Reactions of ozone on ventilation filters

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 151-158

  Hyttinen, Marko ^a   Pasanen, Pertti ^a   Salo, Jutta ^a   Björkroth, Marko ^c   Vartiainen, Matti ^b   Kalliokoski, Pentti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c Department of Environmental Sciences ^*

Author keywords

Air filter; Air quality; Ozone; Supply air; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDIZING AGENT; OZONE;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; DECOMPOSITION; DUST; FILTER; FILTRATION; ODOR; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038005473     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X03012003002     Document Type: Article

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