The Impact of Indoor Living Wall System on Air Quality: A Comparative Monitoring Test in Building Corridors

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Shao, Yiming
Li, Jiaqiang
Zhou, Zhiwei
Zhang, Fan
Cui, Yuanlong
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2021
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Living wall systems have been widely recognized as one of the promising approaches for building applications due to their aesthetic value and ecological benefits. Compared with outdoor living wall systems, indoor living wall systems (ILWS) play a more vital role in indoor air quality. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of ILWS on indoor air quality. In an office building, two parallel corridors were selected as comparative groups. A 10.6 m2 ILWS was installed on the sidewall of the west corridor while the east corridor was empty. Some important parameters, including indoor air temperature, relative humidity, concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), and particulate matter (PM) were obtained based on the actual environment monitoring. According to the statistical analysis of the data, there were significant differences in the concentrations of CO2 and PMs in the corridors with and without ILWS, which indicated that CO2 and PM2.5 removal rate ranged from 12% to 17% and 8% to 14%, respectively. The temperature difference is quite small (0.13 °C on average), while relative humidity slightly increased by 3.1–6.4% with the presence of the ILWS.

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Sustainability

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13

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4

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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Built environment and design

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Shao, Y; Li, J; Zhou, Z; Zhang, F; Cui, Y, The Impact of Indoor Living Wall System on Air Quality: A Comparative Monitoring Test in Building Corridors, Sustainability, 2021, 13 (4), pp. 7884

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