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The sampling characteristics and efficiencies of personal dust samplersChung, Kwong-Yan (Kenneth) January 1987 (has links)
The act of dust sampling to characterise potential hazards in the respiratory tract is a process that requires initial removal of non-inspirable particles followed by separation into regional fractions. Particles that are not inhaled cannot deposit anywhere in the respiratory system. Furthermore, there is an important category of aerosol for which the conditions for potential injury is inhalation and deposition anywhere in the respiratory tract. Thus inspirable dust sampling is fundamental to all aerosol sampling for health risk evaluation. A proper estimation of inhalation exposure will need to examine the relationship between the inspiration efficiency of a sampler and particle size distribution of a dust cloud; and methods to collect a representative sample in the workplace.
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Quantifying Uncertainty in Low Velocity Human Aspiration Studies: Effect of Secondary Aspiration and Thin-walled Reference Sampling in Low Velocity ConditionsAnderson, Kimberly Rose 01 July 2013 (has links)
In order to evaluate a biologically relevant measure of exposure, inhalable samplers are designed to match the aspiration efficiency of the human head. Human inhalability is evaluated in wind tunnel studies using mannequins as human surrogates or using numerical and computational methods. There has been differences between human aspiration efficiency estimates using wind tunnel studies and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling, particularly for larger particle sizes (>68 µm). The objective of this dissertation was to evaluate biases in low velocity inhalability studies in an effort to explain the discrepancies in results between experimental and computational inhalability studies. This research addressed the phenomena of secondary aspiration on human facial skin, evaluated the appropriateness of mannequin surfaces as surrogates for humans, and evaluated the performance of the thin-walled reference sampler in low velocities to quantify potential biases in low velocity inhalability studies.
The first study determined a realistic coefficient of restitution (CoR) for human facial skin over a range of ages under nine environmental conditions. This study found human facial skin is non-uniform across the face and identified significant interaction between age and sampling location, indicating that how CoR varies with age is dependent on the location sampled.
The second study applied the average CoR values for forehead, cheeks and nose in CFD simulations to evaluate the effect of secondary aspiration on human aspiration efficiency estimates and determine how refined the CoR value needed to be to accurately model human aspiration efficiency. This study identified significant increases in aspiration when allowing for particle bounce, but no significant differences between uniform CoRs of 0.5, 0.8 and 1.0, indicating differences between different mannequin surfaces and particle interactions would have minimal effect on aspiration efficiency estimates.
The third study evaluated the performance of a horizontally-aligned reference sampler in low wind speeds (0.1 to 0.4 m s-1). While significant differences from unity were identified, differences ranged from -1 to 6% and would have a negligible effect on sampler efficiency estimates. The use of a horizontally-aligned isokinetic reference sampler was found to be appropriate in freestream velocities ranging from 0.1 to 0.4 m s-1.
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