Characterisation of VOC and formaldehyde emission from building materials in a static environmental chamber: Model development and application

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-225

  Xiong, Jianyin ^a,b   Zhang, Yinping ^b   Huang, Shaodan ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biotnumber; Indoor air quality; Mass transfer Fourier number; Material emissions; Partition coefficients; Static environmental chamber; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 79954451828     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: 14230070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X103874801     Document Type: Article

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