Indoor air quality impacts of residential mechanical ventilation system retrofits in existing homes in Chicago, IL

I Kang, A McCreery, P Azimi, A Gramigna… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mechanical ventilation systems are used in residences to introduce ventilation air and dilute
indoor-generated pollutants. A variety of ventilation system types can be used in home …

Model framework for predicting semivolatile organic material emissions indoors from organic aerosol measurements: applications to HOMEChem stir-frying

BE Cummings, MA Pothier, EF Katz… - … science & technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cooking activities emit myriad low-volatility, semivolatile, and highly volatile organic
compounds that together form particles that can accumulate to large indoor concentrations …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of PM 2.5 concentrations, transport, and mitigation in indoor environments using low-cost air quality monitors and a portable air cleaner

S Sankhyan, JK Witteman, S Coyan, S Patel… - Environmental …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we deployed multiple low-cost air quality monitors (AQMs) to investigate the
transport of kitchen-generated fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) into the bedrooms of four …

Air Pollution Control Technologies for Indoor Particulate Matter Pollution: A Review

A Kumar, V Malyan, M Sahu - Aerosol Science and Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Indoor air quality is one of the major concerns in the modern environment since urban
residents spend 80–90% of their time staying indoors. Pollutant exposure could be relatively …

Indoor black carbon and brown carbon concentrations from cooking and outdoor penetration: insights from the HOMEChem study

S Sankhyan, S Patel, EF Katz, PF DeCarlo… - … Science: Processes & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Particle emissions from cooking are a major contributor to residential indoor air pollution and
could also contribute to ambient concentrations. An important constituent of these emissions …

Aerosol dynamics modeling of sub-500 nm particles during the HOMEChem study

S Patel, D Rim, S Sankhyan, A Novoselac… - … Science: Processes & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We spend most of our time in built environments. The cumulative exposure to particulate
matter (PM) occurring in these built environments can potentially be comparable to or even …

[HTML][HTML] Decay rates of two tracer gases compared to DNA-tagged liquid aerosol tracer particles: Impact of varying dilution rate and filtration

I Arvelo, F Pagone, J Persky, CE Carpio, P Arnold… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Current gas-and aerosol-based tracers do not adequately simulate the emission and
transport of liquid aerosols containing a pathogen indoors. To evaluate a liquid aerosol …

Molecular composition and gas-particle partitioning of indoor cooking aerosol: Insights from a FIGAERO-CIMS and kinetic aerosol modeling

CG Masoud, Y Li, DS Wang, EF Katz… - Aerosol Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Organic aerosol emitted from cooking is a major concern for indoor air quality. During the
House Observations of Microbial and Environmental Chemistry (HOMEChem) campaign, we …

Determinants of indoor carbonaceous aerosols in homes in the Northeast United States

JR Deslauriers, CA Redlich, CM Kang… - Journal of exposure …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Little is known about sources of residential exposure to carbonaceous aerosols,
which include black carbon (BC), the elemental carbon core of combustion particles, and …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of a modified printed optical particle spectrometer for high-frequency and high-precision laboratory and field measurements

S Kasparoglu, MM Islam, N Meskhidze… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - amt.copernicus.org
The printed optical particle spectrometer (POPS) is a lightweight, low-cost instrument for
measurements of aerosol number concentrations and size distributions. This work reports on …