Introduction to indoor air quality
Environmental Science: Atmospheres, 2023 Editors-in-Chief Neil Donahue and Kristopher McNeill, and Daniel Korbel and Hannah Macdonald from the RSC's Policy and Evidence team, introduce the themed issue on indoor air quality.
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Dynamic Performance Analysis for an Absorption Chiller under Different Working Conditions
Applied Sciences, 2017 Due to the merits of energy saving and environmental protection, the absorption chiller (AC) has attracted a lot of attention, and previous studies only concentrated on the dynamic response of the AC under a single working condition. However, the working
Jian Wang +5 more
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A Modified Surgical Face Mask to Improve Protection and Wearing Comfort
Buildings, 2022 Wearing face masks is essential for reducing infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, ordinary surgical face masks can provide only moderate protection.
Tengfei (Tim) Zhang +2 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 An elevator shaft provides passage for air exchange across floors and thus imposes infectious disease transmission risk. The moving elevator car generates positive air pressure in the shaft section to which the car approaches, while negative air pressure
Tengfei (Tim) Zhang +2 more
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Outdoor-indoor air pollution in urban environment: challenges and opportunity [PDF]
, 2015 With the continual improvement in our quality of life, indoor air quality has become an important area of concern in the twenty-first century. Indoor air quality is affected by many factors including the type and running conditions of indoor pollution ...
Leung, DYC
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Review of Parameters Measured to Characterize Classrooms’ Indoor Environmental Quality
Buildings, 2023 As attention to indoor environmental quality (IEQ) grows, a systematic strategy for assessing IEQ in schools needs to be developed. For this purpose, this paper presents a summary of parameters measured in school classrooms to characterize the quality of
Minh Tien Tran +7 more
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Indoor Air Quality Assessment: Comparison of Ventilation Scenarios for Retrofitting Classrooms in a Hot Climate [PDF]
, 2019 Current energy e ciency policies in buildings foster the promotion of energy retrofitting of the existing stock. In southern Spain, the most extensive public sector is that of educational buildings, which is especially subject to significant internal ...
Calama-González, Carmen María +2 more
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Studies of Subjective Sleep Thermal Comfort and Adaptive Behaviors in Chinese Residential Buildings in Nine Cities [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Sleep thermal comfort greatly impacts the quality of sleep. For residents from different climate regions, their level of sleep thermal comfort may have a large difference due to the variations in climate, and other adaptive factors such as the changes in
Hong Weiping +3 more
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Health effects of home energy efficiency interventions in England: a modelling study [PDF]
, 2015 Objective: To assess potential public health impacts of changes to indoor air quality and temperature due to energy efficiency retrofits in English dwellings to meet 2030 carbon reduction targets. Design: Health impact modelling study.
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A method for evaluating indoor phthalate exposure levels in collected dust
MethodsX, 2021 This paper provides a method for evaluating indoor phthalate exposure levels in collected dust, including dust collection, chemical analysis and quality control.
Yuxuan Zhao +4 more
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