Characterization of the Aerosols Resulting from Arc Welding Processes

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• Personal Author:
  Biswas P ; Zimmer, Anthony T.
• Description:
  As a result of recent research on the potentially adverse health effects of sub-micrometer aerosols, a generation chamber and sampling system was designed to characterize aerosols from a popular welding system that utilized either gas metal arc welding or flux cored arc welding techniques. The experimental apparatus allowed flexibility in changing arc welding parameters, sample locations, and was designed to promote the steady-state generation of fumes over several minutes. In contrast to prior studies where the particle size distribution was weighted by mass without regard to its time/temperature history, the welding aerosols in this study were temporally collected and weighted by a lower moment, particle number. The results demonstrated that the welding alloy had a marked effect on the particle size distribution, morphology and chemical aspects of the resultant fume. In addition, the particle size distributions from these processes were multi-modal and dynamically changed with time. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Air Pollutants, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Welding
• Keywords:
  Aerosol-particles Aerosol-sampling Arc Author Keywords: Welding Fumes Fumigants Sampling Sampling-methods Welding-industry
• ISSN:
  0021-8502
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  32
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021945
• Citation:
  J Aerosol Sci 2001 Aug; 32(8):993-1008
• Contact Point Address:
  Division of Applied Research and Technology, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
• Email:
  atz0@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Aerosol Science
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d55ce52bc79d36e3d07263c46a8ec0adec4f70f477b0808ebf4549415708ad7ced338af6e29d70278a991e67ef5e9e99613cb37197e9873d14b638f760b84966
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/199018/cdc_199018_DS1.pdf
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