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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 867-879Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s40201-021-00653-6
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Indoor aerosol sources; aerosol concentration; Aerosol hazard; Fine particle; Ultrafine particle; Toxic and radiological hazards
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By investigating six different aerosol sources, it was found that the use of household aerosol sources significantly increases aerosol particle concentrations, with ultrafine particles dominating the mass distribution. The size and attachment rate of aerosol particles vary across different aerosol sources.
In this work, six different aerosol sources, used in everyday life, were investigated to analyze parameters such as concentration, size distributions, and dynamics: regular and electronic cigarettes, incense, candles, mosquito coils, and cooking. During the experiments, the aerosol particle count ranged from 200 to 2 center dot 10(5) cm(-3). The number, mass, and specific surface area of the aerosol size distributions were measured by a Model 2702 M diffusion aerosol spectrometer (DAS) with a range of 5 nm to 10 mu m. The attachment rate of radon decay products to aerosol particles is calculated depending on their size distribution/ The use of household sources of aerosols (heat treatment of food, smoking, candles, etc.) result in an increase in the concentration of aerosol particles by more than an order of magnitude, mainly due to the generation of ultrafine aerosols with number median diameter 64-92 nm and GSD 1.45-1.84. The mass distribution is dominated by particles with a distribution maximum in the range of 2-5 mu m. The attachment of radon decay products to aerosols is associated with ultrafine particles with diameter < 200 nm. The median diameter of the rate of attachment to aerosols is 130 nm.
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