Behaviour of individual VOCs in indoor environments: How ventilation affects emission from materials

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This study used chamber experiments and mass-transfer analysis to examine how air exchange rate and air speed affect individual VOC emissions from particleboard. Increasing air exchange raised the measured formaldehyde emission rate, while air speed did not measurably affect the monitored VOCs; the compound-specific behaviour was consistent with the estimated partitioning and diffusion parameters. FLEC enters the paper only through cited earlier studies of FLEC flow and formaldehyde measurement performance.

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