The Indoor Chemical Human Emissions and Reactivity (ICHEAR) project: Overview of experimental methodology and preliminary results

G Bekö, P Wargocki, N Wang, M Li, CJ Weschler… - Indoor …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the gradual reduction of emissions from building products, emissions from human
occupants become more dominant indoors. The impact of human emissions on indoor air …

Emission rates of volatile organic compounds from humans

N Wang, L Ernle, G Beko, P Wargocki… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Human-emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are mainly from breath and the skin. In
this study, we continuously measured VOCs in a stainless-steel environmentally controlled …

[HTML][HTML] Volatile organic compounds emitted by humans indoors–A review on the measurement, test conditions, and analysis techniques

PJ Irga, G Mullen, R Fleck, S Matheson… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The impact of indoor air quality on human health is gaining importance as people spend
90% of their time indoors. It has been established that human occupancy is a significant …

Indoor air quality in domestic environments during periods close to Italian COVID-19 lockdown

MC Pietrogrande, L Casari, G Demaria… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the in situ monitoring of indoor air quality (IAQ) in two dwellings, using
low-cost IAQ sensors to provide high-density temporal and spatial data. IAQ measurements …

Influence of ventilation on formation and growth of 1–20 nm particles via ozone–human chemistry

S Yang, T Müller, N Wang, G Beko… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ozone reaction with human surfaces is an important source of ultrafine particles indoors.
However, 1–20 nm particles generated from ozone–human chemistry, which mark the first …

Human personal air pollution clouds in a naturally ventilated office during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Yang, A Muthalagu, VG Serrano, D Licina - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Personal cloud, termed as the difference in air pollutant concentrations between breathing
zone and room sites, represents the bias in approximating personal inhalation exposure that …

Quantification and source characterization of volatile organic compounds from exercising and application of chlorine‐based cleaning products in a university athletic …

Z Finewax, D Pagonis, MS Claflin, AV Handschy… - Indoor …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Humans spend approximately 90% of their time indoors, impacting their own air quality
through occupancy and activities. Human VOC emissions indoors from exercise are still …

Volatile organic compound emissions from the human body: decoupling and comparison between whole-body skin and breath emissions

Z Zou, X Yang - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The human body can affect indoor air by emitting volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
through breath and skin. However, studies on the quantitative characteristics of skin VOC …

[HTML][HTML] An in situ gas chromatograph with automatic detector switching between PTR-and EI-TOF-MS: isomer-resolved measurements of indoor air

MS Claflin, D Pagonis, Z Finewax… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - amt.copernicus.org
We have developed a field-deployable gas chromatograph (GC) with thermal desorption
preconcentration (TDPC), which is demonstrated here with automatic detector switching …

Bedroom Concentrations and Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds during Sleep

B Molinier, C Arata, EF Katz… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Because humans spend about one-third of their time asleep in their bedrooms and are
themselves emission sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), it is important to …