Indoor air quality in naturally ventilated Italian classrooms

Atmosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1652-1675

  Fuoco, Fernanda Carmen ^a   Stabile, Luca ^a   Buonanno, Giorgio ^a,b   Trassiera, Concepcion Vargas ^a   Massimo, Angelamaria ^a   Russi, Aldo ^a   Mazaheri, Mandana ^b   Morawska, Lidia ^b   Andrade, Alexandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c SANTA CATARINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Airing by opening windows; Classroom; Ni Nout ratio; Particle number concentration

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RADON; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CHILDREN'S HEALTH; CLASSROOM; COARSE PARTICLES; DEGREE OF PENETRATION; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; PARTICLE NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE NUMBERS; RADON CONCENTRATIONS;

TEACHING;

AIR QUALITY; CHILD HEALTH; INDOOR AIR; PARTICULATE MATTER; STUDENT; VENTILATION;

ITALY;

EID: 84949570485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos6111652     Document Type: Article

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