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Personal Aerosol Sampler with Size Fractionation and Time Resolution

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Author

Editor

  • VA Marple
  • Benjamin Y H Liu

Summary, in English

This chapter describes a personal aerosol sampler with size fractionation and time resolution that gives samples for elemental analysis. An impaction stage collects coarse particles and a filtration stage collects finer ones. Sampling in consecutive time intervals is performed on different impaction and filtration surfaces. These sampling surfaces corresponding, for example, to 15-min intervals, may be analyzed with particle-induced X-ray emission analysis (PIXE) for fast, low-cost determination of most of the elements of hygienic interest that are present in aerosols in concentrations far below their current threshold limit values (TLV). The sampler is intended to be used for aerosol measurements in work environments to obtain detailed information on exposures.

Publishing year

1982

Language

English

Pages

907-917

Publication/Series

Aerosols in the Mining and Industrial Work Environment

Volume

3

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Ann Arbor Publishers

Topic

  • Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • aerosol
  • personal sampler

Status

Published