TY - RPRT A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Rockstroh, Jens A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Noske, Reinhard A1 - Brödner, Doris A1 - Schneider, Uwe A1 - Horn, Wolfgang T1 - Development of a Test Method for and Investigation into Limiting the Emissions from Printers and Copiers within the Framework of Assigning the Environmental Label (Research Report 201 95 311/02 / UBA-FB 00,510E) N2 - Kurzfassung An neun verschiedenen Hardcopygeräten wurden in unterschiedlichen Emissionsmesskammern (zwei verschiedene 1 m³ - Kammern und eine 20 m³ - Kammer) in Kombination mit geeigneten Probenahme- und Analysenverfahren Untersuchungen zum Emissionsverhalten dieser Geräte hinsichtlich Staub, Ozon und VOC (TVOC) durchgeführt. Luftprobenahme und Analytik erfolgten für VOC mittels Tenax TA und anschließender Thermodesorption (TDS) in Verbindung mit GC / MS. Ozon wurde kontinuierlich bestimmt. Der Ozonanalysator arbeitete auf der Grundlage der flammenlosen Reaktion von Ozon mit Ethylen nach dem Prinzip der Chemilumineszenz. Die Staubbestimmung erfolgte gravimetrisch mittels Glasfaserfilter und Ultramikrowaage. Zusätzlich wurde die Partikelemission während des Druckbetriebes mit einem Partikelzähler bestimmt. Aufgrund der technischen Rahmenbedingungen standen nur kurze Druckzeiten von maximal 36 Minuten zur Verfügung. Um die Gleichgewichtskonzentration in der Prüfkammer zu erreichen, wurde die Luftaustauschrate in den 1 m³ - Kammern auf n = 4,0 bis 4,7 pro Stunde erhöht. Zusätzlich zur Prüfung in den Emissionsmesskammern sind verschiedene Papiere mittels Direkt - TDS sowie unter- schiedliche Toner mittels Headspaceprobenahme in Kombination mit GC / MS hinsichtlich ihres Emissionsverhaltens untersucht worden. Für die untersuchten Geräte wurden Emissionsraten ermittelt. Sie betrugen für TVOC 0,41 bis 22,4 mg pro Stück und Stunde, für Ozon kleiner 0,02 bis 4,6 mg pro Stück und Stunde sowie für Staub 0,10 bis 7,63 mg pro Stück und Stunde. Verglichen mit Frischfaserpapier wurden bei den Untersuchungen mit Recyclingpapier deutlich höhere SVOC - Konzentrationen nachgewiesen. Im Ergebnis der Untersuchungen wurde ein Prüfverfahren entwickelt, das die Basis für Emissionsmessungen im Rahmen der Umweltzeichen RAL –UZ 62, RAL –UZ 85 sowie des neuen RAL –UZ 114 für Multifunktionsgeräte darstellt. Abstract The emission behaviour with regard to dust, ozone and VOC (TVOC) of nine different hardcopy devices in combination with suitable air sampling and analysis procedures was investigated in different emission test chambers (two different 1 m³ - chambers and one 20 m³ - chamber). Air sampling and analysis for VOC were done by means of Tenax TA and subsequent thermal desorption (TDS) in connection with GC / MS. Ozone was determined continuously. The ozone analyser worked on the basis of the flame rid reaction of ozone with ethylene according to the principle of chemiluminescence. The dust determination was done gravimetrically by means of glass fibre filter and an ultra micro - balance. Additional the particle emission during the printing process was measured with a particle counter. The general technical conditions of the tested hardcopy devices were the reason for short printing times with a maximum of 36 minutes. In order to achieve the equilibrium concentration in the test chambers the air exchange rate in the 1 m³ - test chambers had to be increased to a value of n = 4,0 to 4,7 per hour. Additional to the examination of the hardcopy devices in the emission test chambers different papers were investi- gated by means of direct - TDS and different toners were tested by means of head space sampling in combination with GC / MS. For the examined hardcopy devices emission rates were determined. The emission rates for TVOC ranged from 0,41 to 22,4 mg per piece and hour, for ozone from less than 0,02 to 4,6 mg per piece and hour and for dust from 0,10 to 7,63 mg per piece and hour. The comparison between recycling paper and paper produced from primary fibres showed in general higher SVOC emissions from recycling paper. As the result of the investigations a test method for the determination of emissions from hardcopy devices was developed. This test method is the basis for emission tests in the framework of the German Award of the Environmental Label for office devices RAL -UZ 62, RAL -UZ 85 and the new RAL -UZ 114 for multifunctional devices. KW - Emissions KW - VOC KW - Ozone KW - Dust KW - Hardcopy device KW - Printers KW - Copiers KW - Emission test chamber KW - Environmental label PY - 2003 UR - http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/development-of-a-test-method-for-an-investigation SN - 1862-4804 SN - 0722-186X IS - 88 SP - 1 EP - 159 PB - Umweltbundesamt CY - Dessau-Roßlau AN - OPUS4-7277 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Kalus, Sabine A1 - Jann, Oliver T1 - Different possibilities for the statistical evaluation of round robin tests for volatile organic compounds in emission test chambers T2 - Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International conference CY - Brisbane, Australia DA - 2012-07-08 KW - Reference material KW - Round robin test KW - Emission test chamber KW - VOC-emission KW - Product emission testing PY - 2012 SN - 978-1-921897-40-5 SP - 1 EP - 2 (8B.6) AN - OPUS4-27526 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Kasche, J. A1 - Bitter, F. A1 - Müller, D. A1 - Müller, B. T1 - Environmental and Health Provisions for Building Products - Identification and evaluation of VOC emissions and odour exposure (Research Report 202 62 320 / UBA-FB 001002) N2 - In this study 50 construction products were tested in emission test chambers according to the requirements of the AgBB-scheme: 7 acrylic and 6 silicone sealants, 6 paste-like synthetic resin plasters, 13 wood based products, 4 adhesives, 5 lacquers, 6 wall paints and 3 further construction products. VOC and odour emissions were tested on the 1st, 3rd, 10th, and 28th day. In addition to the VOC-measurements, a test procedure was developed to evaluate odour emission of construction products.This test is planned to be implemented into the AgBB-Scheme. A direct evaluation by a sensory panel in the emission test chamber was not possible. So the odour samples were collected in 300- litre tedlar bags which were evaluated later. Odour intensity of the samples was compared with different acetone concentrations. Within this study an interlaboratory comparison was conducted using the newly developed odour test method. Additionally, VVOC emissions, detection of carcinogenic compounds, repeatability of emission test chamber tests, and other issues are presented. This project has shown that construction products can be evaluated in accordance with the AgBB scheme. A sensory evaluation is intended to be introduced in the AgBB scheme. A method for this evaluation is described in this study. The test procedure should be enhanced and validated for practical utilisation. KW - Building products KW - Emissions KW - Odour KW - AgBB-Scheme KW - Chamber tests KW - Interlaboratory study KW - Construction products KW - Emission test chamber KW - Odour evaluation KW - VOC KW - VVOC KW - SVOC KW - Thermal desorption KW - GC/MS KW - GC-ODP KW - Odour standard of comparison KW - Gas sensor KW - Acrylic and silicone sealant KW - Wood-based product KW - Paints KW - Lacquers KW - Interlaboratory comparison PY - 2007 UR - http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/environmental-health-provisions-for-building SN - 1862-4804 SN - 0722-186X IS - 21 SP - 1 EP - 381 PB - Umweltbundesamt CY - Dessau-Roßlau AN - OPUS4-15931 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Kalus, Sabine A1 - Brödner, Doris A1 - Juritsch, Elevtheria A1 - Süßmilch, C. A1 - Kirchner, D. T1 - European interlaboratory study for sampling VOC emissions - Step 2 - Sampling with Tenax tubes at an emission test chamber T2 - Indoor Air 2008, August 17-22, 2008 CY - Copenhagen, Denmark DA - 2008-08-17 KW - VOC KW - Tenax thermal desorption KW - Emission test chamber KW - Proficiency testing KW - Interlaboratory study PY - 2008 IS - Paper ID: 238 SP - 1 AN - OPUS4-17864 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Kalus, Sabine A1 - Brödner, Doris A1 - Juritsch, Elevtheria A1 - Till, Carola A1 - Kirchner, D. T1 - European interlaboratory study for sampling VOC emissions - Step 3 - Emission test chamber measurements T2 - Healthy buildings 2009 - 9th International conference & exhibition CY - Syracuse, NY, USA DA - 2009-09-13 KW - VOC emission KW - Emission test chamber KW - Round robin test KW - Construction products KW - Tenax thermal desorption PY - 2009 IS - Paper 343 SP - 1 EP - 4 CY - Syracuse, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-20093 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mull, Birte A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Jann, Oliver T1 - Investigations on the emissions of biocides and PCBs under low volume conditions N2 - The aim of this study was the development of a low volume air sampling strategy for biocides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) at low air change rates in modern, air-tight showcases as they are present in museums. Lindane, pentachlorophenol, dichlofluanid, tolyfluanid, isodrin, p,p-dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane and permethrin were the biocides and PCB 28 and PCB 153 were the PCBs studied, all of which are semi volatile organic compounds (SVOC). Their occurrences in the museum environment originate from various sources e.g. preventive treatment of organic exhibits or organic building materials. Exhibits are long-term exposed to these pollutants due to storing in showcases or other storage equipment at low air change rates. To achieve air sampling under the aforementioned conditions the influences of temperature, air circulation, air change rate and relative humidity on the emission behavior of the selected biocides and PCBs had to be determined. This was carried out with pre-soaked wood samples in low volume air sampling experiments using 27 L test showcases and 23 L and 24 L emission test chambers and also diffusive sampling with glass as the sampling material. KW - SVOC KW - Emission test chamber KW - Showcase KW - SDVB-polymer PY - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.06.021 SN - 0045-6535 SN - 0366-7111 VL - 118 SP - 65 EP - 71 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Kidlington, Oxford AN - OPUS4-32140 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nohr, Michael A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Richter, Matthias A1 - Lorenz, W. T1 - Development of a multi-VOC reference material for quality assurance in materials emission testing N2 - Emission test chamber measurement is necessary to proof building materials as sources of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The results of such measurements are used to evaluate materials and label them according to their potential to emit harmful substances, polluting indoor air. If only labelled materials were installed indoors, this would improve indoor air quality and prevent negative impacts on human health. Because of the complex testing procedure, reference materials for the quality assurance are mandatory. Currently, there is a lack of such materials because most building products show a broad variation of emissions even within one batch. A previous study indicates lacquers, mixed with volatile organic pollutants, as reproducible emission source for a wide range of substances. In the present study, the curing of the lacquer-VOC mixture inside micro-chambers was optimised. Therefore, the humidity and the chamber flow were varied. Typical indoor air pollutants with a wide range of volatilities, for example, styrene, n-hexadecane, dimethyl and dibutyl phthalate were selected. It turned out that, under optimised curing parameters inside the micro-chamber, their emission can be reproduced with variations of less than 10 %. With this, a next important step towards a reference material for emission testing was achieved. KW - Reference material KW - Emission KW - Emission test chamber KW - Micro-chamber KW - VOC PY - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-014-8387-2 SN - 1618-2642 SN - 1618-2650 VL - 407 IS - 11 SP - 3231 EP - 3237 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-32404 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Horn, Wolfgang T1 - Possible reference materials for proficiency tests for emission chamber tests N2 - Emission testing of products is currently a rapidly increasing field of measurement activity. Labelling procedures for construction products are based on such emission test chamber measurements and hence measurement performance should be verified. A suited procedure for this purpose is the testing of one unique homogenous material in different laboratories within a Round Robin Test (RRT). Therefore, it is useful to have a reference material which can be used within inter-laboratory studies or as part of the quality management system to ensure comparable results. Several approaches on the development of reproducibly emitting materials have been published. These have in common only to emit a single VOC – toluene. Two further research studies carried out by BAM aimed to develop reference material for emissions testing containing one or more VOC in a single material. The first approach was a doped lacquer with Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC/SVOC) and the second was Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) or a Squalane/Paraffin mixture. Results received with the lacquer based material were presented in more detail. T2 - Airmon: 9th International Symposium on Modern Principles of Air Monitoring and Biomonitoring CY - Dresden, Germany DA - 11.06.2017 KW - Emission test chamber KW - QA/QC KW - Reference material KW - Round robin test KW - VOC PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-41936 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Schultealbart, Caroline T1 - Reference materials for round robin tests for emission test chambers – a review N2 - Since some volatile organic compounds (VOC) are dangerous to human health whilst others cause harm to the environment by influencing the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere, the overall aim of the KEY-VOCs project is to improve the measurement infrastructure for Key Volatile Organic Compounds in indoor and outdoor air. This is done by providing traceable and comparable reference gas standards and by validating new measurement systems in support to the air monitoring networks. T2 - Metrologie for indoor air quality CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 29.06.2017 KW - Emission test chamber KW - QA/QC KW - Reference material KW - Round robin test KW - VOC PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-41938 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Mull, Birte A1 - Richter, Matthias A1 - Brödner, Doris T1 - Design of Reference Materials for Proficiency Tests for Measurements in Emission Test Chambers T1 - Entwicklung von Referenzmaterialien für Leistungstests bei Emissionskammermessungen N2 - Emission testing of products is currently a rapidly increasing field of measurement activity. Labelling procedures for construction products are based on such emission test chamber measurements and hence measurement performance should be verified. A suited procedure for this purpose is the testing of one unique homogenous material in different laboratories within a Round Robin Test (RRT). Therefore, it is useful to have a reference material which can be used within inter-laboratory studies or as part of the quality management system to ensure comparable results. Any commercially available product on the market can be used as reference material, provided it is thoroughly characterised. However, these materials often emit only a few and material specific VOCs and appropriate homogeneity is not given. Therefore, alternative materials should be found. Several approaches on the development of reproducibly emitting materials have been published. These have in common only to emit a single VOC – toluene. Two further research studies carried out by BAM aimed to develop reference material for emissions testing containing one or more VOC in a single material. The first approach was a doped lacquer with Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC/SVOC) and the second was Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) or a Squalane/Paraffin mixture. Currently, the second approach is not at a level that it could be tested within a RRT. Important requirements for the production of a reference material were repeatability (homogeneity), reproducibility, long-term stability in terms of compound release and transport stability. The emission rates should be high enough to obtain well measurable chamber air concentrations at standardised test conditions. The lacquer samples were prepared by weighing portions of a water-based lacquer to which defined amounts of the pure analytes were added. Defined amounts of the lacquer mixture were filled into Petri dishes and cured under standard conditions (23 °C and 50% relative humidity). Reproducible emissions were obtained when the storage time of the cured material was not longer than four weeks. The concentrations were analyzed 7 days after loading of the material into the chamber. Two RRT were conducted by use of the lacquer system. Here, the laboratories had to identify and also to quantify the compounds. The relative standard deviations obtained were typical for such a kind of test. More than 50 participants reported results. N2 - Die Untersuchung von Produkten auf deren Emissionseigenschaften ist ein aktuell wachsender Aufgabenbereich für Messinstitute. Label werden für Bauprodukte auf Basis von Emissionskammermessungen vergeben, weshalb die dabei eingesetzten Messmethoden überprüft werden sollten. Ein Ringversuch (RV), bei dem ein homogenes Material von verschiedenen Laboratorien parallel untersucht wird, ist ein geeignetes Verfahren dafür. Für einen solchen Ringversuch aber auch generell für die laborinterne Qualitätssicherung ist es sehr hilfreich ein Referenzmaterial zu haben, um gut vergleichbare Ergebnisse zu erhalten. Generell kann jedes kommerziell erhältliche Produkt als Referenzmaterial verwendet werden, wenn es gut charakterisiert ist. Allerdings emittieren die meisten Produkte nur wenige VOC und diese sind typischerweise sehr materialspezifisch. Die Homogenität der Materialien ist nicht immer gegeben, so ist es besser, nach alternativen Materialien zu suchen. Es sind schon einige Veröffentlichungen zu reproduzierbar emittierenden Materialien verfügbar. Diese enthalten bislang zumeist nur ein einzelnes VOC – Toluol. Im Rahmen von zwei Forschungsvorhaben arbeitet die BAM an der Entwicklung von Referenzmaterialien für Emissionskammer-Untersuchungen, die einzelne VOC oder VOC-Mischungen emittieren. Der erste Ansatz war die Dotierung eines kommerziellen Lackes mit einer VOC/SVOC-Mischung, weitere Untersuchungen werden mit Thermo¬plastischem Polyurethan (TPU) sowie einer Squalan/Paraffin-Mischung durchgeführt. Da mit dem zweiten Ansatz noch Tests laufen, ist damit noch kein RV durchgeführt worden. Wichtige Anforderungen an ein Referenzmaterial sind die Wiederholbarkeit (Homogenität), Reprodu-zierbarkeit und Langzeitstabilität in Bezug auf die VOC-Abgabe und die Transportstabilität. Die Emissionsraten sollten hoch genug sein, um gut messbare Kammerluft-Konzentrationen bei Standardbedingungen zu erhalten. In einen wasserbasierten Lack wurde eine VOC/SVOC-Mischung zugegeben und nach der Durchmischung wurden davon einzelne Portionen in Petrischalen abgefüllt. Diese Schalen wurden unter Standardbedingungen (23 °C und 50% relative Luftfeuchtigkeit) getrocknet. Reproduzierbare Emissionen wurden erhalten, wenn die Lagerzeit ca. vier Wochen nicht überschritten wurde. Die Konzentrationen wurden sieben Tage nach der Beladung der Kammer bestimmt. Zwei RV wurden mit einem wie oben beschriebenen Lacksystem durchgeführt. Es nahmen ca. 50 Labore teil, diese mussten die Zielsubstanzen sowohl identifizieren als auch quantifizieren. Die gefundenen Mittelwerte und Standardabweichungen lagen jeweils im zu erwartenden Bereich für solch einen RV. T2 - Odour and Emission of Plastic Materials CY - Kassel, Germany DA - 21.03.2017 KW - Ringversuch KW - Round robin test KW - Emissionskammer KW - Emission test chamber KW - Referenzmaterial KW - Reference material PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-40299 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -