Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Buildings – Sustainable Built
Environment, Oct 28-31, 2007,Sendai, Japan, Volume III, 249-256
USE OF LIVING POT-PLANTS TO CLEANSE
INDOOR AIR – RESEARCH...
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Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Buildings – Sustainable Built
Environment, Oct 28-31, 2007,Sendai, Japan, Volume III, 249-256
USE OF LIVING POT-PLANTS TO CLEANSE
INDOOR AIR – RESEARCH REVIEW
Jane Tarran†
, Fraser Torpy and Margaret Burchett
Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Sydney, Australia
ABSTRACT
Urban indoor air quality (IAQ) is an international health issue, since city dwellers spend 90% of their
time indoors.
Research by a number of authors is reviewed here, demonstrating a range of capacities
of indoor plants to improve IAQ and promote occupant wellbeing.
Our laboratory studies, with nine
‘indoor plant’ species, and our ‘field’ studies in 60 offices, show that potted-plants can reliably reduce
total volatile organic compound (TVOC) loads, a major class of indoor pollutants, by 75%, to below
100 ppb.
They work equally well with or without air-condi
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