A new clean air delivery rate test applied to five portable indoor air cleaners

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 409-417

  Mølgaard, Bjarke ^a   Koivisto, Antti Joonas ^b   Hussein, Tareq ^a,c   Hämeri, Kaarle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; FILTER-BASED; INDOOR AEROSOL MODEL; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; PARTICLE CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE REMOVAL; TEST PROTOCOLS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MINING DRILLS;

AIR CLEANERS;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

AEROSOL; AIR FILTER; AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CLEAN AIR DELIVERY RATE; CLEANING; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FILTRATION; GENERATOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IONIZATION; MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84896864630     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2014.883063     Document Type: Article

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