Expanding Academic Collaborations for Air Quality Monitoring: Purdue University and University of Georgia
News
10th Jul 2025
Two recent collaborations showcase how the AROMA instruments are supporting cutting-edge air quality research, from high-performance buildings to wildland fire simulations.
At Purdue University, Entanglement Technologies partnered with Dr. Nusrat Jung and Dr. Brandon Boor of the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, who are nationally recognized for their leadership in indoor air quality research. AROMA was deployed alongside advanced instrumentation at the pioneering zEDGE (zero Energy Design Guidance for Engineers) test house. With its real-time, high-sensitivity detection of VOCs, AROMA-VOC played a key role in capturing emissions from various indoor sources, including human activities and volatile chemical product use. This work is part of a broader effort to better understand how processes within buildings influence indoor and outdoor air quality.
At the University of Georgia, Dr. Geoffrey Smith’s lab integrated AROMA into the second phase of the G-WISE (Georgia Wildland Fire Simulation Experiment) campaign, a large-scale collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, the Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), and several universities. The team used AROMA-VOC to measure BTEX compounds and a range of other VOCs released during controlled burns of representative Southeastern fuel beds. With its rapid response and field-deployable design, AROMA proved well-suited for tracking complex, real-world emissions and advancing the team’s understanding of smoke chemistry and atmospheric impacts.
We are grateful for the opportunity to support these research teams and excited to see how their work continues to shape the future of air quality science.