TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wiegner, Katharina T1 - Inter-laboratory study to check the performance ot test chamber measurements for product emission testing N2 - The labelling of construction products or building materials as “low-emitting” is based on measurements using third-party emission test chambers. Unfortunately there is no method to validate the performance of such test chamber measurements. This might give a Variation of results when testing one material at different laboratories. Therefore it is necessary to hold round robin tests as part of the quality management System to ensure comparable results. A research project financed by the Federal Environmental Agency focused on the development of an external quality management System for the detection of relevant Chemical compounds from products and in ambient air. The project was structured in four phases (Horn et al., 2009 and 2011; Wilke et al., 2009a) This paper shows results of the fourth phase of the project, which was an inter-laboratory study for VOC-emission testing by means of emission test chambers. T2 - Indoor Air 2011, 12th International conference on indoor air quality and climate CY - Austin, TX, USA DA - 05.06.2011 KW - Emission test chamber KW - Product emission testing KW - VOC-Emission KW - Round robin test PY - 2011 IS - Paper 768 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-23884 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Scheffer, Harald A1 - Brödner, Doris T1 - VOC-Emissions from Plywood boards N2 - Wood and wood products are often used as construction material for buildings and even more for furniture and indoor decoration. Therefore Chemical emissions from wood have an influence on the indoor air quality. A research project financed by the Federal Environmental Agency focused on VOC emissions from oriented Strand boards (OSB) and also from plywood made from pine and spruce (Wilke et al., 2011a). This paper shows results of the plywood testing because only little information is available about plywood emission behaviour and its impact on indoor air quality. T2 - Indoor Air 2011, 12th International conference on indoor air quality and climate CY - Austin, TX, USA DA - 05.06.2011 KW - VOC-Emission KW - Plywood KW - Terpenes KW - Aldehydes KW - Indoor air quality PY - 2011 IS - Paper 768 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-23885 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Farke, M. A1 - Kalus, Sabine A1 - Horn, Wolfgang T1 - Determination of formic and acetic acids in air N2 - Formic and acetic acids are often responsible for damage of cultural objects, e. g. glass and metal corrosion or changing and fading of colours. Museums all around the world are equipped with different show cases. Display cases should protect cultural objects from dust as well as from mechanical damage. Several construction materials which are used for display cases, including wood, glue and coatings, are possible sources of very volatile organic compounds (VVOCs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and semi volatile organic compounds (SVOCs). These construction products can emit formic and acetic acids into the indoor or display case air. Modern display cases with small air change rates can cause higher concentrations of formic and acetic acids if any source is installed in the display case (Salthammer and Uhde, 2009). To minimize the risk of damage emissions from building products must be quantified. There is a need for a method for identification and quantification of acetic and formic acid. Some possibilities for the identification of acetic acid exist. The quantification of acetic acid for example after sampling on TENAX® or CARBOTRAP and thermal desorption-GC in accordance with ISO 16000-6 and ISO 16017-1 results in very low recovery rates. A new method should be stabile, robust, reproducible and comparable, with an easy local sampling and determination in laboratories. Miniaturised emission test chambers and model display cases were used to study the recovery rates. T2 - Indoor Air 2011, 12th International conference on indoor air quality and climate CY - Austin, TX, USA DA - 05.06.2011 KW - VOCs KW - Detection of formic and acetic acid KW - Quantification of formic and acetic acid KW - Air sampling PY - 2011 IS - Paper 768 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-23876 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Farke, M. A1 - Hahn, Oliver T1 - Assessment of emissions from materials for museum equipment N2 - Museums worldwide are equipped with different display cases. Exhibit display cases should protect cultural objects from dust as well as from mechanical and physical damage. To ensure a stable climate inside the display cases, a low air exchange rate is maintained. Typically air exchange rates are often smaller than 0.1 d'1 (Torge, 2000), which can result in rising concentrations of potential harmful immissions inside of the display cases due to emissions from materials. Especially high concentrations of organic acids, which can emit from e.g. sealing materials, can produce damage of cultural objects, as shown in Figure 1. To minimize such risks emissions must be reduced. T2 - Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International conference CY - Brisbane, Australia DA - 08.07.2012 KW - Assessment of emissions from materials for museum equipment KW - BEMMA display case KW - Protection of cultural object KW - Emissions PY - 2012 SN - 978-1-921897-40-5 SP - 1 EP - 2 (7G.3) AN - OPUS4-27525 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 N2 - Emission testing of products is currently a rapidly increasing field of activity. The amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOC) which emit from products in emission test Chambers are used to evaluate these products. Typically labelling procedures for construction products are based on emission test chamber measurements. This performance should be verified. Possibly this can be performed due to testing of one material at different laboratories within a round robin test. Therefore it is necessary that a reference material exists which can be used for such round robin tests or as part of the quality management System to ensure comparable results. The different Statistical evaluation possibilities of a round robin test with a constant reference material for VOCs (volatile organic compounds) in emission test Chambers are the main focus of the presented paper. T2 - Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International conference CY - Brisbane, Australia DA - 08.07.2012 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 - CONF A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Kalus, Sabine A1 - Till, Carola T1 - Interlaboratory study with Tenax thermal desorption - Phase 1 - liquid samples added onto tenax tubes T2 - Healthy buildings 2009 - 9th International conference & exhibition CY - Syracuse, NY, USA DA - 2009-09-13 KW - ISO 16000-6 KW - Interlaboratory study KW - VOC KW - External quality management system PY - 2009 IS - Paper 355 SP - 1 EP - 2 CY - Syracuse, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-19923 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Brödner, Doris A1 - Scheffer, Harald A1 - Kalus, Sabine A1 - Till, Carola T1 - Study on VOC-Emissions from Oriented Strand Boards (OSB) T2 - Healthy buildings 2009 - 9th International conference & exhibition CY - Syracuse, NY, USA DA - 2009-09-13 KW - Volatile organic compound (VOC) KW - Aldehyde KW - Antioxidant KW - Wood KW - Oriented strand boards (OSB) PY - 2009 IS - Paper 247 SP - 1 EP - 4 CY - Syracuse, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-19928 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Kalus, Sabine A1 - Till, Carola T1 - Interlaboratory study with Tenax thermal desorption - Phase 2 - Tenax tubes spiked by BAM T2 - Healthy buildings 2009 - 9th International conference & exhibition CY - Syracuse, NY, USA DA - 2009-09-13 KW - ISO 16000-6 KW - Interlaboratory study KW - VOC KW - External quality management system PY - 2009 IS - Paper 345 SP - 1 EP - 2 CY - Syracuse, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-20094 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Jann, Oliver A1 - Brödner, Doris A1 - Scheffer, Harald A1 - Kalus, Sabine T1 - Emissionsminderung von Aldehyden durch den Einsatz von Antioxidantien bei der OSB-Plattenherstellung T2 - 8. Holzwerkstoff-Kolloquium - Ressourcenschonender Rohstoffeinsatz und energieeffiziente Technologien CY - Dresden, Deutschland DA - 2009-12-10 KW - OSB KW - VOC KW - Oriented strand board KW - Volatile organic compound KW - Emissionen KW - Reduktion KW - Aldehyde KW - Antioxidantien KW - Holz PY - 2009 SP - 1 EP - 7 AN - OPUS4-20675 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Jann, Oliver T1 - Method validation study for VOC emission measurements N2 - Quality and trueness of results received from measurements are very important for all involved parties, producers and consumers as well; for instance, if the results were used for acceptance of a product within a labeling procedure. Based on an inter-laboratory study with many German, European and US-American laboratories an extemal quality assurance System for the analysis of VOC emitting from products or the measurement in indoor air should be implemented (financed by the German Federal Environmental Agency). A focus was set on the emission test chamber experiments and the connected analytical procedure. VOC have a dominating influence when applying the German AgBB scheme for health evaluation of building products. Therefore it is necessary to ensure that the results between the testing laboratories are comparable. The successful participation to such round robin tests is offen essential for the acceptance of results given by an analytical laboratory. T2 - Indoor Air 2011, 12th International conference on indoor air quality and climate CY - Austin, TX, USA DA - 05.06.2011 KW - Round robin test KW - VOC KW - Construction product KW - Emission PY - 2011 IS - Paper 768 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-23880 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Brödner, Doris A1 - Horn, Wolfgang T1 - Correlation of aldehyde emissions and fatty acids content in pine wood and oriented strand boards N2 - Indoor air quality is important for human health and comfort. To ensure good indoor air quality contamination by volatile organic compounds (VOC) should be minimised. The aim of the project is the reduction of unsaturated aldehydes which can emit from oriented Strand boards (OSB): These aldehydes have an impact on the health based evaluation of emissions from products for indoor use according to the AgBB (Ausschuss zur gesundheitlichen Bewertung von Bauprodukten, Committee for Health Evaluation of Building Products) scheine (AgBB 2010). The model OSB were produced in a pilot plant using well known raw materials (Pinus sylvestris at different trunk heights) under using various processing parameters (Wilke et al. 2011). OSB emit predominantly monoterpenes and aldehydes. Aldehydes are oxidation products of fatty acids in wood. The conditions which affect the oxidation process are the fatty acid concentration and composition, the oxygen content, the sample surface and the presence of compounds which indicate, inhibit or stop the oxidation respectively. The oxidation rate rises with an increasing number of double bounds in the fatty acid, e.g. the oxidation rate between oleic, linoleic and linolenic acid correspond to 1:12:24. One of the most important products of fatty acid oxidation is hexanal. It is generated during the oxidation of linoleic acid. This study shows a direct correlation between aldehyde emission and oxidation, hexanal can be used as an indicator for oxidation. T2 - Indoor Air 2011, 12th International conference on indoor air quality and climate CY - Austin, TX, USA DA - 05.06.2011 KW - VOCs KW - Oxidation products KW - Fatty acid KW - Saturated and unsaturated aldehyde KW - Hexanal PY - 2011 IS - Paper 768 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-23878 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Howard-Reed, C. A1 - Liu, Z. A1 - Cox, S. A1 - Little, J. A1 - Horn, Wolfgang A1 - Wilke, Olaf A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Persily, A. T1 - Inter-laboratory study approach to validate the performance of a prototype reference material for product emissions testing N2 - Product emissions chamber testing involves a complex protocol with several sources of measurement uncertainty (ASTM, 2010; ISO, 2006). Despite the potential for significant variability in measurement results within and among laboratories, there is no Standard method available to assess the accuracy of emissions chamber test results. Recently, Germany’s Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) started a program to evaluate the performance of laboratories testing for the AgBB (German Committee for Health-related Evaluation of Building Products) labelling scheme (Wilke et al., 2009). Test method validation was conducted through interlaboratory studies (ILS) with over 30 participants. Simultaneously, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Virginia Tech (VT) started a program to develop a series of reference materials that mimic real building products, can be tested in typical emissions chambers, and have independently known emission rates (Cox et al., 2010). BAM, NIST and VT subsequently joined forces to conduct a series of inter-laboratory studies using the prototype reference material. A pilot ILS was conducted with BAM and NIST followed by an expanded ILS with several participating countries. Results from these interlaboratory studies have the potential to define an internationally-accepted Standard approach to validate results from product emissions tests. T2 - Indoor Air 2011, 12th International conference on indoor air quality and climate CY - Austin, TX, USA DA - 05.06.2011 KW - Test method validation KW - Volatile organic compounds KW - Product certification PY - 2011 IS - Paper 768 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-23883 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nohr, Michael A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Richter, Matthias A1 - Horn, Wolfgang T1 - Development of a reference material for the measurement of (S)VOC in emission test chambers N2 - Generally most of the daily time citizens in western countries spend indoors (Brasche and Bischof, 2005). Several investigations Show that harmful (semi-) volatile organic Compounds ((S)VOC) can emit from fumiture and building products into indoor air. Additionally, a significant impact of (S)VOC on the human health is also given (Boeglin et al., 2005). To assess the health impact and air quality, reliable and significant measurements and analytical procedures for the detection of contaminants in indoor air are necessary. Several studies show that the results from inter-Iaboratory round robin test for such (S)VOC measurements show considerable variations up to 300 % (Howard-Reed et al., 2007). Therefore standardisations of Methods for sample preparation, air sampling and for the measurement of (S)VOC emissions are important to get reproducible results. MACPoll (Metrology for Chemical pollutants in air) is one section ofthe environment call of EMRP (European Metrology Research Projekt) and aims to improve the analysis of gaseous pollutants in air. By investigate the traceability for the measurement of (S)VOC in indoor air one part of this project deals with the addressed problems. T2 - Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International conference CY - Brisbane, Australia DA - 08.07.2012 KW - VOC KW - Sources/emissions KW - Measurements KW - Laboratory studies PY - 2012 SN - 978-1-921897-40-5 SP - 1 EP - 2 (5B.10) AN - OPUS4-27568 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Mull, Birte A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Horn, Wolfgang T1 - Comparison of different air sampling adsorbents for a screening method for SVOC N2 - Semi volatile organic Compounds (SVOC) might be a problem for the indoor air quality among others in older wood based houses and in museums because of the former use of Wood preservatives. Wood preservatives containing biocides were partially applied in the second part of the 20th Century to protect wooden elements in houses and organic exhibits against insect attacks (Leihe 1992; Schieweck et al. 2009). For that reason measurement strategies for wooden elements in emission test chambers, exhibits in museum showcases and for theindoor air are required. The presented data were received from a study in which an analytical method for emission test chamber and Showcase measurements should be developed. Until now starting tests were performed in a Micro� Chamber (p-CTE), and in indoor air. First of all an appropriate adsorbent for the sampling of biocides had to be selected, which extraction process is not that time and solvent consuming as it is for polyurethane foam (PUF). The p-CTE is chosen for the experiments in this study due to its Operation ränge from ambient temperature up to 120 °C. To shorten the sampling time higher temperatures are necessary to force the vaporization of the higher boiling SVOC into the gas phase, because the air sampling of biocides at ambient temperature in emission test chambers can last up to several years (Horn et al. 2003). T2 - Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International conference CY - Brisbane, Australia DA - 08.07.2012 KW - Biocides KW - Air sampling KW - Micro-chamber KW - SDVB-polymer PY - 2012 SN - 978-1-921897-40-5 SP - 1 EP - 2 (6B.2) AN - OPUS4-27569 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wiegner, Katharina A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Farke, M. A1 - Stephan, Ina A1 - Nohr, Michael A1 - Horn, Wolfgang T1 - Development of methods for testing of microbiological contamination of small climate control units for air in display cases N2 - Museums worldwide are equipped with different display cases. Exhibit display cases should protect cultural objects from dust as well as from mechanical and physical damage. To ensure a stable climate inside the display cases, a low air exchange rate is operated. Typically air exchange rates are often smaller than 0.1 d'1 (Torge, 2000). Furthermore display cases are often operated with constant temperature and relative humidity. A relative humidity for parchment, leather, wooden sculptures of e.g. 60 % (Stolow, 1988) is suited for the protection of exhibits against external influences like fluctuation of humidity and temperature. T2 - Healthy Buildings 2012 - 10th International conference CY - Brisbane, Australia DA - 08.07.2012 KW - Microbiological contamination KW - Acetic and formic acid KW - Conductivity KW - Climate control device KW - Display case KW - Normung KW - Geruch KW - Messmethoden KW - Emissionsmessung KW - Bauprodukte PY - 2012 SN - 978-1-921897-40-5 SP - 1 EP - 2 (5H.2) AN - OPUS4-27562 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -