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 - 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 - 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 - 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 -