期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2017
卷号：24
期号：2
页码：213-216
DOI：10.26444/aaem/74562
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Introduction and objective. The Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field (KOGCF), one of the largest in the world,located in the Republic of Kazakhstan (RoK) in Central Asia, is surrounded by 10 settlements with a total population of9,000 people. Approximately73% of this population constantly mention a specific odour of rotten eggs in the air, typicalfor hydrogen sulfide (H2S) emissions, and the occurrence of low-level concentrations of hydrogen sulfide around certainindustrial installations (esp. oil refineries) is a well known fact. Therefore, this study aimed at determining the impact onhuman health and the economic damage to the country due to H2S emissions.Materials and method. Dose-response dependency between H2S concentrations in the air and cardiovascular morbidityusing multiple regression analysis was applied. Economic damage from morbidity was derived with a newly-developedmethod, with Kazakhstani peculiarities taken into account.Results.Hydrogen sulfide air pollution due to the KOGCF activity costs the state almost $60,000 per year. Moreover, this isthe reason for a more than 40% rise incardiovascular morbidity in the region.Conclusion. The reduction of hydrogen sulfide emissions into the air is recommended, as well as successive constantambient air monitoring in future. Economic damage evaluation should be made mandatory, on a legal basis, whenever anindustrial facility operation results in associated air pollution.
关键词：hydrogen sulfide; human health; economic damage; air pollution; oil field; Kazakhstan
