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Indoor Emission, Oxidation, and New Particle Formation of Personal Care Product Related Volatile Organic Compounds

Wu, Tianren  
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Müller, Tatjana
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Wang, Nijing
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October 8, 2024
Environmental Science and Technology Letters

Personal care products (PCPs) contain diverse volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and routine use of PCPs indoors has important implications for indoor air quality and human chemical exposures. This chamber study deployed aerosol instrumentation and two online mass spectrometers to quantify VOC emissions from the indoor use of five fragranced PCPs and examined the formation of gas-phase oxidation products and particles upon ozone-initiated oxidation of reactive VOCs. The tested PCPs include a perfume, a roll-on deodorant, a body spray, a hair spray, and a hand lotion. Indoor use of these PCPs emitted over 200 VOCs and resulted in indoor VOC mixing ratios of several parts per million. The VOC emission factors for the PCPs varied from 2 to 964 mg g-1. We identified strong emissions of terpenes and their derivatives, which are likely used as fragrant additives in the PCPs. When using the PCPs in the presence of indoor ozone, these reactive VOCs underwent oxidation reactions to form a variety of gas-phase oxidized vapors and led to rapid new particle formation (NPF) events with particle growth rates up to ten times higher than outdoor atmospheric NPF events. The resulting ultrafine particle concentrations reach ∼34000 to ∼200000 cm-3 during the NPF events.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00353
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85202756512

Author(s)
Wu, Tianren  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Müller, Tatjana

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Wang, Nijing

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Byron, Joseph

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Langer, Sarka

IVL Svenska Miljoinstitutet

Williams, Jonathan

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Licina, Dusan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2024-10-08

Published in
Environmental Science and Technology Letters
Volume

11

Issue

10

Start page

1053

End page

1061

Subjects

Chamber study

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Indoor ultrafine particles

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Inhalation exposure

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Oxidized vapors

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Ozone

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FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

EPFL Science Seed Fund

Swiss National Science Foundation

205321_192086

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January 24, 2025
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