Building materials. VOC emissions, diffusion behaviour and implications from their use

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 169, Issue , 2012, Pages 230-234

  Katsoyiannis, Athanasios ^a,b   Leva, Paolo ^a   Barrero Moreno, Josefa ^a   Kotzias, Dimitrios ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Building materials; Emission test; Environmental chamber; Neopentylglycol; VOCs

Indexed keywords

CEMENT-BASED; DETECTION LIMITS; EMISSION TEST; NEOPENTYLGLYCOL; VOC EMISSIONS; VOCS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMBERS; GLYCOLS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

CALCIUM OXIDE; CEMENT; NEOPENTYL GLYCOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; DETECTION METHOD; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SAMPLING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION CHAMBER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; SAMPLING;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84863795266     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.04.030     Document Type: Article

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