Gas-phase filters breakthrough models at low concentration - Effectof relative humidity

Building and Environment

Volumn 75, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Khazraei Vizhemehr, Ali ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Lee, Chang Seo ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breakthrough; Gas phase filter; Model; Relative humidity; VOC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893831869     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.01.010     Document Type: Article

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