Finding F-1587

“Mitigation tests were conducted running air cleaners with activated carbon and opening windows to promote indoor−outdoor air exchange, with both methods showing a decrease greater than 50% for average VOC levels indoors while active.”

Volatile Organic Compounds Inside Homes Impacted by Smoke from the Marshall Fire Published as part of ACS ES&T Air special issue “Wildland Fires: Emissions, Chemistry, Contamination, (2025). ACS EST Air. Page 1. CKB 1135

Structure

Source: Wildfire smoke
Factor: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
Intervention: Air purifiers
Setting: home, US
Study design: field measurement campaign in homes affected by a wildland-urban interface fire: volatile organic compounds measured indoors by proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry over the weeks following the fire, with mitigation tests using activated-carbon air cleaners and window opening (class 4)
Effect: other 50
Caveat: a lower bound, since the study reports a decrease greater than this share, and the two methods tested were activated-carbon air cleaners and opening the windows

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