A spectrometer for measuring particle size distributions in the range of 3 nm to 10 μm

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 63-72

  Liu, Jieqiong ^a   Jiang, Jingkun ^a,b   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Deng, Jianguo ^a   Hao, Jiming ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION KEY LABORATORY OF SOURCES AND CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION COMPLEX   (China)

Author keywords

aerodynamic diameter; electrical mobility; linear inversion; particle size distribution; spectrometer

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSOLS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROMETERS;

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AERODYNAMIC PARTICLE SIZER; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; COUNTING EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICAL MOBILITY; LINEAR INVERSION; POLYSTYRENE LATEX SPHERES; SCANNING MOBILITY PARTICLE SIZER;

PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84949097322     PISSN: 20952201     EISSN: 2095221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-014-0754-x     Document Type: Article

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