C-history method: Rapid measurement of the initial emittable concentration, diffusion and partition coefficients for formaldehyde and VOCs in building materials

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3584-3590

  Xiong, Jianyin ^a,b   Yao, Yuan ^b   Zhang, Yinping ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAMBER EXPERIMENTS; CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; CLOSED CHAMBERS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FULL SCALE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; RAPID MEASUREMENT; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SALIENT FEATURES; THREE PARAMETERS; VOC EMISSIONS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FORMALDEHYDE;

FORMALDEHYDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; EMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORMALDEHYDE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MEASUREMENT METHOD; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION CHAMBER; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FURNITURE; MEASUREMENT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORMALDEHYDE; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79954547348     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200277p     Document Type: Article

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