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Assessment of Selected Interior Flooring Materials on Indoor Air Quality

JUHÁSOVÁ ŠENITKOVÁ, Ingrid and Michal KRAUS

Basic information

Original name

Assessment of Selected Interior Flooring Materials on Indoor Air Quality

Name in Czech

Hodnocení kvality vnitřního prostředí pro vybrané podlahové materiály

Authors

JUHÁSOVÁ ŠENITKOVÁ, Ingrid (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Michal KRAUS (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Volume 161. Netherlands, Procedia Engineering, p. 1527-1531, 6 pp. 2016

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

20101 Civil engineering

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/75081431:_____/16:00000816

Organization unit

Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice

ISSN

Keywords (in Czech)

kvalita vnitřního prostředí; koncentrace TVOCs; přijatelnost vzduchu; intenzita odéru; chemické hodnocení; senzorické hodnocení

Keywords in English

indoor air quality; TVOCs concentration; air acceptability; odor intensity; chemical assessment; sensory assessment

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 6/1/2017 12:26, Ing. Michal Kraus, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Indoor air quality depends on many factors, such as temperature, humidity, odours or presence of pollutants. A lot of materials used in the buildings, either as structural materials or as furnishings, are mostly the indoor air pollution sources. Interior surface materials are generally accepted as the main TVOCs emissions source. The chemical and sensory assessment of selected interior flooring materials on indoor air quality is presented within the paper. Air acceptability, odour intensity and TVOCs concentration for selected interior flooring materials (polyvinyl chloride flooring, tongue flooring and acrylic based flooring) were tested. The chemical and sensory measurements were performed in a glass test chamber. The parameters were monitored by different air change rate per hour. Chemical measurement is based on the absorbed TVOCs gas chromatography analysis. The panellists of sensory assessment consist of group of responsible persons from 20 to 38 years (35% smokers). Each approached subject assesses the odour intensity and the air acceptability. The improving of sensory assessment with increasing the air change rate was not confirmed. Conversely, the unfavourable results are improving with increasing air change rate, in the case of materials with significantly indented and porous surface.