Information Circular 9162: Performance Evaluation of Two Light-Scattering Dust Monitors

Details

• Personal Author:
  Vinson, Robert P. ; Williams, Kenneth L.
• Description:
  The Bureau of Mines evaluated two real-time light-scattering dust monitors by measuring their response to Pittsburgh seam coal dust and Arizona road dust (ard). Both monitors--the pds-1, a personal dust sensor, and the pcd-1, a digital dust indicator--are made in Japan by sibata scientific ltd. Tests were conducted inside a laboratory aerosol chamber designed to maintain a uniform spatial distribution of the test dust. Pds-1 and pcd-1 measurements of concentrations for each test dust were averaged over 4-h test periods and compared with simultaneous gravimetric measurements. Both dust monitors responded linearly with mass concentration with both coal dust and ard. However, the linear response of the pds-1 differed from that of the pcd-1 for both dusts. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Information Circular
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  20 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10006082
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a0fd8bc2baa891625296dc614a79647c9fc959f32ffabc7ea7fa3c6a39e1b6355c38170a08ec4fd573eadf8f3463d9d8e41052474644882d4c42bc899887b066
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/206122/cdc_206122_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.22 MB ]