Characterization of an ambient coarse particle concentrator used for human exposure studies: Aerosol size distributions, chemical composition, and concentration enrichment

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1123-1137

  Moffet, Ryan C ^a   Shields, Laura G ^a   Berntsen, Jon ^b   Devlin, Robert B ^c   Prather, Kimberly A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TRC Environmental Corp   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

AERODYNAMIC PARTICLE-SIZING (APS); AEROSOL TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER (ATOFMS); COARSE PARTICLE CONCENTRATOR; HUMAN EXPOSURE CHAMBERS;

AEROSOLS;

AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; AIR SAMPLING; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 11344277309     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/027868290890344     Document Type: Article

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