Impacts of Cleaning on Indoor Air Quality: Regular versus 'Green' Cleaning Products

Ellen Harding-Smith; Catherine O'Leary; Marvin Shaw; Nicola Carslaw; Helen Davies; Terry Dillon; Archit Mehra; Gavin Phillips; Benjamin Jones; Lei Ye

Impacts of Cleaning on Indoor Air Quality: Regular versus 'Green' Cleaning Products

Ellen Harding-Smith^*, Catherine O'Leary, Marvin Shaw, Nicola Carslaw, Helen Davies, Terry Dillon, Archit Mehra, Gavin Phillips, Benjamin Jones, Lei Ye

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Abstract

Emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC) were measured from commercially available regular and green household cleaning products by dynamic headspace selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS). The calculated emission rates were then used to simulate cleaning activities using the INdoor CHEMical model (INCHEM-Py). Results showed perturbation of oxidant and radical concentrations (86-96% O3, 98-100% OH depletion), and an increase in formaldehyde concentrations following cleaning. Terpene emissions from cleaning products can influence the indoor air chemistry and resulting secondary pollutant formation. The regular and green cleaning products were both large sources of monoterpenes, and use of either perturbs indoor air quality.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022 - Kuopio, Finland Duration: 12 Jun 2022 → 16 Jun 2022

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Conference	17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Kuopio
Period	12/06/22 → 16/06/22

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Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge EPSRC who funded this work EP/T014474/1.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Cleaning products
Emissions
indoor air chemistry
Indoor Air Model
VOC

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Impacts of Cleaning on Indoor Air Quality: Regular versus 'Green' Cleaning Products

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