Indoor ozone removal and deposition using unactivated solid and liquid coffee.

Autor: Jiang EY; Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.; High Speed 3D Printing Research Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan., Wen TY; Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.; High Speed 3D Printing Research Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2022 Aug 16; Vol. 17 (8), pp. e0273188. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 16 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273188
Abstrakt: Managing indoor ozone levels is important because ozone is a hazardous pollutant that has adverse effects on human health. Coffee is a popular daily beverage, and thus, coffee beans and spent coffee grounds are common in many places such as offices, homes, aircraft, cafeterias, and such. The most common material used to remove ozone is activated carbon which can be made from coffee beans or spent coffee grounds with proper activation processes. This paper presents a novel idea: to remove ozone at the level of an indoor environment using unactivated coffee products. This paper examines the ozone removal efficiency and the ozone deposition velocity at 130 ppb ozone for two types of coffee: solid coffee (powder) and liquid coffee (beverage). The activated carbon, the deionized water, and the seawater are also included for comparison and validation purposes. The tests show that the fine coffee powder has a removal efficiency of 58.5% and a deposition velocity of 0.62 cm/s. The liquid coffee has a removal efficiency of 34.4% and a deposition velocity of 0.23 cm/s. The chemical inspections indicate that the oxidation reactions with the carbohydrates in solid coffee and the metal/mineral elements in liquid coffee are responsible for ozone removal. These results have confirmed that ozone removal via coffee is effective, controlling indoor air quality by coffee products is thus becoming possible.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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