Laboratory Evaluation and Calibration of Three Low-Cost Particle Sensors for Particulate Matter Measurement

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1063-1077

  Wang, Yang ^a   Li, Jiayu ^a   Jing, He ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^b   Jiang, Jingkun ^b   Biswas, Pratim ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CALIBRATION; COSTS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE; QUALITY CONTROL;

CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; LABORATORY EVALUATION; LINEARITY OF RESPONSE; PARTICLE COMPOSITION; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; REFERENCE INSTRUMENTS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AIR MONITOR; AIR QUALITY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMIDITY; LABORATORY TEST; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LINEARITY OF RESPONSE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PARTICLE COMPOSITION; PARTICLE SENSOR; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 84946744101     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2015.1100710     Document Type: Article

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