Non-Woven Textiles in the Indoor Environment

Abstract

The chapter presents the basic metrics of the indoor environment that are used to assess the quality of living and working, together with the risk factors and pollutants indoors. From this point of view the non-woven textiles are presented and discussed. Different groups of non-woven materials are considered: floor coverings, wallcoverings, upholstery and furniture textiles, filters of the HVAC systems, etc. Their particular application on the indoor environment is presented and their effect on the metrics of the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is analyzed.

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“…The main objective of the study is to provide a better way to improve indoor environmental quality and thermal comfort with the help of AI methods where thermal comfort level and IEQ are measured for each hospital and identify the low performing hospitals along with suggestions for improving their IEQ and thermal comfort conditions. (Abbaszadeh et al, 2006;Angelova, 2016;Asadi et al, 2017) where many factors affect indoor environment quality such as comfortable indoor temperature, air quality, acoustic quality, smell quality and visual comfort). Indoor environmental quality is a relative measure of the comfort perception of people exposed to indoor conditions) (Piasecki et al, 2017).…”

“…Studies indicate a direct relationship between certain concentrations of air pollutants with indoor health problems, such as: allergies, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, lung cancer, etc. [(Deloach, 2004), (Craig, 2003), ( Health Canada Modern approaches to managing indoor air problems have been outlined in numerous publications, with some examples including the World Health Organization's air quality guidelines, Health Canada's exposure guidelines for residential air quality in residential buildings, the US National Standards Institute, and the American Society of Health , The indoor environment consists of five main factors: thermal comfort, indoor air quality, acoustic control, odor control, and visual comfort (Abbaszadeh et al, 2006;Angelova, 2016;Asadi et al, 2017). These factors are cumulative in nature and interrelated in their function, temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide and number of occupants significantly affecting the indoor air quality of a healthcare facility (Beggs et al, 2015;Wan et al, 2011).…”