Exposure to engineered nanoparticles: Model and measurements for accident situations in laboratories

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 420, Issue , 2012, Pages 119-126

  Walser, Tobias ^a   Hellweg, Stefanie ^a   Juraske, Ronnie ^a   Luechinger, Norman A ^b   Wang, Jing ^a,c   Fierz, Martin ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Nanograde Llc   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emission scenarios; Engineered nanoparticles; One box model; Workplace exposure

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT SITUATION; EMISSION RATES; EMISSION SCENARIO; EQUIPMENT FAILURES; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; GAS PHASE PRODUCTION; GOOD MIXING; INTAKE FRACTION; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; PRODUCTION CONDITION; PRODUCTION ZONES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; WORKPLACE EXPOSURE; WORST CASE; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; INDOOR AIR; LABORATORY METHOD; MODEL TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STOICHIOMETRY; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; FUME; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MEASUREMENT; NANOPARTICLE EMISSION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862807689     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.01.038     Document Type: Article

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