Passive emission colorimetric sensor (PECS) for measuring emission rates of formaldehyde based on an enzymatic reaction and reflectance photometry

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4472-4477

  Shinohara, Naohide ^a   Kajiwara, Tomohisa ^b   Ohnishi, Masato ^b   Kodama, Kenichi ^b   Yanagisawa, Yukio ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Nippon Living Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; BUILDING MATERIALS; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; CORRELATION METHODS; DETECTORS; FORMALDEHYDE; FUNCTION EVALUATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; PIGMENTS; RATE CONSTANTS; REFLECTION; SENSORS; SOLUTIONS;

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; COLOR CHANGING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION EQUATIONS; DETERMINATION COEFFICIENTS; EMISSION RATES (ER); ENZYMATIC REACTIONS; LIMITS OF DETECTION (LOD); LINEAR FUNCTIONS; POWER FUNCTIONS;

REACTION RATES;

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANOL; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ACETONE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COLORIMETRY; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHANOL; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANOL; PHOTOMETER; REFLECTANCE; SENSOR; STANDARD (REGULATION); TOLUENE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLORIMETRY; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; ENZYME MECHANISM; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTOMETRY; SENSOR;

COLORIMETRY; ENZYMES; FORMALDEHYDE; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45249107056     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es7029762     Document Type: Article

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