Formaldehyde and other volatile organic chemical emissions in four FEMA temporary housing units

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5626-5632

  Maddalena, Randy ^a   Russell, Marion ^a   Sullivan, Douglas P ^a   Apte, Michael G ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EXCHANGE RATES; COMPOSITE WOODS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMISSION FACTORS; EMISSION RATES; EXPOSURE CONCENTRATION; EXPOSURE LEVEL; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HOUSING UNITS; INDOOR CONCENTRATION; MATERIAL LOADING; MATERIAL SURFACE; MEDIAN CONCENTRATION; ODOR THRESHOLDS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; REFERENCE VALUES; TRIMETHYL; VENTILATION RATE; VOLATILE ORGANIC CHEMICAL EMISSIONS; VOLATILE ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORMALDEHYDE; HOUSING; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

2,2,4 TRIMETHYL 1,3 PENTANEDIOL DIISOBUTYRATE; ACETALDEHYDE; ACETIC ACID; ACETONE; FORMALDEHYDE; HEXANAL; PHENOL; PINENE; SEALANT; TETRADECANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL DERIVATIVE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACETIC ACID; FORMALDEHYDE; INDOOR AIR; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WOOD;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BUILDING; HOUSING; ODOR; POLLUTANT; REFERENCE VALUE; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES;

ACETIC ACID; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BUTYRATES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FORMALDEHYDE; HOUSING; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68049128331     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9011178     Document Type: Article

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