| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Application of chemical mass balance modeling to indoor VOCs (PDF, 592 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Won, D. Y.1; Search for: Shaw, C. Y.1; Search for: Biesenthal, T. A.1; Search for: Lusztyk, E.1; Search for: Magee, R. J.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | Indoor Air 2002, The 9th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate: 30 June 2002, Monterey, CA., U.S.A. |
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| Subject | source apportionment, chemical mass balance, VOCs, indoor air, building materials; Volatile organic compounds |
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| Abstract | There have been several studies to measure the concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) indoors and to characterize their sources. However, the two tasks have often been done separately, and few attempts have been made to provide a direct link between the sources and the measured VOCs. Chemical mass balance (CMB) modeling was applied to the measurements of 24 VOCs in a newly constructed house. The results of CMB modeling show that wall adhesive, caulking, I-beam joist, and particleboard are the dominant sources. An attempt was also made to estimate the source contributions using mathematical transportmodeling. Good agreement was obtained between the two results. The CMB model is shown to have good potential for identifying the dominant sources and helping develop control strategies for indoor VOCs. However, more research is needed for the collinearity problem associated with source signatures. |
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| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 45333
NRCC 14298 |
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| NPARC number | 20378837 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | 5196dc96-c13c-4c71-86fe-06e759c6640f |
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| Record created | 2012-07-24 |
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| Record modified | 2020-03-30 |
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