Measurement capability of field portable organic vapor monitoring instruments under different experimental conditions

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Coffey, Christopher C ^a   Pearce, Terri A ^a   Lawrence, Robert B ^a   Hudnall, Judith B ^a   Slaven, James E ^a   Martin, Stephen B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct reading organic vapor monitors; Gases; Performance

Indexed keywords

HEXANE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; EXPERIMENTATION; FIELD PORTABLE DIRECT READING ORGANIC VAPOR MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMIDITY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; IONIZATION; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TEMPERATURE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CALIBRATION; CHARCOAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEXANES; HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 54949130993     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620802514728     Document Type: Article

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