Question: II . A A new portable elementary school classroom has raised the concerns of parents about their children's exposures to formaldehyde ( HCHO ) .

II.A A new portable elementary school classroom has raised the concerns of parents about their
children's exposures to formaldehyde (HCHO). You have been hired as a consultant to advise the
school on the significance of the problem. Instead of immediately collecting air samples in the
classroom you decide to visit the room, collect some relatively easy physical measurements, and then
do some quick "back of the envelope" calculations. You determine the following:
The floor area of the classroom is 75m2. The ceiling height is 1.8m.
The classroom contains numerous engineered wood products that emit formaldehyde (HCHO).
You estimate based on a review of the published literature for similar products a collective
HCHO emission rate of 13mghr.
You decide to take some simple carbon dioxide measurements to estimate the air exchange rate
for the classroom. To do this you wait until all students have just left the classroom before
starting measurements. The conditions of the room are assumed to be the same after the children
leave the classroom as when they are in the room, except for the removal of the primary source of
carbon dioxide (the breath of the children). The following carbon dioxide concentrations were
measured at each of the noted times (outdoor CO2=400ppm):
Based on your initial analyses, calculate the concentration of HCHO (in ppb) in classroom air assuming
steady-state conditions, an outdoor HCHO concentration of 0ppb, and classroom air temp of 22C.
II . A A new portable elementary school classroom

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