A simple method for screening emission sources of carbonyl compounds in indoor air

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 178, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 370-376

  Yamashita, Shohei ^a,d   Kume, Kazunari ^a   Horiike, Toshiyuki ^b   Honma, Nobuyuki ^c   Fusaya, Masahiro ^d   Ohura, Takeshi ^d   Amagai, Takashi ^d  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE   (Japan)

^b Pharmaceutical Affairs Office of Shizuoka Prefecture   (Japan)

^c Hamamatsu Industrial Research Institute of Shizuoka Prefecture   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbonyl compound; Emission source; Flux sampler; Formaldehyde; Indoor environment

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SAMPLING; AIRBORNE CONCENTRATIONS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CARBONYL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE; CONCENTRATION OF; EMISSION RATES; EMISSION SOURCE; EMISSION SOURCES; FORMALDEHYDE CONCENTRATIONS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR CONCENTRATION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOW COSTS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MAIN PARAMETERS; MEDIUM DENSITY FIBERBOARDS; MULTI-SAMPLING; NON DESTRUCTIVE; PASSIVE SAMPLING; PRIMARY SOURCES; SIMPLE METHOD; VOC EMISSIONS; WOOD-BASED COMPOSITES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FORMALDEHYDE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; SAMPLING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CARBONYLATION;

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE;

AIR QUALITY; CARBONYL COMPOUND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; FORMALDEHYDE; INDOOR AIR; PARAMETERIZATION; POINT SOURCE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DEVICE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PREDICTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SCREENING; WOOD;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORMALDEHYDE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WOOD;

EID: 77951498092     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.01.089     Document Type: Article

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