Assessment of air quality from primary school classrooms and the presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 55-61

  Kovacs, Melinda Haydee ^a,b   Roba, Carmen ^a,b   Roşu, Cristina ^b   Neamţiu, Iulia ^b,c   Gurzǎu, Eugen ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ISOTOPIC AND MOLECULAR TECHNOLOGIES   (Romania)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c Environmental Health Center   (Romania)

Author keywords

Alba county; Gas chromatography; Indoor air pollution; Mass spectrometer detector; Romania; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDOOR AIR; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIMARY EDUCATION; URBANIZATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALBA; ROMANIA;

EID: 84885442816     PISSN: 18424090     EISSN: 1844489X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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