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Indoor Air

Title:		Measurement of diffusion coefficients of VOCs for building materials: review and development of a calculation procedure
Author(s):		Haghighat F; Lee CS; Ghaly WS;
Address:		"Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. haghi@cbs-engr.concordia.ca"
Journal Title:		Indoor Air
Year:		2002
Volume:		12
Issue:		2
Page Number:		81 - 91
DOI:		10.1034/j.1600-0668.2002.1e008.x
ISSN/ISBN:		0905-6947 (Print) 0905-6947 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The measurement and prediction of building material emission rates have been the subject of intensive research over the past decade, resulting in the development of advanced sensory and chemical analysis measurement techniques as well as the development of analytical and numerical models. One of the important input parameters for these models is the diffusion coefficient. Several experimental techniques have been applied to estimate the diffusion coefficient. An extensive literature review of the techniques used to measure this coefficient was carried out, for building materials exposed to volatile organic compounds (VOC). This paper reviews these techniques; it also analyses the results and discusses the possible causes of difference in the reported data. It was noted that the discrepancy between the different results was mainly because of the assumptions made in and the techniques used to analyze the data. For a given technique, the results show that there can be a difference of up to 700% in the reported data. Moreover, the paper proposes what is referred to as the mass exchanger method, to calculate diffusion coefficients considering both diffusion and convection. The results obtained by this mass exchanger method were compared with those obtained by the existing method considering only diffusion. It was demonstrated that, for porous materials, the convection resistance could not be ignored when compared with the diffusion resistance"
Keywords:		"Air Pollution, Indoor/*analysis Chemical Phenomena Chemistry, Physical *Construction Materials Diffusion Forecasting Humans *Models, Theoretical Organic Chemicals/*analysis Reproducibility of Results Volatilization;"
Notes:		"MedlineHaghighat, F Lee, C S Ghaly, W S eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review England 2002/09/10 Indoor Air. 2002 Jun; 12(2):81-91. doi: 10.1034/j.1600-0668.2002.1e008.x"