The surface emissions trap: A new approach in indoor air purification.

Summary, in English

A new device for stopping or reducing potentially irritating or harmful emissions from surfaces indoors is described. The device is a surface emissions trap prototype and consists of an adsorbent sheet with a semipermeable barrier surrounded by two thin nonwoven layers. The trap may be applied directly at the source of the emissions e.g. at moisture-affected floors and walls, surfaces contaminated by chemical spills etc. This results in an immediate stop or reduction of the emitting pollutants. The trap has a very low water vapor resistance thus allowing drying of wet surfaces. In laboratory experiments typically 98% reduction of air concentrations of volatile organic compounds and a virtually total reduction of mold particle-associated mycotoxins was observed. The surface emissions trap may represent a convenient and efficient way of restoring indoor environments polluted by microbial and other moisture-associated emissions.

• Author: Pawel Markowicz; Lennart Larsson
• Department/s: Division of Medical Microbiology
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 290-294
• Publication/Series: Journal of Microbiological Methods
• Volume: 91
• Issue: 2
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22974692?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2012.08.019
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Microbiology in the medical area
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1872-8359