Indoor Air Quality
Particle Concentrations Inside a Tavern Before and After Prohibition of Smoking: Evaluating the Performance of an Indoor...
Article presenting airborne particle data measuring in a tavern before and after a smoking ban and characterization of levels using a mass balance model
A Brownian Motion Model of Pollutant Concentration Distributions
Stanford report on dispersion of indoor pollutants by diffusion processes
A Time Series Model for Cigarette Smoking Activity Patterns: Model Validation for Carbon Monoxide and Respirable Suspended...
A mass balance model is developed for describing pollutants generated by smoking activity and it is tested in a controlled chamber and with a real smoker in a car.
Mathematical Models for Predicting Indoor Air Quality from Smoking Activity
Article describing a mathematical model that can be used to predict concentrations of indoor air pollutants arising from the smoking of cigarettes or other tobacco products
USEPA Multichamber Concentration and Exposure Model (MCCEM)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency model for predicting indoor air quality and exposure in multi-zone residential locations. Contains embedded empirical data inputs on air flows between rooms.
Center for Energy and Environment: Air Flow in Multifamily Buildings
A study of multifamily buildings that produced valuable data on inter-unit air flows. From the website: "This project included in-depth owner interviews, a survey of a large sample of renters, legal research and measurements of the movement of PFTs and SHS tracers between units in apartment buildings before and after air sealing and ventilation treatments. The project produced some of the most extensive multiple fan measurements of inter-apartment air leakage and multiple tracer gas measurements of inter-apartment air transfer. It also developed a new metric of 'effective contaminant transfer' which is used to define the magnitude of the transfer of a contaminant source to the monitored location."
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Indoor Environment Department
The Indoor Environment Department (IED) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) in Berkeley, CA (USA) is a world class research group in indoor air pollution, pollutant dynamics, pollutant dispersion, ventilation, and air flow modeling. One of the lab's main goals is "...understanding human exposures to environmental pollutants found in indoor and outdoor air." Many of the IED's publications are available for download
The MIAQ Software Project
Introduction
MIAQ is a Multi-chamber Indoor Air Quality model orginally authored by William W. Nazaroff as part of his Ph.D. disseration research in the Environmental Engineering Science Department at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
The current maintainer of MIAQ is Dr. Neil E. Klepeis.
Indoor Air Quality Project
Please visit the IAQ Summary Page for a list of the aims, investigators, and materials associated with the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) hosted project.
The IAQ project hosted here investigates a wide variety of factors that impact the concentrations of air pollution that can occur in typical indoor environments. These factors include building construction, mass emission rates of different sources, ventilation rates, particle deposition rates, chemical reaction rates (including surface interaction), and indoor-outdoor particle penetration rates.
Multi-Chamber Indoor Air Quality Model (MIAQ)
Research software for predicting the time-evolution of gaseous and particulate air pollutants in an arbitrary number of connected zones. Accounts for emissions, ventilation, deposition, coagulation, and chemical reactivity.
