@inproceedings{50d4598a68a6459285b1865dc5f9ddf6,
title = "Indoor and Outdoor Air Profiling with GC-IMS",
abstract = "Air Quality research is a trending topic that has received increasing attention from scientific community around the globe. Due to the high relevance of recent discoveries in areas like medicine or chemistry, analytical techniques with high sensitivity and selectivity play a crucial role in the characterization of the ambient air composition. This preliminary study intends to evaluate the air quality around a university campus by profiling VOCs from 14 locations with differentiated characteristics, intended for further industrial contextualization. Multiple air samples were collected from each defined location and further analysed with the GC-IMS technique. Totally, 33 compounds were detected, and their intensity peak values, and drift and retention times were used to identify 11 of them. The suitability of GC-IMS to quickly and easily assess air quality become evident. Further detailed studies should include a wider range of locations to identify new VOCs and their eventual consequences to human health.",
keywords = "Air quality, Gas chromatography, Intensity profiling, Ion mobility spectrometry, Volatile Organic Compounds",
author = "Moura, {Pedro C.} and Valentina Vassilenko and Fernandes, {Jorge M.} and Santos, {Paulo H.}",
note = "Funda{\c c}{\~a}o para a Ci{\^e}ncia e Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal) and NMT, S.A. co-financing the PhD grant (PD/BDE/130204/2017) of the Doctoral NOVA I4H Program.; 11th Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2020 ; Conference date: 01-07-2020 Through 03-07-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-45124-0_43",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-45123-3",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "437--444",
editor = "Camarinha-Matos, {Luis M.} and Nastaran Farhadi and F{\'a}bio Lopes and Helena Pereira",
booktitle = "Technological Innovation for Life Improvement - 11th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2020, Proceedings",
address = "Netherlands",
}
