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Chlorine Cough After Swimming
By Eric Knight on July 16, 2020

When air quality is bad in a natatorium, swimmers, coaches, lifeguards, and spectators all suffer. Exposure to airborne chloramines irritates lungs and can cause swimmers to cough. Chlorine...

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Debunking 'Solution by Dilution' for Indoor Swimming Pools
By Chloramine Consulting on November 7, 2019

The old, obsolete approach to natatorium air quality sounded like "the solution to pollution is dilution." In other words, introduce excess outdoor air (OA)–and exhaust more air...

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Chloramine Vapor
By Chloramine Consulting on September 10, 2019

Indoor air quality in natatoriums has many variables and moving pieces, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to one thing: how effectively can the air handling system remove...

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Five Common Mistakes in Natatorium Design
By Chloramine Consulting on August 10, 2019

Common Natatorium Design Mistakes

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Pool Water Chemistry, Part 2: Combined Chlorine
By Chloramine Consulting on April 3, 2019

This article expands on our last article, Part 1. Here we will focus on the process of handling nitrogen compounds in water, which create disinfectant byproducts (DBPs) like chloramines....

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What is a Natatorium?
By Chloramine Consulting on October 23, 2018

A natatorium is a room that contains an indoor swimming pool. These rooms are very unique and different from any other type of room we can think of. Natatoriums not only have evaporation of...

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