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Main Title Correction for Nonuniform Mixing in Indoor Microenvironments.
Author Mage, D. T. ; Ott, W. R. ;
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Lab. ;World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland).
Publisher 1994
Year Published 1994
Report Number EPA/600/A-94/196;
Stock Number PB95-122677
Additional Subjects Indoor air pollution ; Mixing ; Air pollution sampling ; Pollution sources ; Concentration(Composition) ; Air flow ; Spatial distribution ; Volume ; Mass ;
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NTIS  PB95-122677 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The modeling of the indoor concentration distribution produced by sources and sinks of pollutants is complicated by nonuniform mixing within the indoor settings. Two common approaches to predicting the concentration distribution are to either treat the indoor volume as containing multiple compartments with uniform mixing within each, or to treat the entire indoor volume as a single uniformly mixed compartment with an empirical mixing factor m that is introduced to correct for nonuniform mixing. We review the literature on m and show that this empirical approach violates a basic principle of conservation of mass. We propose a new conceptual model for the case of a source of pollution in an indoor setting.