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Testing and sampling devices for monitoring volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in indoor air
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Adults spend most of their time in enclosed spaces (e.g., apartment, office and public buildings). According to research conducted by scientists, air quality indoors is much worse than the ambient air quality outdoors. Hazardous chemicals found in air indoors can adversely affect the functioning of the human body and cause many respiratory and circulatory diseases. Harmful chemical compounds (mainly volatile organic compounds and semi-volatile organic compounds) in the indoor environment are present because they are emitted from building and construction materials, and indoor equipment.One way of determining the levels of emissions of harmful chemicals is to use emission test chambers (ETCs), which can optimize analytical parameters (e.g., temperature, humidity, loading factor of the test chamber and the air-exchange rate).This article reviews the literature on the analytical methodologies that are used for different types of ETC for estimating emissions of chemicals from building and construction materials and components of indoor equipment.
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
no. 32,
pages 76 - 86,
ISSN: 0165-9936 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Bibliographic description:
- Marć M., Zabiegała B., Namieśnik J.: Testing and sampling devices for monitoring volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in indoor air// TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. -Vol. 32, (2012), s.76-86
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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