Personal monitor for toxic vapors.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Jarvis NL ; Jarvis NL
• Description:
  Preliminary feasibility data toward the development of a pocket size personal monitor for glutaraldehyde (111308) vapor were collected. Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) chemical microsensors were used as the detector. Five different materials were investigated for their effectiveness as glutaraldehyde sensitive coatings on a 250 megahertz SAW resonator device. Several different polymer coated SAW resonators were found to reversibly detect glutaraldehyde vapor at concentrations in the 5 to 17 parts per million range. The best coating investigated was fluoropolyol which exhibited a sensitivity of almost 80 hertz/mg/m3 of glutaraldehyde. The sensors typically showed an initial response to glutaraldehyde vapor in less than 30 seconds. A dinitrophenylhydrazine coated SAW microsensor was studied and found to offer highly sensitive but anomalous responses to glutaraldehyde. The author concludes that the results of the study provide critical information needed for the continued design of a pocket sized Personal Exposure Monitor (PEM) for glutaraldehyde vapor. The authors suggest that it is likely that the same approach used for this glutaraldehyde PEM could be successfully used to develop PEMs for many other toxic vapors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no pdf
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Aldehydes Disinfectants Environmental Monitoring Formaldehyde Occupational Health Radiation Dosimeters Safety Volatilization
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Grant; Grants-other; Dosimetry; Aldehydes; Organic-vapors; Disinfectants; Air-monitoring; Vapor-detectors
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports   ; Grant Final Reports  
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report ; Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs ; OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-28
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00228268
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB95267837
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R43-OH-003103, 1994 Jun; :1-28
• Contact Point Address:
  Microsensor Systems, Inc 62 Corporate Court Bowling Green, KY 42103
• CAS Registry Number:
  Glutaraldehyde (CAS RN 111-30-8) ; Glutaraldehyde (CAS RN 111-30-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other ; Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  Microsensor Systems, Inc., Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19930915
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  19940314
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/246300/cdc_246300_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]