hundreds of release points for toxics, e.g., stacks, flares, valves and other fugitive release locations.
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