Actions for Using spacecraft trace contaminant control systems to cure sick building syndrome
Using spacecraft trace contaminant control systems to cure sick building syndrome
- Author
- Graf, John C.
- Published
- Feb 1, 1994.
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- 1 electronic document
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- Many residential and commercial buildings with centralized, recirculating, heating ventilation and air conditioning systems suffer from 'Sick Building Syndrome.' Ventilation rates are reduced to save energy costs, synthetic building materials off-gas contaminants, and unsafe levels of volatile organic compounds (VOC's) accumulate. These unsafe levels of contaminants can cause irritation of eyes and throat, fatigue and dizziness to building occupants. Increased ventilation, the primary method of treating Sick Building Syndrome is expensive (due to increased energy costs) and recently, the effectiveness of increased ventilation has been questioned. On spacecraft venting is not allowed, so the primary methods of air quality control are; source control, active filtering, and destruction of VOC's. Four non-venting contaminant removal technologies; strict material selection to provide source control, ambient temperature catalytic oxidation, photocatalytic oxidation, and uptake by higher plants, may have potential application for indoor air quality control.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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- Document ID: 19940025965.
Accession ID: 94N30470.
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