A rapid and accurate method, ventilated chamber C-history method, of measuring the emission characteristic parameters of formaldehyde/VOCs in building materials

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 261, Issue , 2013, Pages 542-549

  Huang, Shaodan ^a   Xiong, Jianyin ^b   Zhang, Yinping ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Building material; C history method; Formaldehyde; Indoor air quality (IAQ); Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

C-HISTORY METHOD; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; LINEAR CORRELATION; MASS TRANSFER ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; VENTILATED CHAMBERS;

BUILDING MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; FORMALDEHYDE; VENTILATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

FORMALDEHYDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR QUALITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; EMISSION INVENTORY; FORMALDEHYDE; HEALTH IMPACT; INDOOR AIR; MASS TRANSFER; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT;

BUILDING MATERIAL; C-HISTORY METHOD; FORMALDEHYDE; INDOOR AIR QUALITY (IAQ); VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS);

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

EID: 84883225711     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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