Field application of a newly developed personal nanoparticle sampler to selected metalworking operations

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 849-861

  Young, Li Hao ^a   Lin, Yun Hua ^a   Lin, Tzu Hsien ^a   Tsai, Perng Jy ^a   Wang, Ying Fang ^b   Hung, Shao Ming ^c   Tsai, Chuen Jinn ^c   Chen, Chun Wan ^d  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Metalworking; Personal sampling; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE CHARACTERISTICS; MASS CONCENTRATION; METALWORKING FLUIDS; METALWORKING OPERATIONS; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; RESPIRABLE PARTICLES; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

METAL WORKING; MILLING (MACHINING); SPOT WELDING; STORMS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CALIBRATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; WELDING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84875937416     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2012.10.0270     Document Type: Article

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