Laboratory Performance Evaluation of a Low-Cost Electrochemical Formaldehyde Sensor.

Sensors (Basel)

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.

Published: August 2023

Formaldehyde is a known human carcinogen and an important indoor and outdoor air pollutant. However, current strategies for formaldehyde measurement, such as chromatographic and optical techniques, are expensive and labor intensive. Low-cost gas sensors have been emerging to provide effective measurement of air pollutants. In this study, we evaluated eight low-cost electrochemical formaldehyde sensors (SFA30, Sensirion, Staefa, Switzerland) in the laboratory with a broadband cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy as the reference instrument. As a group, the sensors exhibited good linearity of response ( > 0.95), low limit of detection (11.3 ± 2.07 ppb), good accuracy (3.96 ± 0.33 ppb and 6.2 ± 0.3% ), acceptable repeatability (3.46% averaged coefficient of variation), reasonably fast response (131-439 s) and moderate inter-sensor variability (0.551 intraclass correlation coefficient) over the formaldehyde concentration range of 0-76 ppb. We also systematically investigated the effects of temperature and relative humidity on sensor response, and the results showed that formaldehyde concentration was the most important contributor to sensor response, followed by temperature, and relative humidity. The results suggest the feasibility of using this low-cost electrochemical sensor to measure formaldehyde concentrations at relevant concentration ranges in indoor and outdoor environments.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10490822PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23177444DOI Listing

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