Influence of the inlet air in efficiency of photocatalytic devices for mineralization of VOCs in air-conditioning installations

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11198-11207

  Jimenez Relinque, E ^a   Castellote, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN EDUARDO TORROJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air exchange rate; Clean air delivery rate; Kinetic reaction; Parametric model; Photocatalytic air cleaner devices; Preconditioning of air; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; MINERALIZATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; REACTION KINETICS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMIDITY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CATALYSIS; DECONTAMINATION; HUMIDITY; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84907806446     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-2632-2     Document Type: Article

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