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Militello-Hourigan, Ryan Edward.

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The Impacts of Cooking and an Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Colorado Passive and Tightly Constructed Homes.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Impacts of Cooking and an Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Colorado Passive and Tightly Constructed Homes./
Author:	Militello-Hourigan, Ryan Edward.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	48 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-06(E).
Subject:	Mechanical engineering. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10809722
ISBN:	9780438045507

The Impacts of Cooking and an Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Colorado Passive and Tightly Constructed Homes.
Militello-Hourigan, Ryan Edward.

The Impacts of Cooking and an Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Colorado Passive and Tightly Constructed Homes. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 48 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2018.

Low-energy home design is becoming more common in new and retrofitted homes, and energy-efficient designs often sell at a premium. This perceived and realized value of reducing energy use in homes is important as the need to reduce fossil fuel use becomes increasingly critical. Energy efficiency measures, like tightening the envelope of a home saves energy, but can impact the indoor air quality. We monitored the indoor air quality of nine tightly constructed homes, one tightly constructed public library, and one conventionally constructed home, and performed a repeatable cooking activity to observe the impact and response to the resulting fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions. We compared the PM2.5 concentrations from the cooking activity while operating the mechanical ventilation systems at default rates (~0.1--0.3 h--1) and in a temporary boost mode (~0.3--0.8 h--1). We also measured the concentrations of total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs), formaldehyde, radon, and bedroom carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Results show that fine particulate matter concentrations are generally low indoors, but a cooking event drastically increases concentrations and levels are slow to decay. Median time above 35 microg/m3 after cooking was 4.7 hours. Overall, there was not a significant difference between operating the ventilators at standard rates and utilizing the temporary boost. Completely-mixed flow reactor models of select tested homes show that installing and using a directly-exhausting range hood could reduce peak PM 2.5 concentrations by 75% or more. Current ventilation practices in these buildings may not be adequate for these common polluting events. TVOC concentrations were generally low with a median average of 459 microg/m 3. Formaldehyde was above the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) chronic limit of 9 microg/m3 across all tight buildings with a median value of 30 microg/m3. Carbon dioxide levels in bedrooms were high at night (> 1000 ppm) in six of the homes, indicating that current bedroom ventilation practices are not consistent nor adequate. Bedroom air exchange rates (AER) determined from carbon dioxide decay ranged from 0.08 to 0.30 h--1 with a median value of 0.12 h--1.

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Mechanical engineering.

The Impacts of Cooking and an Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Colorado Passive and Tightly Constructed Homes.
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