title: On organic emissions testing from indoor consumer products' use.
abstract: A wide range of consumer and personal care products may, during their use, release significant amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOC) into the air. The identification and quantification of the emissions from such sources is typically performed in emission test chambers. A major question is to what degree the obtained emissions are reproducible and directly applicable to real situations. The present work attempts partly to address this question by comparison of selected VOC emissions in specific consumer products tested in chambers of various dimensions. The measurements were performed in three test chambers of different volumes (0.26-20 m(3)). The analytic performance of the laboratories was rigorously assessed prior to chamber testing. The results show emission variation for major VOC (terpenes); however, it remains in general, within the same order of magnitude for all tests. This variability does not seem to correlate with the chamber volume. It rather depends on the overall testing conditions. The present work is undertaken in the frame of EPHECT European Project.
authors.affiliation: Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Sialvera & Bakola Str., 50100 Kozani, Greece. Electronic address: bartzis@uowm.gr.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bartzis
authors.affiliation: National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkalle 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: pwo@arbejdsmiljoforskning.dk.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wolkoff
authors.affiliation: Environmental Risk and Health Unit, VITO, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium. Electronic address: marianne.stranger@vito.be.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stranger
authors.affiliation: Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Sialvera & Bakola Str., 50100 Kozani, Greece. Electronic address: gefthimiou@uowm.gr.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Efthimiou
authors.affiliation: Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Sialvera & Bakola Str., 50100 Kozani, Greece. Electronic address: etolis@uowm.gr.
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Tolis
authors.affiliation: Environmental Risk and Health Unit, VITO, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium. Electronic address: frederick.maes@vito.be.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maes
authors.affiliation: National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkalle 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: awn@arbejdsmiljoforskning.dk.
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Nørgaard
authors.affiliation: Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: gvs@fe.up.pt.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ventura
authors.affiliation: Environmental Technology Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Sialvera & Bakola Str., 50100 Kozani, Greece. Electronic address: kkalimeri@uowm.gr.
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Kalimeri
authors.affiliation: Environmental Risk and Health Unit, VITO, Boeretang 200, 2400 Mol, Belgium. Electronic address: eddy.goelen@vito.be.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Goelen
authors.affiliation: Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: eof@fe.up.pt.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fernandes
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis*; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D003902:Detergents; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D010476:Perfume; D013729:Terpenes / Q000032:analysis*; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D003902:Detergents; D010476:Perfume; D013729:Terpenes; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds
keywords: Consumer products; Emission comparisons; Indoor air quality; Organic emissions; Test chamber