Simultaneous indoor and outdoor on-line hourly monitoring of atmospheric volatile organic compounds in an urban building. The role of inside and outside sources

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 426, Issue , 2012, Pages 327-335

  de Blas, Maite ^a   Navazo, Marino ^a   Alonso, Lucio ^a   Durana, Nieves ^a   Gomez, Maria Carmen ^a   Iza, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Auto GC FID; Auto GC MS; Indoor air quality; Risk assessment; VOC

Indexed keywords

1-HEPTENE; 1-PENTENE; 2-METHYLPENTANE; AUTO-GC-FID; AUTO-GC-MS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; INDOOR ACTIVITIES; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; INDOOR SOURCES; METHYLCYCLOPENTANE; MIXING RATIOS; N-HEPTANES; N-HEXANE; ON-LINE MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TETRACHLOROETHYLENES; TIME-RESOLUTION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN BUILDINGS;

BENZENE; BUILDINGS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLORINE; HALOCARBONS; HEXANE; MIXING; PARAFFINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

1 HEPTENE; 1 PENTENE; 2,2,4 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE; HEPTANE; HEXANE; ISOHEXANE; METHYLCYCLOPENTANE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BUILDING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDOOR AIR; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIXING RATIO; MONITORING; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; ONLINE MONITORING; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SPAIN; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

SPAIN;

EID: 84860683847     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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