Dimensionless correlations to predict VOC emissions from dry building materials

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 352-359

  Qian, Ke ^a   Zhang, Yinping ^a   Little, John C ^b   Wang, Xinke ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensionless correlations; Dry building material; Emission; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CORRELATION METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

BIOT NUMBERS; DATA FITTING; DIMENSIONLESS CORRELATIONS; DRY BUILDING MATERIALS;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; CORRELATION; MASS TRANSFER; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY;

EID: 33845456226     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.07.042     Document Type: Article

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