Determining human exposure and sensory detection of odorous compounds released during showering

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 468-473

  Ömür Özbek, Pinar ^a   Gallagher, Daniel L ^a   Dietrich, Andrea M ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-METHYLISOBORNEOL; AIR FLOW; AIR FLOW-RATE; AQUEOUS CONCENTRATIONS; GEOSMIN; HUMAN EXPOSURES; HUMAN PERCEPTION; HUMAN SENSE; INDOOR AIR CONCENTRATION; LAW CONSTANTS; LIQUID DIFFUSIVITY; LITERATURE DATA; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL PREDICTION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; ODOR THRESHOLDS; ODOROUS COMPOUNDS; STEADY-STATE MODELS; TREE REGRESSION; WATER FLOWS; WATER UTILITY;

AIR; AIR QUALITY; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LINEAR REGRESSION; ODOR REMOVAL; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER SUPPLY;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS);

2 METHYLISOBORNEOL; GEOSMIN; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AIRFLOW; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DIFFUSIVITY; LINER; ODOR; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLUME;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BATH; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CUCUMBER; ENTHALPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; FLOW RATE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ODOR; PROCESS MODEL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SMELLING; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE; VAPORIZATION; WATER FLOW; WATER TRANSPORT;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALDEHYDES; BATHS; BORNANES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NAPHTHOLS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SMELL; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALGAE; CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 78651400671     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1030068     Document Type: Article

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