Influence of air humidity and the distance from the source on negative air ion concentration in indoor air

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 370, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 245-253

  Wu, Chih Cheng ^a   Lee, Grace W M ^a   Yang, Shinhao ^b   Yu, Kuo Pin ^a   Lou, Chia Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Leisure and Recreation Management ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electric discharge; Indoor air; NAI distribution; Negative air ion; Small air ion

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRODES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IONIZATION; IONS;

DISCHARGE ELECTRODES; NAI DISTRIBUTION; NEGATIVE AIR ION (NAI); SMALL AIR ION;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

ANION;

INDOOR AIR; IONIZATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ELECTRODE; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

AIR; AIR IONIZATION; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIONS; HUMIDITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE;

EID: 33748973000     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.07.020     Document Type: Article

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