Low flow rate sharp cut impactors for indoor air sampling: design and calibration.
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Biomedical subjects
K L Rubow
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A personal cascade impactor: design, evaluation and calibration.
A cascade impactor has been developed that is suitable for personal sampling. The impactor can be used with four, six, or eight stages with cut points ranging from 0.5 micron to 21 micron aerodynamic diameter. Although the impactor can be operated over a fairly wide flow rate range, it is designed specifically to be operated at 2 L/min so that a personal sampler may be used as the air mover. The nozzles of the impactor are radial slots with six slots per stage for the first six stages. Circular nozzles arranged in a radial pattern are used for the last two stages. On each stage, the area between the nozzles is used as the impaction surface for the stage before it. This design allows for the impactor to be compact, rugged and lightweight (170 gm for the four-stage design). The impactor stages are contained in a mounting bracket that can be clipped to the lapel or pocket. Although the impactor is designed for personal use, it also can be used as a compact impactor for general sampling tasks. The particle cut-off characteristics of each stage and the interstage losses were determined using monodisperse aerosols. The particle losses were found to be low and the cut-off characteristics sharp. Thus, size distributions can be obtained as accurately as with larger cascade impactors.
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Electrostatic effects in aerosol sampling and filtration.
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An evaluation of the GCA respirable dust monitor 101-1.
The GCA RDM 101-1 has been evaluated using aerosols of coal, Arizona road dust, silica, potash, and rock (copper ore) particles. The effects of the dust mass concentration, particle size distribution, and dust material on the instrument response were investigated. The instrument was found to measure the mass concentrations of respirable dust aerosols up to about 16 mg/m3 for coal and rock dust and about 20 mg/m3 for silica, potash, and Arizona road dust, providing there is not appreciable mass in the size range below approximateley 0.7 micrometer aerodynamic diameter.
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A dust generator for laboratory use.
A dust generator has been developed to produce dry dust from powderous materials for instrument calibration and laboratory studies. The powder is fed at a constant rate via a chain conveyor into a fluidized bed where the particles are deagglomerated and aerosolized. The powder feed rate is raviable from 1.2 to 36 mm3/min and the air flow rate from 9 to 30 Lpm. Aerosols of coal, silica, potash, rock, and Arizona road dust have been successfully generated for calibrating optical particle counters and aerosol mass monitors.
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A portable optical particle counter system for measuring dust aerosols.
A portable battery-operated optical particle counter/multichannel analyzer system has been developed for the numbers size distribution and number concentration measurement of light-absorbing irregular-shaped dust particles. An inertial impactor technique has been used to obtain calibration curves by relating the magnitude of the optical counter's signal to the particle's aerodynamic or Stokes' diameter. These calibrations have been made for aerosols of coal, potash, silica, rock (copper ore), and Arizona road dust particles.
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