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Main Title Proceedings, Advances in Particle Sampling and Measurement (Daytona Beach, FL, October 1979) /
Author Smith, W. B.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Smith, Wallace B.
CORP Author Southern Research Inst., Birmingham, AL.;Industrial Environmental Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory ; National Technical Information Service [distributor],
Year Published 1980
Report Number EPA-600/9-80-004; EPA-68-02-3118; PB80187487
Stock Number PB80-187487
OCLC Number 08065555
Subjects Aerosols--Measurement--Congresses ; Air--Pollution--Measurement--Congresses ; Air quality--Measurement--Congresses
Additional Subjects Particles ; Meetings ; Sampling ; Air pollution ; Aerosols ; Particle size ; Impactors ; Velocity measurement ; Mass ; Laboratory equipment ; Drops(Liquids) ; Deposition ; Dust ; Concentration(Composition) ; Air pollution sampling ; EPA method 5 ; Fugitive emissions
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=2000B1C7.PDF
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EJBD  EPA-600/9-80-004 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 02/11/2014
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-9-80-004 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
ESAD  EPA 600-9-80-004 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 05/01/2017
NTIS  PB80-187487 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation viii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Abstract
The proceedings consist of 20 reports of research on equipment and techniques for sampling and characterizing particulate emissions and other aerosols. The inhalable particle size range (up to 15 micrometers) is emphasized, and the basis for selecting this range as a standard is discussed. Novel or improved equipment includes: virtual impactors; impactors for sampling high dust loadings; an impactor/quartz-crystal-microbalance combination used to sample stratospheric aerosols; a tapered-element oscillating microbalance for monitoring particulate emissions and aerosols; an automated piezoelectric microbalance for monitoring atmospheric aerosols; a hot-wire probe for measuring liquid droplets; sampling systems that are improvements on EPA Method 5 equipment for measuring mass emissions; and more efficient sampling probe inlets. New or improved techniques include: measurement of aerodynamic diameter by laser/doppler velocimetry of particles accelerated in a converging nozzle; automation of diffusion-battery/condensation nucleus counter systems; sampling inhalable particles in fugitive aerosols; particle-size spectrometry for characterizing inhalation toxicity; computer extrapolation of particle-size ranges; and the identification of impactor errors due to nonideal behavior to particle deposition in sampling probe nozzles.
Notes
"Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology." "Southern Research Institute." "January 1980." Includes bibliographical references. "Contract no. 68-02-3118, program element no. EHE624."