Emissions of Ultrafine Particles and Volatile Organic Compounds from Commercially Available Desktop Three-Dimensional Printers with Multiple Filaments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1260-1268

  Azimi, Parham ^a   Zhao, Dan ^a   Pouzet, Claire ^a,b   Crain, Neil E ^c   Stephens, Brent ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b EIVP   (France)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYMER BLENDS; PRINTING MACHINERY; PRINTING PRESSES; STYRENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ACRYLONITRILE BUTADIENE STYRENE; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; FILAMENT MATERIALS; HIGH IMPACT POLYSTYRENE; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; PARTICLE FILTRATION; POTENTIAL EXPOSURE; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

3D PRINTERS;

1,3 BUTADIENE; ACRYLONITRILE; CAPROLACTAM; NYLON; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYSTYRENE; STYRENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RESEARCH WORK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WOOD;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; GENERAL DEVICE; PRINTING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING; TEMPERATURE; WOOD; ANALYSIS; DEVICES; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

FILAMENTS; PRINTERS; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN; VOC;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINTING; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84957593302     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04983     Document Type: Article

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