- Ozone addition to fresh smoke did not change the particle composition or sized distribution significantly indoors.
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- Aged smoke was smoke that sat in chamber for a couple hours prior to injection into the house.
- Ozone in addition to aged smoke shows change in particle chemical concentrations over time.
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- Evidence of SOA formation over time indoors with the aged smoke. New particle counts after ozone injection. Behaving similarly to outside smoke airplane measurements.
Why was there nucleation instead of condensation onto surfaces?
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- During wildfire events unique chemistry can happen indoors impacting human health.
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- How to improve indoor air cleaner 1- Keep it dry 2- Source control 3- Ventilation 4- Air cleaning
- Filtration (air cleaning) has the shortest history. Only 50-100 years use in buildings. 1/
- ASHRAE standard 52.2 for filtration is only 23 years old.
- Measured CO2 and PM2.5 decay in a classroom that was supposed to be operated at 6 air changes per hour with ventilation and filtration. But it was actually at ~2 air change per hour.
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- Why does filtration fail to meet goals?
- Issue #1. Air has to get to the filter. For central heating homes the recirculating rate can range from 2-8 when the fan is on. BUT the fan can often only 20% of the time, with HUGE variation on the run time.
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- Indoor dust can be resuspended by human activity. Dust can be use as a tracer to determine the presence/absence of RNA (i.e. SARS-COV2).
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- Deployed indoor air cleaners in homes/classroom where people who COVID positive.
- In home cleaners placed in isolation room, outside and in the main living area. After 1-2 weeks dust was removed from filters => extracted => qPCR analysis.
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- Cool mist humidifiers were often used in homes/isolation rooms which greater decrease the flow rates of the air cleaners.
- Isolation rooms in homes had higher copy numbers.
- SARS-COV2 was detected in 2/7 deployed filters in classrooms/lunchrooms.
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