2013Journal ArticleMethod / modelling

Indoor formaldehyde in real buildings: Emission source identification, overall emission rate estimation, concentration increase and decay patterns

Liang, Weihui · Yang, Xudong

Building and Environment

In: Building and Environment, vol. 69, pp. 114 - 120, 2013, ISSN: 0360-1323.

Editorial summary

The authors present a rapid approach for locating formaldehyde sources in occupied-scale rooms and estimating their combined emission rate. An apartment case study and window-opening tests illustrate source screening and the different time scales of concentration build-up and removal; FLEC is described as part of the underlying source-identification methodology.

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FLEC use

FLEC method, modelling or validation

The article substantively describes FLEC-based local source measurement within its source-identification framework, including a FLEC measurement schematic. The documented apartment measurements themselves used other instruments, so direct author use is not established.

Topics

emission rateFormaldehydeIndoor air quality controlResidential building