Emission Rates of Volatile Organic Compounds Released from Newly Produced Household Furniture Products Using a Large-Scale Chamber Testing Method

Table 6

Comparison of TVOC and individual aromatics measured from the present and previous studies.

6 (a) Concentrations of VOCs (µg/m³)

		Compound								Reference
Order	Source	Benzene	Toluene	Ethyl benzene	p-Xylene	Styrene	o-Xylene	α-Pinene	TVOC
(1)	New furniture	1.17	330	115	96.9	78.6	42	50.1	1038	This study
(2)	Office	11.92				642.5				Guo et al. [34]
	Nonsmoker house	6.56				6.05
(3)	Renovated central library	2.87–290.4	51.89–83.7	BDL*	23.56–58.3		2.55–6		178.6–504	Srivastava et al. [35]
	(polishing and varnishing; furniture)
(4)	Resident housing unit	2.6	1286.7	27.3	79.1	276.8				Kang et al. [23]

*Below detection limit.

6 (b) Emission flux of VOCs (mg/unit/hr)

Order	Source	Compound								Reference
		Benzene	Toluene	Ethyl benzene	p-Xylene	Styrene	o-Xylene	α-Pinene	TVOC
(1)	Pressed wood products:									Guo et al. [36]
	Particleboard								86.89 ± 74.7
	PVC board								62.76 ± 122.4
	Plywood								53.51 ± 1.72
	Hardboard I								259.5 ± 30.79
	Hardboard II								293.9 ± 57.5
	Hardboard III								10.0 ± 40.4
(2)	New office furniture				60				1030	Brown [30]
	(wood-based panel,; after 1 day)
(3)	Hardwood (oak, cheery)	acid acetic	>2000							Risholm-Sundman et al. [37]
	Softwood (pine, spurce)	terpenes	>1400
(4)	Pressure-treated		2.89							James and Yang [38]
	Vinyl floor tile		0.01		0.719