ArticleScience advances2023
The persistence of smoke VOCs indoors: Partitioning, surface cleaning, and air cleaning in a smoke-contaminated house.
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- Time Scales of Gaseous Smoke Contamination Indoors from Real and Simulated Wildland-Urban Interface Fires.ACS ES&T air · 2026Article
- VOC injection into a house reveals large surface reservoir sizes in an indoor environment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Adverse Birth Outcomes Associated with Heat Stress and Wildfire Smoke Exposure During Preconception and Pregnancy.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Dynamics of residential indoor gas- and particle-phase water-soluble organic carbon: measurements during the CASA experiment.Environmental science. Processes & impacts · 2025Article
- Influence of Cleaning on Indoor Air Concentrations of Volatile and Semivolatile Organic Compounds in Residences.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Chemical Transformations of Infiltrated Wildfire Smoke on Indoor-Relevant Surfaces.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Volatile Organic Compounds Inside Homes Impacted by Smoke from the Marshall Fire.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Physical Health Symptoms and Perceptions of Air Quality among Residents of Smoke-Damaged Homes from a Wildland Urban Interface Fire.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Environmental and behavioral mitigation strategies for patients with atopic dermatitis.JAAD international · 2024Article
- The clinical, mechanistic, and social impacts of air pollution on atopic dermatitis.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2024Review
- After the Smoke Clears: Wildland-Urban Interface Fires and Residues in Nearby Homes.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
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Abstract
Wildfires are increasing in frequency, raising concerns that smoke can permeate indoor environments and expose people to chemical air contaminants. To study smoke transformations in indoor environments and evaluate mitigation strategies, we added smoke to a test house. Many volatile organic compounds (VOCs) persisted days following the smoke injection, providing a longer-term exposure pathway for humans. Two time scales control smoke VOC partitioning: a faster one (1.0 to 5.2 hours) that describes the time to reach equilibrium between adsorption and desorption processes and a slower one (4.8 to 21.2 hours) that describes the time for indoor ventilation to overtake adsorption-desorption equilibria in controlling the air concentration. These rates imply that vapor pressure controls partitioning behavior and that house ventilation plays a minor role in removing smoke VOCs. However, surface cleaning activities (vacuuming, mopping, and dusting) physically removed surface reservoirs and thus reduced indoor smoke VOC concentrations more effectively than portable air cleaners and more persistently than window opening.
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