Reference values for indoor air pollutant concentrations in new, residential buildings in Finland

Järnström, Helena; Saarela, Kristina; Kalliokoski, Pentti; Pasanen, Anna‐Liisa

doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.06.021

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“…The concentrations of all pollutants tend to be lower in summer, with exception of formaldehyde, which shows a concentration increase; this behaviour was already described in other studies [7].…”

Section: Btex and Formaldehydesupporting

confidence: 50%

Air pollution and child respiratory diseases: the Viseu case study, Portugal

Borrego¹,

Lopes²,

Valente³

et al. 2007

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 101

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An urban area of inland Portugal, without severe air pollution problems as yet, was selected for this work, based on the fact that future development could lead to air quality degradation. To evaluate the influence of air pollution on 6 to 10 years old asthmatic children, environment and medical parameters were monitored. Children were selected based on the school health questionnaire validated and widely applied by the ISAAC project (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) and submitted to medical tests at the hospital. At the same time, several field campaigns were realised to characterize the outdoor and indoor air quality of the study area in different seasons (winter and summer time). Measured parameters included meteorological data and ambient air concentrations of ozone (O 3 ), nitrogen oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), carbon monoxide (CO), sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene (BTEX), measured continuously (3 mobile labs) and using diffusive tubes (indoor and outdoor), and also particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5 ), using high volume and low volume samplers. Preliminary results have shown that, although the study area has no air pollution problems as yet, high levels of some pollutants, like particulate matter, could be registered, especially at night. To understand the influence of dispersion conditions on air quality, mesoscale and local scale models were applied and validated with field campaign data.

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Section: Btex and Formaldehydesupporting

confidence: 50%

Air pollution and child respiratory diseases: the Viseu case study, Portugal

Borrego¹,

Lopes²,

Valente³

et al. 2007

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 101

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“…However, few studies have dealt only with a combination of monoterpenes in indoor environments [2]. The main studied monoterpenes are α-pinene, β-pinene, ∆ 3 -carene and d-limonene because they are frequently included in VOC mixtures [6,[24][25][26][27]. This paper presents the development and the validation of a TD-GC-MS method for the determination of monoterpenes in the indoor environment applied to timber frame constructions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Development and validation by accuracy profile of a method for the analysis of monoterpenes in indoor air by active sampling and thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Marlet

Lognay

2010

Talanta

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The technique of thermal desorption (TD)-GC/MS was evaluated for the measurement of monoterpenes in indoor air. The validation strategy was intentionally oriented towards routine use and the reliability of the method rather than extreme performance. For this reason, validation by accuracy profile was chosen. The accuracy profile procedure, which is based on the concept of total error (bias + standard deviation), guarantees that a known proportion of future results obtained with the method will be within acceptance limits. For all the compounds tested in the present study, α-pinene, α-terpineol, β-pinene, d-limonene, ∆ 3 -carene, camphene, 1,8-cineole, p-cymene, linalool, but not in the case of carvone, the accuracy profile procedure established that at least 95% of the future results obtained would be within the ±15% acceptance limits of the validated method over the whole defined concentration range. Other parameters, such as selectivity, recovery, repeatability, stability of the molecules of interest and the effect of temperature, were also determined. The performance of the described method was finally evaluated by the analysis of indoor air from new timber frame constructions.

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“…On the other hand this concentration is less than the annual mean concentration (Arithmetic mean) 247 µg/m 3 recorded by Järnström in Finland (55) ; 0.1 -99.3 µg/m 3 reported by Kim (16) ; 143 µg/m 3 measured by Langer and Bekö in Sweden (56) ; 138 µg/m 3 measured by Rehwagen in Germany (57) ; 202 µg/m 3 recorded by Raw in England (measured in bedrooms) (58) ; 0.2-159 µg/m 3 measured by Sinha (59) ; 123 µg/m 3 average concentration for 53 VOCs recorded by Jia in southeast Michigan, USA (25) and 2-137 µg/m 3 recorded by Hamidin in residential indoor air of Brisbane, Australia (22) . Figure 5 showed seasonal variation of the mean concentrations of total volatile organic compounds.…”

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confidence: 87%

VOCs Levels in Indoor and Outdoor Residential Homes in Helwan, Egypt

2015

Egypt. J. Chem.

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Reference values for indoor air pollutant concentrations in new, residential buildings in Finland

Cited by 131 publications

References 23 publications

Air pollution and child respiratory diseases: the Viseu case study, Portugal

Air pollution and child respiratory diseases: the Viseu case study, Portugal

Development and validation by accuracy profile of a method for the analysis of monoterpenes in indoor air by active sampling and thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

VOCs Levels in Indoor and Outdoor Residential Homes in Helwan, Egypt

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