Indoor air pollution sources

Meininghaus, R., Schauenburg, H. and Knoppel, H. (1998) A new device for the simulation of indoor air pollution sources. Environmental Science and Technology, 32, 1861-3. 

Indoor Air Pollution Sources in Buildings, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, VTT-Chemical Technology,... 

Keywords Indoor air Pollution sources Sensory evaluation... 

As a follow-up to the European Audit project, the Database project (European database on indoor air pollution sources in buildings) was launched to investigate the emissions (sensory and chemical) of indoor air sources, and in particular the building materials, more closely. This resulted in the first database of indoor air pollution sources [28]. 

SOPHIE is the acronym adopted for a database of indoor air pollution sources, including building materials and furnishings and ventilation-system components [51]. It represents the result of the work of a vast network of laboratories in Europe developed under the sponsorship of the European Commission. It aims to document the most important indoor pollution sources and to create a model to establish a link between the strength of the pollution sources and the ventilation rate and its consequences in terms of the lAQ in a given space. 

One study compared the effects of living near a fertilizer factory on the respiratory health of 8-9-year-old children (Gomzi and Saric 1997). The study found that the air quality near a fertilizer plant was within acceptable limits for most of the measurement period, with only a few fluctuations beyond acceptable limits. While these fluctuations correlated somewhat with health parameters measured on children living nearby, the rate of respiratory disease was more influenced by indoor air pollution sources than by... 

As demonstrated in the present article, real-time monitoring of organic compounds can be used as a valuable tool in indoor air quality investigations carried out both in the field and in laboratories. Appropriately used, such methods can aid the identification of indoor air pollution sources and facilitate studies of various factors influencing the concentration of organic compounds in indoor air. 

Tichenor B.A., Guo Z. and Sparks L.E. (1993) Fundamental Mass Transfer Models for Indoor Air Pollution Sources. Indoor Air, 3, 263-268. 

EC-European Commission (1994) European database on indoor air pollutant sources in buildings. Newsletter, December. 

Saarela K., Clausen G, Pejtersen J., Tirkkonen T, Tahtinen M. and Dickson D. (1996) European data base on indoor air pollution sources in buildings principles of the protocol for testing of building materials. Proceedings of Indoor Air 96, Nagoya, Japan, Vol. 3, 83-88. 

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