Mass concentrations of BTEX inside air environment of buses in Changsha, China

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 421-427

  Chen, Xiaokai ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^a   Zhang, Quan ^a   Chen, Hong ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BTEX; Indoor air quality; Mass concentration; Public buses

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CHARCOAL; ADSORPTION TUBES; AIR ENVIRONMENT; AIR SAMPLES; BTEX; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; INFLUENCING FACTOR; LIMIT LEVELS; MASS CONCENTRATION; MEAN VALUES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION EQUATIONS; POLLUTION LEVEL; PUBLIC BUS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

ADSORPTION; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BENZENE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DESORPTION; ETHYLBENZENE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LEATHER; LINEAR REGRESSION; POLLUTION; TANNING; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

BUSES;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BTEX; BUS TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDOOR AIR; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

CHANGSHA; CHINA; HUNAN;

EID: 77957807202     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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