Transport of polar and non-polar volatile compounds in polystyrene foam and oriented strand board

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 3241-3250

  Yuan, Huali ^a   Little, John C ^a   Hodgson, Alfred T ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desorption; Diffusion; Emissions; Hexanal; Hysteresis; Model; Sorption; Styrene

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; FOAMS; HYSTERESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; POLYSTYRENES; SORPTION; STYRENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

HEXANAL TRANSPORT; NONLINEAR FREUNDLICH ISOTHERM; REVERSIBLE SORPTION;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HEXANAL; POLYSTYRENE; STYRENE; VOLATILE AGENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; EMISSION; EQUILIBRIUM; ISOTHERM; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTION KINETICS; SORPTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; FOAM; HYSTERESIS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ISOTHERM; MODEL; POLARIMETRY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34047111412     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.08.057     Document Type: Article

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