Indoor Environment: Airborne Particles and Settled Dust, ISBN-13: 978-3527305254
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- 467 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-VCH; 1 edition (December 19, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9783527305254
- ISBN-13: 978-3527305254
Covering the fundamentals of air-borne particles and settled dust in the indoor environment, this handy reference investigates:
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relevant definitions and terminology
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characteristics
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sources
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sampling techniques and instrumentation
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exposure assessment
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monitoring methods
The result is a useful and comprehensive overview for chemists, physicists and biologists, postgraduate students, medical practitioners, occupational health professionals, building owners and managers, building, construction and air-conditioning engineers, architects, environmental lawyers, government and regulatory professionals.
Table of contents
Fundamentals of Indoor Particles and Settled Dust
SAMPLING AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
Introduction to Sampling and Measurement Techniques
Measurement of Airborne Particles
Sampling of Surface Dust in Buildings
Analysis of Chemical and Biological Properties
APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES
Organic and Inorganic Compounds Adsorbed on Particles and Settled House Dust
Indoor Chemistry as a Source of Particles
Particle Concentration Levels and Size Distribution Characteristics in the Residential and non-Industrial Workplace Environments
Asbestos and Mineral Fibers
Environmental Tobacco Smoke Particles
The Effect of Filtration, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems
Motor vehicle Emissions as a Source of Indoor Particles
Modeling of Indoor Particle Concentration
The Phenomenon of “Black Magic Dust” in Housing Units
EXPOSURE AND RISK ASSESSMENT
Assessment of Exposure to Airborne Particles
Health Effects and SBS Due to Dust and Particle Exposure in climate chambers
Reference Values of Environmental Pollutants in House Dust
Review
“This book will be mainly of interest to research scientists,…,it should be easily intelligible to air conditioning engineers, and to architects interested in environmental design who have mastered the principles of the physical and biological sciences.”
Henry J. Cowan, University of Sydney, Australia
Architectural Science Review
“In conclusion, this is an excellent account and is the first such book to appear dealing with particles in indoor air.”
Applied Organometallic Chemistry,
Vol.19, No.1, January 2005
About the Author
Professor Morawska is a physicists and received her doctorate at the Jagiellonian University, Poland for research on radon and its progeny. Prior to joining QUT she spent several years in Canada conducting research first at McMaster University in Hamilton and later at the University of Toronto. Lidia Morawska is an author of a large number of papers and book chapter. She has also been involved at the executive level with a number of relevant national and international professional bodies and has been acting as an adviser to the World Health Organization. She is currently the President of the International Society of the Indoor Air Quality and Climate.Tunga Salthammer holds a diploma degree in chemistry (1986) and PhD in Physical Chemistry (1990) from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. In 1989 he conducted research at the Physics Department of Strathclyde University in Glasgow, UK. He joined the Fraunhofer-Institute for Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institute (WKI) in 1990, where he currently serves as Head of the Department “Chemical Technology and Environmental Research”. In 2003 he joined the University of Applied Sciences Branschweig-Wolfenbüttel as a Professor for Indoor Hygiene. He has been elected to the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences (IAIAS), and is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Indoor Air”. His research interests include analytical chemistry, VOC/SVOC emission studies on indoor materials using test chambers and cells, chemical reactions in the indoor environment (Indoor chemistry), airborne particles and settled dust.
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