Carbon monoxide generation, dispersion and exposure from indoor operation of gasoline-powered electric generators under actual weather conditions

Building and Environment

Volumn 56, Issue , 2012, Pages 283-290

  Wang, Liangzhu ^a   Emmerich, Steven J ^b   Persily, Andrew K ^b   Lin, Cheng Chun ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide exposure; Carbon monoxide gasoline powered generator; In situ experiments; Multi zone

Indexed keywords

AIR CHANGE RATES; CO-GENERATION; CONSUMPTION RATES; ENCLOSED SPACES; GASOLINE-POWERED GENERATORS; GENERATOR LOAD; HURRICANE KATRINA; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; INDOOR OPERATIONS; MULTI-ZONE; POWER OUTAGE; RUNNING-IN; SIMULATION MODEL; VENTILATION MODEL; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WINTER STORMS;

CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; GASOLINE; HURRICANES; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; STORMS;

OUTAGES;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EQUIPMENT; INDOOR AIR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

EID: 84860507237     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.03.016     Document Type: Article

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