The effect of wet film thickness on VOC emissions from a finishing varnish

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 302, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 75-84

  Lee, Shun Cheng ^a   Kwok, Ngai Hong ^a   Guo, Hai ^a   Hung, Wing Tat ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Building materials; Environmental chamber; Modeling; Thickness; Varnish; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs); Wet film

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; METALLIC FILMS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; VARNISH;

WET FILMS;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

1,3,5 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 2 XYLENE; 3,4 XYLENE; CHLOROBENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BUILDING; EMISSION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR SAMPLING; ALUMINUM FOIL; ARTICLE; FILM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; THICKNESS; VARNISH;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PAINT; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0037454685     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00340-6     Document Type: Article

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