Differential Pressure as a Means of Estimating Respirable Dust Mass on Collection Filters

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• Personal Author:
  Dobroski, Harry Jr. ; Tuchman, Donald P. ; Vinson, Robert P.
• Description:
  The use of differential pressure measurements to estimate respirable dust mass on collection filters was examined. Polyvinylchloride (PVC) surface collecting filters, glass fiber depth filters, and nylon membrane surface collection filters were sealed in sampling cassettes. A laboratory differential pressure apparatus was used to measure the differential pressure of the cassettes before and after exposure to coal and rock dusts at various flow rates and sampling times. Dusts were generated in test chambers using either a fluidized bed dust generator or a mechanical dust mill. Either a tapered element oscillating microbalance aerosol monitor or a real time aerosol dust monitor was used to check dust concentrations in the test chambers. Differential pressure was poorly correlated with dust mass for commercially available sampling cassettes loaded with PVC surface collecting filters. The aluminum mask and check valves of the cassettes interfered with dust depositing, which decreased the predictability of the differential pressure response. In addition, differential pressure measurements were unable to accurately estimate the dust mass collected on PVC filters installed in three piece polystyrene cassettes. For various mixtures of coal and rock dust sampled using glass fiber depth filters, differential pressure measurements were highly correlated with dust mass, with an overall coefficient of 0.88. For various mixtures of coal and rock dust sampled using nylon membrane surface collection filters, poor correlations between differential pressure and dust mass were determined. The authors conclude that the glass fiber depth filter offers the best differential pressure response for estimating the mass of dust samples. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Movements Air Pollutants, Occupational Coal Dust Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-filters Air-flow Analytical-methods Coal-dust Dust-samplers Dust-sampling Filter-materials Gravimetric-analysis Membrane-filters NIOSH-Author Respirable-dust Sampling-equipment Sampling-methods

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1047-322X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00240679
• Citation:
  Appl Occup Environ Hyg 1997 Dec; 12(12):1047-1051
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219330/cdc_219330_DS1.pdf
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