Near Real-Time Monitoring of Formaldehyde in a Low-Energy School Building

Autor: Céline Liaud, Pierre Bernhardt, Claire Trocquet, Isabelle Malandain, Maud Guglielmino, Stéphane Le Calvé, Stéphanette Englaro
Přispěvatelé: In’Air Solutions [Strasbourg, France], Institut de chimie et procédés pour l'énergie, l'environnement et la santé (ICPEES), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Matériaux et nanosciences d'Alsace (FMNGE), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MERMAID (ADEME), ANR-11-ECOT-0013,CAPFEIN,réseau de CAPteurs de FormaldEhyde intelligents pour la surveillance de l'air INtérieur(2011)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Atmosphere
Atmosphere, MDPI 2019, 10, ⟨10.3390/atmos10120763⟩
Volume 10
Issue 12
ISSN: 2073-4433
Popis: The emergence of new super-insulated buildings to reduce energy consumption places the quality of indoor air at the center of the debate. Among the indoor air pollutants, aldehydes are often present, and formaldehyde is of major interest regarding its multiple sources and its health impact. Therefore, French regulations expect to reduce formaldehyde concentrations below 10 &mu
g m&minus
3 in public buildings by 2023. Formaldehyde and other aldehydes were measured for two weeks during an intensive field campaign conducted in a school recently built and equipped with programmable dual-flow ventilation. Aldehydes were monitored with the ISO 16000-3 reference method based on sampling with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) tubes while formaldehyde concentration was continuously measured by using a sensitive near real-time formaldehyde microanalyzer with a detection limit of 1 µ
3. Formaldehyde was the major aldehyde. Its concentrations varied in the range of 2&ndash
25 µ
3 and decreased by half when mechanical ventilation was ON, while the other ones were always below 5 µ
3. In addition, an excellent agreement was observed between the different analytical techniques deployed to quantify formaldehyde levels. The microanalyzer was able to measure fast variations of formaldehyde concentration in the studied room, according to the building's ventilation periods.
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