Abstract:
Indoor human activity is an important factor of indoor particulate matter resuspension, and the study of indoor particulate matter resuspension is of great significance to the evaluation of indoor air quality. A public classroom in Jinnan campus of Nankai University was taken as the research area. The resuspension concentration and diffusion rate of the human walking-induced indoor PM
2.5 resuspension under different dust loads of indoor ground were studied by field experiments. The results show that: (1) When the time interval is 3, 7 and 15 days, the indoor PM
2.5 dust load is 0.11, 0.18 and 0.30 g/m
2, respectively. (2) The concentration of the human walking-induced indoor PM
2.5 resuspension in the indoor center aisle reaches the maximum value at about 1 min for different dust loads of indoor ground. The relationship between the time when PM
2.5 resuspension concentration reaches the maximum value and the different dust loads on the ground is not obvious. (3) With the increase of indoor dust loads, the concentration of the human walking-induced indoor PM
2.5 resuspension will also increase. When the indoor PM
2.5 dust load was 0.30 g/m
2, the average concentration of PM
2.5 resuspension for breathing plane at 1.1 m sitting position and 1.5 m standing position was 3.03 and 2.68 μg/m
3, respectively, which was about 2-3 times of the average concentration of PM
2.5 resuspension for PM
2.5 dust loads of 0.18 and 0.11 g/m
2. (4) The quantitative analysis of PM
2.5 resuspension by using particle transport model shows that the magnitude of dust loads don't affect the resuspension fraction of PM
2.5, and the resuspension fraction of PM
2.5 is 2.2×10
-8. When the indoor PM
2.5 dust loads is 0.11, 0.18, 0.30 g/m
2, the diffusion rate of the human walking-induced indoor PM
2.5 resuspension is 7.62×10
-11, 1.25×10
-10 and 2.08×10
-10 kg/s, respectively. The dust load on the ground will affect the diffusion rate of particulate matter and indoor PM
2.5 concentration.