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Indoor Environmental Quality

2015; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-15359-9_2

2191-5318

Ricardo M. S. F. Almeida, Vasco Peixoto de Freitas, João M. P. Q. Delgado,

Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure

This chapter starts by explaining the notion of indoor environmental quality. Afterwards a complete description of thermal comfort and indoor air quality is provided. The thermal comfort concept, the factors that most influence it and the criteria for thermal comfort assessment, including the adaptive models, are described in detail. Regarding the indoor air quality, the most important pollutants are presented, including their concentration limits currently in force in Portugal.