| Title: | Emission of air pollutants from burning candles with different composition in indoor environments |
| Author(s): | Derudi M; Gelosa S; Sliepcevich A; Cattaneo A; Cavallo D; Rota R; Nano G; |
| Address: | "Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica 'G. Natta', Politecnico di Milano, Via Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milano, Italy" |
| Journal Title: | Environ Sci Pollut Res Int |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11356-013-2394-2 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1614-7499 (Electronic) 0944-1344 (Linking) |
| 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" |
| Keywords: | "Air Pollutants/*analysis Air Pollution, Indoor/*analysis Fires Paraffin/chemistry Particulate Matter/analysis Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineDerudi, Marco Gelosa, Simone Sliepcevich, Andrea Cattaneo, Andrea Cavallo, Domenico Rota, Renato Nano, Giuseppe eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Germany 2013/12/10 Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2014 Mar; 21(6):4320-30. doi: 10.1007/s11356-013-2394-2. Epub 2013 Dec 7" |
