Table 3.
Information about analytes determined in indoor air in several residential attached garages
| Analyte determined in garage indoor air | Localization | Sampling technique | Final determination technique | Average concentration level (or range) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene | Residence with an attached garage, San Antonio, USA | • 75-μm film solid phase micro-extraction carboxen/polydimethylsiloxane (SPME-CAR/PDMS) fiber (Supelco) • Passivated and pressurized whole-air canister samplers |
GC-FID | 2.3 ± 2.4 ppbv | Zielińska et al. (2012) |
| Toluene | 5.4 ± 5.3 ppbv | ||||
| Ethylbenzene | 0.9 ± 0.8 ppbv | ||||
| m/p-Xylene | 3.1 ± 2.6 ppbv | ||||
| o-Xylene | 1.2 ± 0.9 ppbv | ||||
| 1,3-Butadiene | 0.1 ± 0.2 ppbv | ||||
| MTBE | 1.1 ± 1.0 ppbv | ||||
| Formaldehyde | Acidified 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine cartridges | HPLC-DAD | 7.7 ± 1.5 ppbv | ||
| Acetaldehyde | 2.6 ± 1.5 ppbv | ||||
| CO | Passivated and pressurized whole-air canister samplers | Converted to methane for analysis by GC-FID | 0.8 ± 0.7 ppm | ||
| Benzene | Residential garages to adjoining houses in 15 homes in southeast Michigan, USA | Passive tube-type samplers and Tenax GR adsorbents | GC-MS | 36.6 ± 38.5 μg/m3 | Batterman et al. (2007) |
| Toluene | 214.3 ± 180.3 μg/m3 | ||||
| Ethylbenzene | 28.0 ± 23.7 μg/m3 | ||||
| m,p-Xylene | 114.0 ± 97.0 μg/m3 | ||||
| o-Xylene | 38.0 ± 32.7 μg/m3 | ||||
| α-Pinene | 6.8 ± 10.7 μg/m3 | ||||
| d-Limonene | 6.5 ± 5.2 μg/m3 | ||||
| Naphthalene | 8.9 ± 8.7 μg/m3 | ||||
| 1,2,3-Trimethyl benzene | 10.3 ± 8.8 μg/m3 | ||||
| 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 44.0 ± 37.6 μg/m3 | ||||
| 1,3,5-Trimethylbenzene | 12.4 ± 10.3 μg/m3 | ||||
| Benzene | A garage containing two cars attached to the house located in Ann Arbor, MI, USA | Stainless steel sampling tube filled with a Tenax GR adsorbent | GC-MS | 19.0 μg/m3 ± 4.6% | Batterman et al. (2006) |
| Toluene | 114.8 μg/m3 ± 3.9% | ||||
| p-Xylene, m-xylene | 65.8 μg/m3 ± 6.8% | ||||
| 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene | 19.7 μg/m3 ± 10.4% | ||||
| Naphthalene | 3.4 μg/m3 ± 10.1% | ||||
| α-Pinene | 0.9 μg/m3 ± 5.7% | ||||
| d-Limonene | 7.9 μg/m3 ± 10.2% | ||||
| Methylene chloride | Attached garages of residences in the Boston, MA, USA | Active sample collection with the use of a custom-made triple-bed thermal desorption tube with 200 mg of Carbopack B, 230 mg of Carbopack X, and 170 mg of Carboxen 1001 (Supelco/PerkinElmer, Bellefonte, PA) | GC-MS | 9.8 ± 36 μg/m3 | Dodson et al. (2008) |
| Chloroform | 0.08 ± 0.08 μg/m3 | ||||
| Trichloroethene | 3.3 ± 10 μg/m3 | ||||
| Tetrachloroethene | 2.8 ± 7.8 μg/m3 | ||||
| 1,4-Dichlorobenzene | 2.3 ± 8.4 μg/m3 | ||||
| 1,3-Butadiene | 7.4 ± 18 μg/m3 | ||||
| MTBE | 131 ± 338 μg/m3 | ||||
| Benzene | 58 ± 145 μg/m3 | ||||
| Toluene | 102 ± 69 μg/m3 | ||||
| Ethylbenzene | 35 ± 39 μg/m3 | ||||
| m,p-Xylene | 90 ± 64 μg/m3 | ||||
| o-Xylene | 35 ± 36 μg/m3 | ||||
| Styrene | 3.4 ± 5.3 μg/m3 | ||||
| α-Pinene | 38 ± 110 μg/m3 | ||||
| d-Limonene | 7.3 ± 13 μg/m3 | ||||
| Formaldehyde | Active sampling using acidified 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine-coated silica cartridges (Waters Corp, Milford, MA) | HPLC-UV-VIS | 6.7 ± 6.4 μg/m3 | ||
| Acetaldehyde | 8.9 ± 8.6 μg/m3 | ||||
| Benzene | Three types of residential garages in the Tri-City agglomeration (Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot), Poland | Radiello® diffusive passive samplers with graphitized charcoal cartridge as a sorption medium | GC-FID | Range from 5.9 to 53 μg/m3 | Marć et al. (2016) |
| Toluene | Range from 7.1 to 195 μg/m3 | ||||
| Ethylbenzene | Range from 3.0 to 39 μg/m3 | ||||
| o-Xylene | Range from 5.6 to 44 μg/m3 | ||||
| p,m-Xylene | Range from 6.3 to 99 μg/m3 |