Vehicle interior air quality is usually determined by the levels of in-cabin air pollutants, such as particulate matter (PM), gaseous air pollution (volatile organic compounds [VOCs], oxides of nitrogen [NOx], and carbon monoxide [CO]), and carbon dioxide [CO2], which reflect the freshness of indoor air. Nowadays, cabin air filters play a key role in preventing outdoor air pollutants transporting inside vehicles; hence, in-cabin air quality can be strongly associated with the filtration performance of cabin air cleaning solutions. However, challenges are existing in a standard method for assessing the performance of a cabin air filter in real-life driving conditions. This study is to develop a low-cost mobile test method for monitoring in-vehicle PM and CO2 and evaluating the performances of cabin air filters while driving the vehicles. The results reveal that certain boundary conditions are important to have a proper method for evaluating the particle removal efficiency. For example, recirculation ventilation can lead to high PM2.5 removal efficiency regardless of the status and performance of a cabin air filter, and the remarkable increase in CO2 in a short time is an obvious indicator of the activation of recirculation. Fresh air ventilation is effective in maintaining the in-cabin freshness without the built-up of interior CO2; however, drivers can be exposed to a high level of PM2.5 concentrations with cabin air filters of poor performance. For the vehicles involved in this study, the average PM2.5 removal efficiencies were about 17-50% under fresh air with existing installed cabin air filters (more than 3 months since installed). With a brand-new filter (original cabin air filter and CabinAir Nordzone™ filter), the vehicle could filter out about 80-86% of outdoor PM2.5. The application of ionization technology together with the Nordzone™ filter was proven to further enhance the PM2.5 removal efficiency by up to 97%. Future work would be of great interest to investigate the aging performance of those optimized cabin air filters and the contribution of ionization, as a promising technology to improve the performance of cabin air filters, on those aged filters in real-driving environments.


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    Title :

    Real-Driving Measurement of Vehicle Interior Air Quality and Cabin Air Filtering Performance by Using Low-Cost Sensors


    Additional title:

    Sae Int. J. Commer. Veh


    Contributors:
    Yin, Chunyang (author) / Du, Jiee (author) / Zhang, Shaojun (author) / Xia, Tian (author) / An, Wei (author) / Cha, Yingying (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-04-07


    Size :

    13 pages




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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