title: Emission of air pollutants from burning candles with different composition in indoor environments.
abstract: Candle composition is expected to influence the air pollutants emissions, possibly leading to important differences in the emissions of volatile organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. In this regard, the purity of the raw materials and additives used can play a key role. Consequently, in this work emission factors for some polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic species, short-chain aldehydes and particulate matter have been determined for container candles constituted by different paraffin waxes burning in a test chamber. It has been found that wax quality strongly influences the air pollutant emissions. These results could be used, at least at a first glance, to foresee the expected pollutant concentration in a given indoor environment with respect to health safety standards, while the test chamber used for performing the reported results could be useful to estimate the emission factors of any other candle in an easy-to-build standardised environment.
authors: Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica "G. Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milano, Italy.
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Derudi
authors: Simone
authors: S
authors: Gelosa
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Sliepcevich
authors: Andrea
authors: A
authors: Cattaneo
authors: Domenico
authors: D
authors: Cavallo
authors: Renato
authors: R
authors: Rota
authors: Giuseppe
authors: G
authors: Nano
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis*; D005390:Fires; D010232:Paraffin / Q000737:chemistry; D052638:Particulate Matter / Q000032:analysis; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000032:analysis; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D052638:Particulate Matter; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds; D010232:Paraffin