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Impact of Microclimate and Indoor Plants on Air Ion Concentration
Journal
Environment. Technology. Resources. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference
ISSN
1691-5402
Date Issued
2013
Author(s)
Natalia Sinicina
Andris Skromulis
DOI
10.17770/etr2013vol1.827
Abstract
Saturation of air ions is essentially important for all living beings, especially for human health. Existing sanitary norms provide that concentration of small ions has to be in range of 400-50000 ions cm-3 and unipolarity coefficient 0.4 ≤ K ≤ 1.0. Many species of indoor plants emit organic volatile compounds and air ions, therefore they could be used for improving the quality of indoor air. The results show that ionization level of indoor air is significantly insufficient and selected species of indoor plants are not able to improve it. They serve rather as supplementary surfaces for ion absorption. Possible interaction between microclimate, ion concentration and indoor plants in different times of the day is analyzed.
Project(s)
Research project of the Latvian Council of Science „Development of technology for the creation of multicomponent nanostructured protective coatings for industrial products” No.10.0009, subproject No.3 “Modeling and assessment of ecological safety during technological processes of sputtering of coating”.
