Airborne particle emission of a commercial 3D printer: the effect of filament material and printing temperature

Indoor Air

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 398-408

  Stabile, L ^a   Scungio, M ^a   Buonanno, G ^a,b   Arpino, F ^a   Ficco, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D printers; emission; emission factor; emission rate; particle size distribution; ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTING; EXTRUSION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PRINTING PRESSES;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; EMISSION; EMISSION FACTORS; EMISSIONS RATES; EXTRUSION TEMPERATURES; FILAMENT MATERIALS; PARTICLE EMISSIONS; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PARTICLES-SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS; DEVICES; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINTING; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRINTING; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84977587462     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ina.12310     Document Type: Article

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