Evaluation of various activated carbons for air cleaning - Towards design of immune and sustainable buildings

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 35, 2008, Pages 8176-8184

  Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Lee, Chang Seo ^b   Pant, Bhuvan ^b   Bolourani, Golnoush ^a   Lakdawala, Ness ^b   Bastani, Arash ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Filter; Mechanical ventilation; Removal efficiency; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; AIR CLEANERS; AIR FILTERS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BUILDINGS; CHARCOAL; CHEMICAL CLEANING; CYCLOHEXANE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ESTERS; FLOW OF GASES; FULLERENES; GRANULAR MATERIALS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; KETONES; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROUS MATERIALS; REMOVAL; STANDARDIZATION; TESTING; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FILTER; MECHANICAL VENTILATION; REMOVAL EFFICIENCY; VENTILATION;

AIR QUALITY;

ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACTIVATED CARBON; CYCLOHEXANE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AIR QUALITY; BUILDING; DESIGN; FILTRATION; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTION CONTROL; SUSTAINABILITY; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BUILDING; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FILTRATION; FLOW RATE; HUMIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 53749091637     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.07.061     Document Type: Article

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