Smoking Tobacco
Giannis Papadopoulos
I’m working on an indoor air quality model in CONTAM and I’d like to represent cigarette smoking as a pollutant source. What is the recommended way to:
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Define an appropriate contaminant (e.g. ETS or PM2.5 from tobacco smoke)?
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Set a realistic emission rate per cigarette (mg/s or mg/h)?
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Assign time schedules to reflect intermittent smoking (e.g. a few cigarettes per hour)?
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Account for room size, air exchange rate, and air leakage between adjacent zones so I can see how smoke spreads to neighboring rooms/apartments?
If anyone has example input files, typical emission factors, or best-practice assumptions for modeling cigarette smoke in CONTAM, I’d really appreciate it.
Dols, William Stuart (Fed)
You can refer to the following publications that involve CONTAM studies that include tobacco smoke as a source.
Milando, C.W., F. Carnes, K. Vermeer, J.I. Levy, and M.P. Fabian, Sensitivity of modeled residential fine particulate matter exposure to select building and source characteristics: A case study using public data in Boston, MA. Sci Total Environ, 2022: p. 156625.
Underhill, L.J., W.S. Dols, S.K. Lee, M.P. Fabian, and J.I. Levy, Quantifying the impact of housing interventions on indoor air quality and energy consumption using coupled simulation models. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 2020. 30(3): p. 436-447.
You can refer to the Introduction to CONTAM video tutorials for guidance on scheduling sources and accounting for interzone airflows, among other topics.
- Stuart
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