INDOOR AIR POLLUTION 

Speaker: TOM WARBURTON 

Chair(S): Oscar Martínez-Alvarado & Katie Read

wednesday MARCH 20, 2024, 13:00

ABSTRACT

VOCs are known to be emitted from multiple sources indoors, including from product use, furnishings, materials such as paints and sealants, and cooking. While outdoor air pollution has become better understood and more tightly legislated in recent years, indoor air pollution remains understudied in comparison. This is of great importance as indoor VOC concentrations have been seen to be up to 100x higher when compared against outdoor VOC concentrations.[1] Through two multi-faceted projects in real homes and testing facilities in both Ashford, UK and Bradford, UK, working with Givaudan Ltd. and through the INGENIOUS project, we have now built several large data sets which give a deep insight into population exposure to indoor VOCs. This will aid in broadening the understanding of not only the activities and products which emit VOCs into indoor air, but also mitigating methods to lower indoor VOC exposure.

[1] - Heeley-Hill, A.C., Grange, S.K., Ward, M.W., Lewis, A.C., Owen, N., Jordan, C., Hodgson, G., and Adamson, G., 2021. Frequency of use of household products containing VOCs and indoor atmospheric concentrations in homes. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 23 (5), 699–713.

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