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Real-time measurement of the size of air particulates
Environment Protection Engineering (2006)
  • Marek Bogacki
  • Robert Oleniacz
  • Marian Mazur
  • Stanisław Kamiński
Abstract

The gravimetric method of measuring PM10 particulate concentration in air is the reference method used in Poland and in the European Union. To get information on mass fractions of lower diameter particulates (e.g. PM5, PM2,5 or PM1) one usually has to apply various pre-sorters (most often of the impact type). This paper presents a new device that measures air particulate sizes in real time. The device makes it possible to classify (sort) air particulates according to size into 256 granularity classes from about 0.4 µm up to 300 µm. Tests of a device prototype were conducted in Warsaw at the turn of 2005/2006.

Keywords
  • fine particulate measurements,
  • PM10,
  • PM2.5,
  • ambient air concentrations,
  • particle sizer,
  • aerosol size distribution,
  • real-time analysis,
  • isokinetic sampling
Publication Date
2006
Citation Information
Marek Bogacki, Robert Oleniacz, Marian Mazur and Stanisław Kamiński. "Real-time measurement of the size of air particulates" Environment Protection Engineering Vol. 32 Iss. 3 (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert_oleniacz/1/