Air quality in transportation Cabins - Part I: How much do we know about it?

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 112 PART 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 505-517

  Cheng, Xiaoying ^a,b   Tay, Richard ^b   Tan, Zhongchao ^a,b   Yuan, Wenqiao ^c  

^a ASHRAE ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Navistar International Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMOKING ENVIRONMENTS; THRESHOLD VALUES; TRANSPORTATION CABINS;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; SMOKE; TRANSPORTATION; VENTILATION;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 33750354470     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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