RP-1306 -- Incident Response Monitoring Technologies for Aircraft Cabin Air Quality

ASHRAE contracted the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research for carrying out the study registered under the Research Proposal 1306-TRP. The work commissioned is to establish a technology review to identify novel candidate technologies or methods for identifying and quantifying aircraft power system contaminants, such as organophosphate esters, in the cabin air during unanticipated adverse incidents and to rank available methodologies for suitability of use, along with supporting rationale.

Subsequently to perform performance testing of the two methods ranked highest by evaluating the emitted components and the performance characteristics under laboratory conditions. Peer-reviewed literature, including but not limited to scientific and technical journals was searched on the above mentioned problems. Beside these journals, also gray literature was reviewed and included in the discussion.