Indoor air pollution source database.

Abstract

The US Environmental Protection Agency recognized the need to gather available source characterization experimental data into a computerized database to provide the medium for data transfer between source characterization researchers and interest groups including monitoring teams, policymakers, private industry and consumer groups. The indoor air source emission database is a computerized system compiling data from source characterization studies done in the US and abroad. It addresses the entire range of indoor air pollution sources: combustion, material, and activity sources, and makes readily available the emission factors determined for each of the pollutants and sources tested, data about the test facility, conditions of the experiment, sampling and analytical data, and an abstract of each publication. The indoor air source emissions database is currently composed of five databases linked together in hierarchical structure. The names of the databases are: BIBLIO, SOURCE, COND, SAMPLE, and POLL.