Removal of indoor contaminants by photocatalytic reaction

HB 2006 - Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 249-254

  Salthammer, T ^a,b   Fuhrmann, F ^a   Schulz, N ^a   Siwinski, N ^a  

^a Wilhelm Klauditz Institut (WKI)   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chamber testing; Formaldehyde; NO2; Photocatalysis; VOCs

Indexed keywords

1 ,2-DICHLOROBENZENE; AIR CLEANING SYSTEMS; CATALYTIC SURFACES; CHAMBER EXPERIMENTS; CHAMBER TESTING; DYNAMIC CONDITION; FLOW REACTORS; HIGH INTENSITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; NO2; PHOTOCATALYTIC REACTIONS; RESIDENCE TIME; STATIC CONDITIONS; VOCS; TIO;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CARBON MONOXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; REACTION RATES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NITROGEN OXIDES;

EID: 79954959501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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