Identification of anthropogenic volatile organic compounds correlating with bad indoor air quality

9th International Conference and Exhibition - Healthy Buildings 2009, HB 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Burdack Freitag, Andrea ^a   Rampf, Rainer ^a   Mayer, Florian ^a   Breuer, Klaus ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bad air quality; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Human emissions; Marker compounds; VOCs

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLES; EMPTY ROOMS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; MARKER COMPOUNDS; VOCS;

ACETONE; ETHANOL; EXHIBITIONS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR QUALITY;

EID: 84872654036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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