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Title: Research review: Indoor air quality control techniques

Abstract

Techniques for controlling the concentration of radon, formaldehyde, and combustion products in the indoor air are reviewed. The most effective techniques, which are generally based on limiting or reducing indoor pollutant source strengths, can decrease indoor pollutant concentrations by a factor of 3 to 10. Unless the initial ventilation rate is unusually low, it is difficult to reduce indoor pollutant concentrations more than approximately 50% by increasing the ventilation rate of an entire building. However, the efficiency of indoor pollutant control by ventilation can be enhanced through the use of local exhaust ventilation near concentrated sources of pollutants, by minimizing short circuiting of air from supply to exhaust when pollutant sources are dispersed and, in some situations, by promoting a displacement flow of air and pollutants toward the exhaust. Active air cleaning is also examined briefly. Filtration and electrostatic air cleaning for removal of particles from the indoor air are the most practical and effective currently available techniques of air cleaning. 49 refs., 7 figs.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
6657440
Report Number(s):
LBL-21557; CONF-860446-2
ON: DE87007603; TRN: 87-015065
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Managing indoor air for health and energy conservation, Atlanta, GA, USA, 20 Apr 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; COMBUSTION PRODUCTS; POLLUTION CONTROL; FORMALDEHYDE; RADON; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; VENTILATION; AIR POLLUTION; ALDEHYDES; CONTROL; ELEMENTS; FLUIDS; GASES; NONMETALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; RARE GASES; 500300* - Environment, Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 500200 - Environment, Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 320100 - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Buildings

Citation Formats

Fisk, W J. Research review: Indoor air quality control techniques. United States: N. p., 1986. Web.
Fisk, W J. Research review: Indoor air quality control techniques. United States.
Fisk, W J. 1986. "Research review: Indoor air quality control techniques". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6657440.
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abstractNote = {Techniques for controlling the concentration of radon, formaldehyde, and combustion products in the indoor air are reviewed. The most effective techniques, which are generally based on limiting or reducing indoor pollutant source strengths, can decrease indoor pollutant concentrations by a factor of 3 to 10. Unless the initial ventilation rate is unusually low, it is difficult to reduce indoor pollutant concentrations more than approximately 50% by increasing the ventilation rate of an entire building. However, the efficiency of indoor pollutant control by ventilation can be enhanced through the use of local exhaust ventilation near concentrated sources of pollutants, by minimizing short circuiting of air from supply to exhaust when pollutant sources are dispersed and, in some situations, by promoting a displacement flow of air and pollutants toward the exhaust. Active air cleaning is also examined briefly. Filtration and electrostatic air cleaning for removal of particles from the indoor air are the most practical and effective currently available techniques of air cleaning. 49 refs., 7 figs.},
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year = {Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986},
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