Establishing the impact of indoor plants within an indoor environment
Air pollution and poor indoor environmental quality is identified as the world”s largest environmental risk.The quality of air in an indoor environment where people spend a large proportion of their lives is paramount for a healthy lifestyle.Human beings spend on average 20 hours per day indoors thus making it imperative in assessing overall comfort.Recent studies have shown the presence of plants have an advantage in an indoor environment by providing physical(improvement or indoor air quality and noise reduction)and psychological benefits.This research investigated the impact of several popular and widely used indoor potted plants on relative humidity,temperature,CO2 and the removal of volatile organic compounds(VOCs).Experiments were carried out in glasshouses,controlled environmental cabinets and offices at the University of Reading Whiteknights campus; to monitor the impact of three different varieties of indoor potted plants on these parameters.All potted plants were reducing CO2 concentration levels in both the cabinets and the offices between 8pm-5am,however by doing so they were increasing relative humidity and temperature.No alarming traces of VOCs were measured in either the cabinets or the offices before the introduction of the plants; however,after the potted plants have been introduced,traces of VOCs such as isobutylene and toluene were found within the test premises of all potted plant species in both the cabinet and offices.Within the office,Ficus ”benjamina” had an increase of 90%in VOC levels when compared to reference data.
Indoor Environmental Quality Potted Plants Relative Humidity temperature carbon dioxide
Vanessa Raposo Emmanuel A.Essah Tijana Blansua
School of Built Environment,University of Reading,Reading,RG6 6AW,UK Royal Horticultural Society,Plant Sciences Department,Garden Wisley,Woking GU23
国内会议
中国环境科学学会室内环境与健康分会第八届学术年会( IEHB 2017)
重庆
英文
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2017-11-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）