| Keywords |
Wood-based panel; VOC; Small chamber method; Indoor air quality |
| Abstract |
As individuals spend more time indoor in a modern society, the interest on the indoor air quality has been increasing intensely. There are pollutants that affect the indoor air quality, such as air inflow from outside, construction materials, furniture, and so on. It has been divided into two categories, unsurfaced treated and surface treated to analyze the amount of pollutants released from wood based panels. VOCs emitted from wood based panels were analyzed by GC/MS. The amount of TVOC that is released from unsurfaced treated wood based panels ranges 0.078~0.315mg/m2·h, and for the toluene ranges 0.000~0.003mg/m2·h. Surface treated wood based panels release 0.041~1.785mg/m2·h of TVOC and 0.000~0.048mg/m2·h of toluene. Unsurfaced treated wood based panels and Surface treated wood based panels release 0.002~0.196mg/m2·h and 0.004~0.275mg/m2·h of natural VOC(NVOC) respectively. |