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Figure 2: EWO results reporting diagram. The diagram is for five measured locations in a building planned to be used as storage rooms<br />
for the Historical Museum in Oslo (KHM). The results for locations 4 and 5 are near the same value. The short horizontal markers<br />
represent all the EWO measurements performed in the EU project MASTER, in showcases, gallery locations and outdoors, from which<br />
the dose-response equations (Eq. 1. and 2) were derived.<br />
will for the foreseeable future be kept in “normal<br />
atmospheres” where the level of pollutants will<br />
mostly be determined by the location, construction,<br />
materials, and ventilation properties of buildings<br />
and “containers” (showcases, microclimate-frames,<br />
storage boxes etc.) where the objects are kept. For<br />
any location a lowered pollution level and exposure<br />
is always preferable. However, for the conservator,<br />
it is useful to know if a particular pollutant level<br />
is down to a “tolerable level”. A “tolerable level”<br />
could be when further reduction of the pollutants<br />
for that location becomes much more expensive<br />
or is not technically or aesthetically feasible. The<br />
threshold levels in Table 1 were evaluated to be<br />
obtainable good conditions for the respective<br />
five major representative classes of museum<br />
locations. Tables 3 and 4 [7] show a selection of<br />
degradation effects observed on materials for doses<br />
62<br />
(concentration * duration of exposure) of NO 2 and<br />
O 3 at these levels. [3,5]<br />
Table 3 shows that plant dyes on cotton are more<br />
sensitive to NO2 than paper strength which is more<br />
sensitive than natural organic colorants on paper.<br />
Table 4 shows that most sensitive organic colorants<br />
are more sensitive to O3 than photographic film<br />
dyes and images which are more sensitive than<br />
paper and organic colorants on water colour paper<br />
and silk. The observational data in Table 3 and 4<br />
were used as input for Table 2 and give, although<br />
not exactly, equal weight to the concentration levels<br />
and years of exposures in the dose calculation, - so<br />
that e.g. 2 ppb * 10 years = 10 ppb * 2 years. This<br />
is represented by linear dose-response correlations<br />
of the form: