| Title |
Measurement and Evaluation of Indoor Air Quality in Small-scale apartments in Daegu |
| Authors |
Park, Hyun-Sik ; Kim, Hyun-Tae ; Hong, Won-Hwa |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_SC.2019.35.10.217 |
| Keywords |
Indoor Air Quality; Small-scale apartment; Volatile Organic Compounds |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to measure the indoor air quality of small-scale apartments and then proposed a method to improve the
indoor air quality of the small-scale apartments by comparing with the result of indoor air quality in the Clean-Healthy House. In case of
formaldehyde, a highly volatile organic compound, the concentrations of indoor measured both in small-scale apartments and the Clean
Healthy houses did not exceed- the guideline of Korea. The guideline of Korea for acetaldehyde was not available, so the guidelines of
Japan and the World Health Organization were used to measure the concentration of acetaldehyde. The study results demonstrated that three
out of seven small-scale apartments investigated exceeded the guideline of Japan; and the preliminary research on the Clean-Health Houses
was low at about 30-60% of the guideline of Japan. The result of the VOCs measurement showed that toluene, ethylbenzene, and styrene in
some small-scale apartments exceeded the guideline of Korea. However, the Clean-Healthy Houses in the previous studies did not exceed the
guideline of Korea with regard to all the pollutants. Therefore, this study suggests the application of the construction standards of the
Clean-Healthy house in order to improve the indoor air quality of small-scale apartments. In addition, the current study anticipates that
improvement of the indoor air quality in the residential environments should be universally applied, not limited to the type and size of the
residence. |