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This report presents a comprehensive update to the collection of dwellings used to represent the U.S. housing stock, reflecting changes and trends up to the year 2024. This update aims to ensure the collection remains relevant and accurately mirrors the
Anna Karion, Michael Link, Rileigh Robertson, Tyler Boyle, Dustin Poppendieck
Recent measurements of emissions of methane from residential natural gas appliances have indicated non-negligible emissions within residences, with impacts on both indoor air quality and climate. As a result, methane losses from residential buildings have
Han Huynh, Jenna Ditto, Michael Link, Dustin Poppendieck, Delphine Farmer, Marina Vance, Jonathan Abbatt
Arising from the Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) 2022 study at the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF), this paper presents the first evaluation of indoor surface emissions to a house measured with a surface flux chamber
Michael Link, Andrew Shore, Rileigh Robertson, Behrang Hamadani, Dustin Poppendieck
Current Germicidal Ultraviolet (GUV) devices are designed to inactive pathogens in air at either 222 nm or 254 nm wavelengths. Previous research has demonstrated both wavelengths can produce oxidants in air (222 nm: ozone, 254 nm: hydroxyl radicals) and
Aaron Goldfain, Grace Waters, Lynn Davis, Heather Patrick, Thomas A. Germer
The efficacy and safety of UV disinfection systems depend on the radiant flux throughout the space being disinfected, which in turn depends on the directional reflectance of materials located within the space. Little publicly available data exists on the
Dustin Poppendieck, Michael Link, Rileigh Robertson
Use of air cleaners has increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfire frequency. A wide range of air cleaning technologies have been implemented in various products, although the potential of these technologies to form byproducts is largely unknown
Indoor surfaces and the films on them play important roles in indoor air quality due to the high surface area to volume ratios in our homes. The chemical complexity of these films can be large, and this can increase after film formation as the chemicals in
Marina Vance, Liora Mael, Sofie Schwink, Kathryn Mayer, Thomas Dunnington, Maximilian Schmid, Nicholas Gotlib, Andrew Martin, Dustin Poppendieck, Delphine Farmer
We studied the impacts of aging and relative humidity on simulated wildfire smoke in a test house during the Chemical Assessments of Surfaces and Air (CASA) study. We injected fresh and ozone-aged biomass burning smoke into the test house during times of
Delphine K Farmer, Marina E Vance, Dustin Poppendieck, Jon Abbatt, Michael R Alves, Karen C Dannemiller, Cholaphan Deeleepojananan, Jenna Ditto, Brian P. Dougherty, Olivia R Farinas, Allen H Goldstein, Vicki H Grassian, Han Huynh, Deborah Kim, Jon C King, Jesse Kroll, Jienan Li, Michael Link, Liora Mael, Kathryn Mayer, Andrew B Martin, Glenn Morrison, Rachel O'Brien, Shubhransgshu Pandit, Barbara Turpin, Marc Webb, Jie Yu, Stephen Zimmerman
The Chemical Assessment of Surfaces and Air (CASA) study aimed to understand how chemicals transform in the indoor environment using perturbations (e.g., cooking, cleaning) or additions of indoor and outdoor pollutants in a well-controlled test house
There were about 55.4 million students enrolled in U.S. elementary and secondary schools in 2021 [1]. Worldwide, there were about 614 million secondary students and 739 million primary students [2], representing over 17 % of our global population [3]. In
Dustin Poppendieck, Rileigh Robertson, Michael F. Link
Every year in the United States conifers are purchased to serve as Christmas trees in homes where they emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to the indoor environment. Although many studies have measured the ecosystem-level emissions of VOCs from conifers
William M. Healy, Kristen Cetin, Richard Karg, Chandra Sekhar, Li Song, Jerzy Sowa, Iain Walker, Pawel Wargocki
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a rapid and dramatic shift in the number of people working from home. For ASHRAE, the shift to more work from home has an impact on its mission. Most notably, key metrics for performance of the built environment
An approach has previously been developed to estimate space-specific carbon dioxide (CO2) levels that can serve as metrics for the adequacy of outdoor ventilation rates. These metrics are based on the CO2 concentration expected in a space given its
Michael F. Link, Andrew Shore, Behrang Hamadani, Dustin Poppendieck
Recent interest in commercial devices containing germicidal ultraviolet lamps with a peak emission wavelength at 222 nm (GUV222) has focused on mitigating virus transmission indoors while posing minimum risk to human tissue. However, 222 nm light can
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been many recommendations to monitor indoor CO2 concentrations. However, the technical basis for these recommendations and stated concentration limits are not always clear. This article discusses the
This tutorial is a guide on how to implement the NIST infiltration correlations (Ng et al., 2021) into EnergyPlus building energy simulation software for the US Department of Energy prototype commercial buildings. The implementation can also be generalized
Dustin Poppendieck, Toby J. Carter, David Shaw, Nicola Carslaw
In recent decades, the role of the indoor microenvironment in our exposure to air pollutants has become clearer. Indoor air pollutants are emitted from common household items, including building materials and furnishings, and can then undergo chemical
Steven Emmerich, Brian Polidoro, Matthew Hnatov, Janet Buyer, Matthew Brookman
This report documents work performed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) under an interagency agreement in support of the Commission's effort to address the