CAREER: Mass Transfer Modeling of Volatile Organic Emissions from Building Materials

9624488小这是一个奖项，以支持研究人员进行的影响室内空气质量的因素，如建筑材料的影响，是潜在的污染意义的挥发性有机化合物的来源。 研究人员计划为三种通用的建筑材料开发基于基本原理的传质模型，并评估可用于评估这些模型中可使用的参数质量的程序。 他计划使用的方法包括筛选测量样品选择，制定机械传质模型，解决方案涉及分析和数值方法，动态微量天平实验，以确定扩散和分配系数和有限的，大规模的室验证程序的模型设计在他的研究。 预计提出的研究将提供一个良好的理论基础，表征各种建筑材料的挥发性有机碳化合物的来源。 作为本研究的预期产品的模型可能被证明在减少在试验室中进行的昂贵和耗时的材料研究的数量方面特别有用。 该奖项是根据NSF 95- 118《教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划提交提案指南》提交的。 因此，它不仅解决了拟议的研究，而且将研究者的职业发展计划与该领域的当前知识状况以及该奖项支持的潜在影响工作联系起来，这将导致研究者学科的教育创新和有效教学。

9624488 Little This is an award to support research to be conducted by this investigator on factors that influence the quality of indoor air as affected by building materials that are the potential source of volatile organic compounds of pollutional significance. The investigator plans on developing fundamentally-based, mass-transfer models for three generic classes of building materials and evaluate procedures that can be used to evaluate the quality of the parameters that can be used in those models. Methods he plans to use include screening measurements for sample selection, formulation of mechanistic mass-transfer models, solutions involving analytical and numerical methods, dynamic microbalance experiments to determine diffusion and partition coefficients and limited, large-scale chamber validation procedures for the models devised during his research. The research proposed is expected to provide a sound theoretical foundation for the characterization of a wide range of building materials as sources of volatile organic carbon compounds. The models that are an expected product of this research may prove to be especially useful in reducing the number of costly and time- consuming studies of materials conducted in test-chambers. The proposal leading to this award was submitted in response to NSF 95- 118, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Guidelines for Submission of Proposals. As such, it not only addressed the proposed research but related the investigator's career development plan to the current state of knowledge in the field and of the potential impact work supported under this award would result in educational innovation and effective teaching in the investigator's discipline.