Standard formaldehyde source for chamber testing of material emissions: Model development, experimental evaluation, and impacts of environmental factors

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7848-7854

  Wei, Wenjuan ^a,b   Howard Reed, Cynthia ^b   Persily, Andrew ^b   Zhang, Yinping ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INSTRUMENTS; MICROCHANNELS; SILICONES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FORMALDEHYDE EMISSION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; REFERENCE CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

FORMALDEHYDE;

FORMALDEHYDE; STAINLESS STEEL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHYLENE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORMALDEHYDE; HEALTH RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; VENTILATION;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE; CHEMISTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FORMALDEHYDE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84880531230     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400721j     Document Type: Article

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