Advances in personal gas and vapor monitoring.

Details

• Personal Author:
  McCammon CS Jr.
• Description:
  Development of an 8 hour whole air sampler is reviewed, along with small passive monitors, versatile solid collection tubes, active personal dosimeters, advanced personal sampling pumps, and a pocket sized gas chromatographic analyzer to measure personal industrial exposures. The midget impinger or bubbler, charcoal, gel and sorbent tube methods, and new low flow pumps of greater ranges that allow use of new sorbents also are discussed. Personal passive or active dosimeters that are based on the principle of diffusion are described. Passive models for sampling nitrogen dioxide (10102440), sulfur dioxide (74446095), mercury (7439976), and organic vapors are examined. The pocket sized gas chromatograph is being developed using microetching technology. The author concludes that in 3 to 5 years, this small device possibly will selectively monitor 10 different contaminants, provide real time warning of acute exposures, and accumulate a worker's time weighted average exposure to each of the components. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  JEPTDQ; Air-sampling-equipment; Air-quality-measurement; Personal-exposure-detectors; Personal-protective-equipment; Safety-equipment; Microelectronics; Analytical-methods; Analytical-instrumentation; Control-technology
• ISSN:
  0146-4779
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  325-334
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00091989
• Citation:
  J Environ Pathol Toxicol 1979 May/Jun; 2(5):325-334
• CAS Registry Number:
  74446-09-5 ; Mercury (CAS RN 7439-97-6) ; Nitrogen dioxide (CAS RN 10102-44-0)
• Editor(s):
  Bridbord K; French J
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Environmental Pathology and Toxicology. Toxicological and Carcinogenic Health Hazards in the Workplace: proceedings of the First Annual NIOSH Scientific Symposium, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1978
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/247487/cdc_247487_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]