Journal
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107451
Keywords
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs); Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs); Measurement; Temperature; Pre-assessment; Indoor and vehicular air quality (IVAQ)
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52178062]
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This article reviews the methods for measuring key parameters of VOCs/SVOCs in indoor and vehicular environments, analyzes the pros and cons of various methods, and discusses the impacts of multiple factors on emission behaviors. Additionally, a pre-assessment approach using key parameters for predicting VOC/SVOC concentrations or human exposure levels during the design stage is introduced.
The emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) from indoor building and vehicle cabin materials can adversely affect human health. Many mechanistic models to predict the VOC/SVOC emission characteristics have been proposed. Nowadays, the main obstacle to accurate model prediction is the availability and reliability of the physical parameters used in the model, such as the initial emittable concentration, the diffusion coefficient, the partition coefficient, and the gas-phase SVOC concentration adjacent to the material surface. The purpose of this work is to review the existing methods for measuring the key parameters of VOCs/SVOCs from materials in both indoor and vehicular environments. The pros and cons of these methods are analyzed, and the available datasets found in the literature are summarized. Some methods can determine one single key parameter, while other methods can determine two or three key parameters simultaneously. The impacts of multiple factors (temperature, relative humidity, loading ratio, and air change rate) on VOC/SVOC emission behaviors are discussed. The existing measurement methods span very large spatial and time scales: the spatial scale varies from micro to macro dimensions; and the time scale in chamber tests varies from several hours to one month for VOCs, and may even span years for SVOCs. Based on the key parameters, a pre-assessment approach for indoor and vehicular air quality is introduced in this review. The approach uses the key parameters for different material combinations to pre-assess the VOC/SVOC concentrations or human exposure levels during the design stage of buildings or vehicles, which can assist designers to select appropriate materials and achieve effective source control.
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