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How can we effectively remove indoor formaldehyde?

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Deru Xu
Deru Xu Oct 13, 2020
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How do we detect indoor formaldehyde?

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Darko Savic
Darko Savic Oct 13, 2020
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Jamila
Jamila 4 months ago
There aren't many devices that detect formaldehyde reliably or accurately. Recently, I read a paper in which researchers used a device called an electronic nose to detect formaldehyde! The electronic nose tech has been used to detect hazardous gases before. So, it would be interesting to see what happens next with this technology! [1] Reference: van den Broek, Jan, Andreas T. Güntner, and Sotiris E. Pratsinis. "Selective Detection of Formaldehyde By a Flame-Made Sensor Array for Environmental Monitoring." 237th ECS Meeting with the 18th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS 2020)(May 10-14, 2020). ECS, 2020.

Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI)

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Subash Chapagain
Subash Chapagain Oct 13, 2020

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678761/

Formaldehyde neutralizing microbes

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Darko Savic
Darko Savic Oct 13, 2020

[1]https://news.wisc.edu/microbe-eats-formaldehyde/

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Shubhankar Kulkarni
Shubhankar Kulkarni4 months ago
Formaldehyde will usually be in the air. The microbes on surfaces would probably not be able to ingest/ digest it. We need something that breaks the formaldehyde molecules in the air or something that purifies air.
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Darko Savic
Darko Savic4 months ago
Ventilation could take care of the air while something applied to the surfaces should hopefully prevent (grab) it from getting into the air
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Shubhankar Kulkarni
Shubhankar Kulkarni4 months ago
Darko Savic True! You mean to layer the new furniture with the microbe till the formaldehyde fumes subside?

An exhaust that detects formaldehyde and removes it

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Shubhankar Kulkarni
Shubhankar Kulkarni Oct 14, 2020

Method of detecting formaldehyde

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Deru Xu
Deru Xu Nov 16, 2020

[1]Thomas Osterland, Hendrik Stein, and Thomas Wilharm. Voltammetric Determination of Formaldehyde at Low Concentrations in the Synthetic Fuel Oxymethylene Dimethyl Ether Innokentij Bogatykh. Energy & Fuels 2019 33 (11), 11078-11081

[2]Pengju Hu, Haisi Xiang, Xuejing Zhang,et al. Influence factors of determination of formaldehyde in air by phenolic reagent spectrophotometry[J]. Coal and Chemical Industry, 2020,43(04):140-142.

[3]Luyang Wang, Zhen Zhao, Xin Yuan. Detection and confirmation of free formaldehyde by acetyl acetone method[J].Chemical Engineer,2016,30(09):22-24.

[4]Naohide Shinohara, Tomohisa Kajiwara, Masato Ohnishi, et al. Passive Emission Colorimetric Sensor (PECS) for Measuring Emission Rates of Formaldehyde based on an Enzymatic Reaction and Reflectance Photometry. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42, 12, 4472–4477.

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Shubhankar Kulkarni
Shubhankar Kulkarni3 months ago
Deru Xu Although the suggestion is very precise, the whole process seems time-consuming and costly. It is suited for companies that manufacture furniture or upholstery but not for individual homes. Can we come up with a slightly crude but a simpler procedure (something like a proxy) that can be used by, potentially, everybody?

Formaldehyde detector connected to air ventilation

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Darko Savic
Darko Savic Nov 22, 2020

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