Indoor climate in interior Alaska: simultaneous measurement of ventilation, benzene and toluene in residential indoor air of two homes

Isbell, Maggie; Stolzberg, Richard J.; Duffy, Lawrence K.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.11.016

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“…Over the last 25 years, health complaints related to poor indoor air quality have dramatically increased [1]. Therefore, indoor air pollution has become a major public health concern.…”

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confidence: 99%

Toluene photocatalytic oxidation at ppbv levels: Kinetic investigation and carbon balance determination

Debono

Thévenet

Gravejat

et al. 2011

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

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“…Over the last 25 years, health complaints related to poor indoor air quality have dramatically increased [1]. Therefore, indoor air pollution has become a major public health concern.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toluene photocatalytic oxidation at ppbv levels: Kinetic investigation and carbon balance determination

Debono

Thévenet

Gravejat

et al. 2011

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

112

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“…VOCs contribute to the generation of photochemical smog and to certain health diseases like nausea and skin irritation. Some are associated with high cancer risk [15,16]. Conventional methods for VOCs removal are thermal oxidation, condensation, absorption and biofiltration.…”

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Pollutant Degradation in Gas Streams by means of Non-Thermal Plasmas

Schiorlin¹,

Paradisi²,

Brandenburg³

et al. 2015

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“…The large emission of these compounds in the atmosphere contributes mainly to the production of photochemical smog and to certain health problems like nausea, skin irritation and risk of cancer [1,2]. The removal of dilute VOCs from air is still one of the main tasks of health and environment protection.…”

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Studies on the Electrical Behaviour and Removal of Toluene with a Dielectric Barrier Discharge

2014

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This contribution attempts to establish an easyto-apply non-thermal plasma reactor for efficient toluene removal. Derived from the already established knowledge of the so called Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) Stack Reactor a new model reactor was used in this work. The DBD Stack Reactor is a multi-elements reactor but in this work only one stack element was used to investigate the efficiency and efficacy of toluene removal. In case of reliable results the scalability process for industrial application is already well known. Therefore, laboratory experiments were conducted in dry and wet synthetic air with an admixture of 50 ppm toluene. Along with the toluene removal process the electrical behaviour of the discharge configuration was investigated. It was found that the electrical capacitance of the dielectric barrier changes with variations of the operating voltage. This could be due to the changes in the area of the dielectric barrier which is covered with plasma. Additionally, it was found that the power input into the plasma, at a fixed operating voltage, is proportional to the frequency, which is in agreement with the literature.Regarding the decomposition process, the total removal of toluene was achieved at specific input energy densities of 55 J L -1 under dry conditions and 110 J L -1 under wet conditions. The toluene removal was accompanied by the production of nitric acid (dry conditions) and formic acid (wet conditions). The latter suggested a combination of the plasma reactor with a water scrubber as an approach for total removal of pollutant molecules.

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Indoor climate in interior Alaska: simultaneous measurement of ventilation, benzene and toluene in residential indoor air of two homes

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Toluene photocatalytic oxidation at ppbv levels: Kinetic investigation and carbon balance determination

Toluene photocatalytic oxidation at ppbv levels: Kinetic investigation and carbon balance determination

Pollutant Degradation in Gas Streams by means of Non-Thermal Plasmas

Studies on the Electrical Behaviour and Removal of Toluene with a Dielectric Barrier Discharge

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