New tabletop SEM-EDS-based approach for cost-efficient monitoring of airborne particulate matter

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 311-318

  Wilkinson, Kai ^a   Lundkvist, Johanna ^a   Seisenbaeva, Gulaim ^a   Kessler, Vadim ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Element analysis; Monitoring; Particulate matter; PM; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICULATE MATTERS; ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES; ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; ATOMIC COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL CONTENT; CONVENTIONAL EQUIPMENT; COST-EFFICIENT; ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH EFFECTS; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; INDIVIDUAL PARTICLES; NUCLEOPORE FILTERS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PM; ROUTINE MONITORING; SCANNING ELECTRONS; SEM; SEM-EDS;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREAS; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

HEALTH RISKS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

AIR MONITORING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH HAZARD; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARTICULATE MATTER; RURAL AREA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; URBAN AREA; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 78349309760     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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