Modeling approaches for indoor air VOC emissions from dry building materials - A review

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 111 PART 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 635-645

  Haghight, Fariborz ^a,b   Huang, Hongyu ^b   Lee, Chang Seo ^c  

^a ASHRAE ^*  (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRY BUILDING MATERIALS; MATERIAL EMISSION MODELS; MULTI-PHASE MODELS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; GAS EMISSIONS; POROSITY;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 19044388625     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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