A COLLABORATIVE EUROPEAN STUDY OF PERSONAL INHALABLE AEROSOL SAMPLER PERFORMANCE

摘要

Following the adoption of new international sampling conventions for inhalable, thoracic and respirable aerosol fractions, a working group of Comite Europeen de Normalisation (CEN) drafted a standard for the performance of workplace aerosol sampling instruments. The present study was set up to verify the experimental, statistical and mathematical procedures recommended in the draft performance standard and to check that they could be applied to inhalable aerosol samplers. This was achieved by applying the tests to eight types of personal inhalable aerosol sampler commonly used for workplace monitoring throughout Europe.