Critical review: How well do house plants perform as indoor air cleaners?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Girman, John ^c   Phillips, Tom ^a   Levin, Hal ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD   (United States)

^b Building Ecology Research Group   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Air cleaning; Plants; Pollution reduction; VOC

Indexed keywords

AIR CLEANING; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; CRITICAL REVIEW; FIELD STUDIES; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR PLANTS; PLANTS; POLLUTION REDUCTION; REMOVAL RATE; SEALED CHAMBERS;

AIR CLEANERS; EXHIBITIONS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; POLLUTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 84872674388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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