The VOCs group develops methodologies and instrumentation for characterization, reactivity study, environmental fate modeling, removal technologies for volatile organic compound,
• Mapping pollutant VOCs in ambient air and for human exposure assessment in the vicinity of storage and processing plants of fossil fuels and solid biomasses;
• Developing methods for screening of biomarker VOCs in breath as diagnostics of human diseases , metabolic disorders , exposure to pollutants;
• Studying low odor threshold VOCs in the case of odorous impacts, and evaluating interactions between odors and nebulised solutions;
• analysing phytogenic VOCs and characterizing aromas of food products.
Active and passive samplers, online analysis, speciation studies with thermal desorption-gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric systems, chemoresistive sensor systems and dynamic olfactometry are applied.