Research Article | OPEN ACCESS
Cause Analysis and Countermeasures of Overproof Formaldehyde of Housing Decoration
1Wenhua Tang and 2Lianhong Yu
1School of Environmental Engineering
2Community Health Service Station, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2013 9:1593-1597
Received: November 09, 2012 | Accepted: January 17, 2013 | Published: July 15, 2013
Abstract
In order to understand the level of indoor formaldehyde pollution of newly decorated houses in Wuhan city and preliminarily discuss indoor formaldehyde pollution factors, chose several new residential areas in Wuhan city, 100 houses which are from these residential districts and were decorated not more than 1 year were randomly selected to be measured indoor air formaldehyde content by portable formaldehyde meter and in the meantime, the questionnaire was carried out about formaldehyde concentration influence factors from residents living in those houses. The results show that 26 households reach the standard, 74 households are not up to the standard, including 24 suites of high or more pollution. Analyzed cause of excessive formaldehyde, the conclusion is that among the quality and quantity of decorative materials, the quality and quantity of buying or making furniture, wall treatment mode, decoration complexity level and vacant housing ventilation time, any of these factors are likely to cause high levels of formaldehyde, only each factor is controlled within reasonable limits, formaldehyde may be standard. According to many residents' certain error in decoration housing, some reasonable proposals are given for housing decoration and several effective measures are proposed to control and curb or prevent indoor formaldehyde pollution.
Keywords:
Formaldehyde detection, formaldehyde harm, formaldehyde pollution prevention, formaldehyde source, housing decoration, indoor air pollution,
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The authors have no competing interests.
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