LBNL-IED-Ventilation and Indoor Environmental Quality-Indoor VOC's-Table 8

Table 8

Comparison of geometric mean concentrations, standard deviations (GM, GSD) and concentration ranges for 28 selected VOCs (ppb) and TVOC (mg m^-3) between four new manufactured and seven new site-built houses.

Manufactured Houses

Site-Built Houses

Range

Compound

(ppb)

GSD

(ppb)

GSD

(ppb)

n-Decane

2.1

3.4

0.5 - 16.0

5.5

2.4

2.6 - 21.9

n-Undecane

1.1

3.3

0.2 - 7.2

3.6

1.8

2.0 - 9.1

n-Dodecane

2.7

2.5

0.6 - 10.5

4.2

1.9

1.2 - 7.3

n-Tridecane

5.5

3.2

0.8 - 21.4

5.1

4.5

0.2 - 15.6

Toluene^a

2.4

1.6

1.0 - 5.6

10.3

2.6

3.6 - 29.2

m/p-Xylene^a

1.0

1.7

0.5 - 2.7

3.9

2.3

1.4 - 11.5

Styrene

0.9

1.7

0.2 - 2.3

2.6

3.6

0.5 - 14.3

-Pinene

16.3

1.8

5.4 - 35.3

28.1

1.8

12.2 - 60.0

-Pinene

4.3

1.9

1.5 - 10.6

11.5

1.8

5.9 - 26.3

3-Carene

5.0

2.1

1.3 - 14.6

3.7

3.0

0.4 - 9.3

d-Limonene

2.9

1.8

1.1 - 6.7

5.4

1.9

2.2 - 12.2

1-Butanol

3.2

1.8

0.6 - 6.0

12.8

1.8

5.2 - 21.4

Phenol^a

2.6

2.0

0.6 - 5.8

1.4

1.9

0.5 - 3.6

Ethylene glycol

17.9

2.4

<9.2 - 43.8

83.0

2.7

20.7 - 491

Propylene glycol

2.2

<1.1 - 12.0

7.6

10.9

<2.2 - 360

2-Butoxyethanol

2.6

2.0

0.5 - 5.8

3.1

3.4

0.7 - 12.3

TMPD-MIB^b

2.4

1.5

1.4 - 6.7

9.1

2.2

3.1 - 25.1

TMPD-DIB^b

0.8

1.7

0.3 - 1.9

1.8

5.7

0.1 - 7.2

Butyl acetate

0.3

2.8

<0.1 - 2.8

3.2

2.6

0.6 - 14.1

2-Butanone

6.7

1.9

2.3 - 28.3

8.8

2.5

2.4 - 42.1

Formaldehyde^a

1.3

21 - 47

1.6

14 - 58

Acetaldehyde^a

1.7

3 - 19

1.9

12 - 57

Hexanal

16.1

1.5

7.9 - 25.9

26.3

1.6

14.1 - 51.3

Heptanal

1.5

1.4

0.8 - 2.5

2.1

1.8

1.3 - 4.9

Octanal

2.5

1.4

1.4 - 3.6

2.6

2.0

1.4 - 7.2

Nonanal

2.8

1.3

1.6 - 3.9

3.2

2.0

1.0 - 7.6

Acetic acid^a

117

2.0

24.9 - 275

53.9

1.4

36.0 - 91.8

Hexanoic acid

1.2

2.4

0.3 - 5.5

1.0

1.7

0.5 - 2.0

TVOC^a (mg m^-3)

1.52

1.4

0.81 - 2.96

2.72

1.5

1.58 - 4.88

^a GM outdoor concentration for all data sets: toluene = 1.5 ppb; m/p-xylene = 0.5;
phenol = 0.3; acetic acid = 5.9; formaldehyde = 2; acetaldehyde = 1;
TVOC = 0.09 mg m^-3

^b TMPD-MIB = 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol monoisobutyrate;
TMPD-DIB = 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol diisobutyrate