J 2020

Emerging investigator series: air conditioning filters as a sampler for semi-volatile organic compounds in indoor and near-building air

JÍLKOVÁ, Simona Rozárka; Lisa Emily MELYMUK a Jana KLÁNOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Emerging investigator series: air conditioning filters as a sampler for semi-volatile organic compounds in indoor and near-building air

Vydání

Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, Cambridge, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020, 2050-7887

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10511 Environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.238

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114763

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

EID Scopus

Klíčová slova anglicky

Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers; Hexabromocyclododecane; Tribromodiphenyl Ether 28

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 3. 6. 2025 20:45, Mgr. Michaela Hylsová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Organic compounds like flame retardants (FRs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are consistently found in both indoor and outdoor environments. There are many possible matrices for measurement of these compounds (e.g. indoor dust, air - passive and active air samples), but all methods have limitations, like the heterogeneous distribution of indoor dust, or noisy active air samplers. We used filters from building-wide heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) units to evaluate levels of PAHs, PCBs, OCPs and NFRs in indoor and outdoor environments, and to evaluate whether this method is feasible for screening semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in indoor and near-building outdoor environments. Detectable levels of FRs, PCBs, OCPs and PAHs were found, demonstrating that HVAC filters do collect SVOCs, with generally higher levels of PAHs in the incoming air filters and higher levels of PCBs, OCPs and FRs in the outgoing air filters. Levels of FRs, PCBs and OCPs in outgoing air were comparable to those measured using conventional active air sampling in the same building. The advantages of using HVAC filters are (1) integrated and homogeneous samples, as the whole building is sampled over typically a long timescale (months), and (2) samples are easy and cheap to collect and do not require prior deployment of samplers. The key disadvantage is that HVAC filters are not designed for analytical chemistry and thus the filter materials can have variable or unknown gas sorption and particle capture, and can have strong matrix effects during analysis.

Návaznosti

GA19-20479S, projekt VaV
Název: Prach jako významný zdroj expozice člověka endokrinním disruptorům ve vnitřním protředí
Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Prach v prostředí jako důležitá expoziční cesta člověka působení endokrinních disruptorů
90121, velká výzkumná infrastruktura
Název: RECETOX RI