Comprehensive survey on radon mitigation and indoor air quality in energy efficient buildings from Romania.

Energy efficiency Indoor air quality Indoor radon Mitigation

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Jan 2021
Historique:
received: 15 05 2020
revised: 05 08 2020
accepted: 19 08 2020
pubmed: 7 9 2020
medline: 7 9 2020
entrez: 6 9 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Over the last 10 years applied scientific research has been carried out in Romania to tacked the residential radon issues. The increased interest to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings has lead to the implementation and use of new architectural solutions aimed to save energy in houses and other buildings. As a consequence, the degree of retrofit in existing buildings and energy efficiency of new buildings promoted the need to not only mitigate indoor radon, but improve indoor air quality overall. The present study found that the while the best performance in radon reduction was confirmed to be based on sub-slab depressurization (61% - 95% reduction), centralized and decentralized mechanical supply and exhaust ventilation with heat recovery yielded a good efficiency in overall improvement of indoor air quality (CO

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141858 PMID: 32892081
pubmed: 32892081
pii: S0048-9697(20)35387-0
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141858
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

141858

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

B D Burghele (BD)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

M Botoș (M)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Faculty of Civil Engineering, Tehnical University of Cluj-Napoca, Str. C. Daicoviciu 15, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

S Beldean-Galea (S)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

A Cucoș (A)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Electronic address: alexandra.dinu@ubbcluj.ro.

T Catalina (T)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Faculty of Engineering Installations, Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest, Bld. P. Protopopescu 66, Bucharest, Romania.

T Dicu (T)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

G Dobrei (G)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Ș Florică (Ș)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Geology, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. M. Kogalniceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

A Istrate (A)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Clima Instal Systems SRL, Str. Prunilor nr. 15, Oras Pantelimon, ILFOV.

A Lupulescu (A)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

M Moldovan (M)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

D Niță (D)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

B Papp (B)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

I Pap (I)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

K Szacsvai (K)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

C Sainz (C)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cantabria, c/ Herrera Oria s/n, 39011 Santander, Spain.

A Tunyagi (A)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Faculty of Physics, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. M. Kogălniceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

A Țenter (A)

"Constantin Cosma" Radon Laboratory (LiRaCC), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, "Babeş-Bolyai" University, Str. Fântânele 30, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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