Field calibration of polyurethane foam (PUF) disk passive air samplers for PCBs and OC pesticides

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1290-1297

  Chaemfa, Chakra ^a   Barber, Jonathan L ^a   Gocht, Tilman ^b   Harner, Tom ^c   Holoubek, Ivan ^d   Klanova, Jana ^d   Jones, Kevin C ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Passive air sampling; Persistent organic pollutants

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); LOCATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; POLLUTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERS; RIGID FOAMED PLASTICS; SAMPLING; STAINLESS STEEL;

ACCUMULATION RATES; ACTIVE SAMPLERS; AIR FLOWS; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; EQUILIBRIUM TIMES; FIELD CALIBRATIONS; FIELD STUDIES; GEOGRAPHICAL SCALES; METEOROLOGICAL TOWERS; OC PESTICIDES; PASSIVE AIR SAMPLERS; PASSIVE AIR SAMPLING; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYURETHANE FOAMS; REMOTE AREAS; SPATIAL MAPPINGS; UPTAKE RATES;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYURETHAN FOAM;

AIR SAMPLING; CALIBRATION; MAPPING METHOD; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PESTICIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLER; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYURETHANES;

EID: 55649093532     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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