Differentiation of air samples with and without microbial volatile organic compounds by aspiration ion mobility spectrometry and semiconductor sensors

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2184-2191

  Räsänen, Riikka Marjaana ^a   Håkansson, Markus ^a   Viljanen, Martti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aspiration ion mobility spectrometry; Microbial volatile organic compounds; Multivariate data analysis; Principal component analysis; Semiconductor sensors

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLES; AIR SAMPLING; BEFORE AND AFTER; DETECTOR RESPONSE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR SENSORS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLASS CHAMBERS; HEADSPACES; HUMID CONDITIONS; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; MOULD GROWTH; MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS; PEAK INTENSITY; SEMICONDUCTOR SENSORS; STERILE CONDITIONS; TD-GC-MS; TIME TRENDS;

ADSORPTION; AIR QUALITY; BUILDING MATERIALS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; DATA REDUCTION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NANOELECTRONICS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SENSORS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; THERMAL DESORPTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; INDOOR AIR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSOR; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 77953534276     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.03.018     Document Type: Article

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