On-site passive flux sampler measurement of emission rates of carbonyls and VOCs from multiple indoor sources

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 859-863

  Shinohara, Naohide ^a   Kai, Yuya ^b   Mizukoshi, Atsushi ^b   Fujii, Minoru ^c   Kumagai, Kazukiyo ^b   Okuizumi, Yumiko ^b   Jona, Miki ^b   Yanagisawa, Yukio ^b  

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

^b Graduate School of Frontier Sciences   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air exchange rates; Boundary layer; Building material; Emission rates; Emission source; Flux; Formaldehyde; Toluene

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; CARBONYLATION; CARPET MANUFACTURE; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; DOORS; FLOORS; FLUXES; FORMALDEHYDE; FULLERENES; HYDRODYNAMICS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR EXCHANGE RATES; BOUNDARY LAYER; BUILDING MATERIAL; EMISSION RATES; EMISSION SOURCE; FLUX;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBONYL COMPOUND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FORMALDEHYDE; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTANT SOURCE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 58749116821     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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