Emission rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human beings: breath, skin and whole body characterizations

Nijing Wang; Lisa Ernle; Gabriel Bekö; Pawel Wargocki; Jonathan Williams

Emission rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human beings: breath, skin and whole body characterizations

Nijing Wang^*, Lisa Ernle, Gabriel Bekö, Pawel Wargocki, Jonathan Williams

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Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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Human beings are a potent mobile source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the indoor environment. Several hundred VOCs are known to enter the air via breath and dermal emission (de Lacy Costello et al. 2014). Certain VOC species react rapidly with oxidants present in ambient air (e.g. ozone or OH radicals), producing multiple secondary VOCs, some of which have adverse effects on human health (Wolkoff et. al. 2013). VOC concentrations associated with human emissions have been reported from various indoor environments using online and offline techniques (Stönner et.
al., 2018, He et. al. 2019). However, a comprehensive chemical characterization of human emission rates as a function of ozone is lacking. This study is a part of the Indoor Chemical Human Emissions and Reactivity (ICHEAR) project, which attempts to quantify the emission rates of human VOCs from breath, skin and whole body under controlled conditions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2020) : Proceedings of a meeting held 1 November 2020, Online.
Publisher	International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
Publication date	2020
Pages	2454-2455
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7138-2360-5
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate - Online Duration: 1 Nov 2020 → 4 Nov 2020 Conference number: 16

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Conference	16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate
Number	16
Location	Online
Period	01/11/2020 → 04/11/2020

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Indoor air chemistry
Human emission
Ozone
PTR-MS

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Wang, N., Ernle, L., Bekö, G., Wargocki, P., & Williams, J. (2020). Emission rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human beings: breath, skin and whole body characterizations. In 16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2020) : Proceedings of a meeting held 1 November 2020, Online. (pp. 2454-2455). International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate.

Wang, Nijing ; Ernle, Lisa ; Bekö, Gabriel et al. / Emission rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human beings: breath, skin and whole body characterizations. 16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2020) : Proceedings of a meeting held 1 November 2020, Online. . International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, 2020. pp. 2454-2455

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Wang, N, Ernle, L, Bekö, G , Wargocki, P & Williams, J 2020, Emission rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human beings: breath, skin and whole body characterizations. in 16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2020) : Proceedings of a meeting held 1 November 2020, Online. . International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, pp. 2454-2455, 16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate , 01/11/2020.

Emission rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human beings: breath, skin and whole body characterizations. / Wang, Nijing; Ernle, Lisa; Bekö, Gabriel et al.
16th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (INDOOR AIR 2020) : Proceedings of a meeting held 1 November 2020, Online. . International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, 2020. p. 2454-2455.

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Emission rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from human beings: breath, skin and whole body characterizations

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