Measurements of size-segregated emission particles by a sampling system based on the cascade impactor

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 878-883

  Turšič, Janja ^a   Grgić, Irena ^a   Berner, Axel ^b   Škantar, Jaroslav ^c   Čuhalev, Igor ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Environmental Department   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CASCADE IMPACTOR; SIZE-SEGREGATED EMISSION PARTICLES;

EMISSION CONTROL;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COAL; LEAD; TRACE ELEMENT; VANADIUM;

EMISSION CONTROL; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DESIGN; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SAMPLING; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TRACE ELEMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

COAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER PLANTS; SLOVENIA; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38949178404     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es071094g     Document Type: Article

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