Emissions from dryer vents during use of fragranced and fragrance-free laundry products
Goodman, Nigel B., Wheeler, Amanda J., Paevere, Phillip J., Agosti, Giovanni, Nematollahi, Neda, and Steinemann, Anne (2019) Emissions from dryer vents during use of fragranced and fragrance-free laundry products. Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, 12 (3). pp. 289-295.
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Abstract
Fragranced laundry products emit a range of volatile organic compounds, including hazardous air pollutants. Exposure to fragranced emissions from laundry products has been associated with adverse health effects such as asthma attacks and migraine headaches. Little is known about volatile emissions from clothes dryer vents and the effectiveness of strategies to reduce concentrations and risks. This study investigates volatile emissions from six residential dryer vents, with a focus on d-limonene. It analyses and compares concentrations of d-limonene during use of fragranced and fragrance-free laundry products, as well as changes in switching from fragranced to fragrance-free products. In households using fragranced laundry detergent, the highest concentration of d-limonene from a dryer vent was 118g/m(3) (mean 33.34g/m(3)). By contrast, in households using only fragrance-free detergent, the highest concentration of d-limonene from a dryer vent was 0.26g/m(3) (mean 0.25g/m(3)). After households using fragranced detergent switched to using fragrance-free detergent, the concentrations of d-limonene in dryer vent emissions were reduced by up to 99.7% (mean 79.1%). This simple strategy of switching to fragrance-free products significantly and almost completely eliminated d-limonene emissions. Results from this study demonstrate that changing from fragranced to fragrance-free products can be a straightforward and effective approach to reduce ambient air pollution and potential health risks.
| Item ID: | 57908 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1873-9326 |
| Keywords: | Dryer vent, Fragrance, Fragrance-free, Detergent, Laundry, Emissions, Volatile organic compounds, VOC, Air quality |
| Copyright Information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Funders: | National Environmental Science Programme (NESP), CSIRO, Land and Water, Australian Department of Education and Training, Melbourne School of Engineering Teaching and Learning Infrastructure Fund |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2019 07:38 |
| FoR Codes: | 40 ENGINEERING > 4011 Environmental engineering > 401199 Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified @ 70% 42 HEALTH SCIENCES > 4206 Public health > 420604 Injury prevention @ 30% |
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