A review of portable air cleaner devices: purification processes, performance standards, effectiveness in controlling indoor air pollutants

Effectiveness of Portable Room Air Cleaners for Control of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor Air

IAQ T1S3) Eleven commercially available portable room air cleaners have been tested on a mixture of 16 representative volatile organic compounds (VOC) in a full-scale stainless steel chamber and their initial VOC removal efficiencies have been evaluated. These products use different gas-phase contaminant removal technologies including adsorption, photocatalytic oxidation under UV irradiation (U...

Assessment of exposure to indoor air pollutants.

The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations with primary responsibility for international health matters and public health. Through this Organization, which was created in 1948, the health professions of over 190 countries exchange their knowledge and experience with the aim of making possible the attainment by all citizens of the world of a level of health that ...

Cardiovascular effects of indoor air pollutants

In the last decades, research on the causes of cardiovascular disease has made great progress. Multiple pharmaceutical and surgical approaches have been devised to prevent, treat, or otherwise manage heart disease, yet it remains the leading cause of death both in Europe and United States. There are important gaps in the understanding the leading causes of cardiovascular disease and the underli...

Allergic reactions to indoor air pollutants.

Inhalation of airborne chemicals can result in allergic sensitization with episodic pulmonary responses occurring on subsequent exposures. Responses may occur in the upper respiratory tract (rhinitis), the lower respiratory tract (wheeze, bronchospasm) or systemically, for example, a febrile response. The mechanisms underlying these responses are not always clear but include production of reagi...

National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

Cleaner air in Volgograd.

THE POTENTIAL USE of antibody for diagnostic or therapeutic applications in human cancer may well depend upon the ability to synthesize large quantities of monospecific "anti-tumour" immunoglobulin in vitro. In this respect, the hybridoma technology has produced murine monoclonal antibodies directed against a number of human tumour-associated antigens (Koprowski et al., 1978; Yeh et al., 1979; ...