Journal of Environmental Health Sciences (한국환경보건학회지)

Korean Society of Environmental Health (한국환경보건학회)
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The Characteristic of Volatile Organic Compounds(VOCs) Emission from the Type of Indoor Building Materials as the Temperature and Humidity

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  • Seo, Byeong-Ryang (Green Jeonnam Environmental Complex Center, Suncheon First College) ;
  • Kim, Shin-Do (Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul) ;
  • Park, Seong-Kyu (Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Seoul)
  • 서병량 (순천제일대학 그린전남환경종합센터) ;
  • 김신도 (서울시립대학교 환경공학과) ;
  • 박성규 (서울시립대학교 환경공학과)
  • Published : 2006.08.01
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Abstract

The Volatile Organic Compounds(VOCs) are emitted from various sources and have lots of different form. Recently human are spending the many times at indoor area and indoor air pollution is issued the important social problem. The emission sources of indoor air pollutants are very various, also indoor building materials are composed of very complex chemical compounds, these indoor building materials discharge very much VOCs and other hazardous compounds. In this study, we performed the small chamber test to investigate the VOCs emission concentration and characteristics involving five kinds of the indoor building materials(furniture material, wooden floor, wall paper, paint and tile) under different conditions of four temperature and relative humidity as account of the air flow rate(AFR), air exchange rate(AER), loading factor and air velocity respectively. As the result, It was showed that building materials are emitted the highest VOCs concentration at the beginning of experiment and furniture material is emitted the highest VOCs concentration. Most of the materials were affected by temperature, but paint and tile material were affected by humidity.

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