Emission sources and their contribution to indoor air pollution by carbonyl compounds in a school and a residential building in Shizuoka, Japan

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 392-402

  Yamashita, Shohei ^a,b   Kume, Kazunari ^a   Horiike, Toshiyuki ^c   Honma, Nobuyuki ^d   Masahiro, Fusaya ^b   Amagai, Takashi ^b  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HYGIENE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^c Pharmaceutical Affairs Office of Shizuoka Prefecture   (Japan)

^d Shizuoka Industrial Research Institute of Shizuoka Prefecture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbonyl compounds; Emission cell; Emission source; Formaldehyde; Indoor environment; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BUILDING; DEVICES; HOME; HUMAN; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCREENING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84861799001     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: 14230070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X11412631     Document Type: Article

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