title: The application of performance standards to personal airborne dust samplers.
abstract: This paper summarizes current proposals for the specification and testing of personal sampler performance, and discusses their implications for the precision of dust concentration estimates. A method of specifying the performance of a sampling instrument in terms of the range of masses it would collect from various dust clouds is proposed. Some of the practical difficulties which are likely to arise in the process of testing real samplers with respect to performance standards are discussed.
authors: L C
authors: LC
authors: Kenny
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Lidén
mesh_terms: D000336:Aerosols; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004867:Equipment Design; D009314:National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S.; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D010316:Particle Size; D012107:Research Design; D012952:Societies; D014481:United States; D014484:United States Environmental Protection Agency
chemical_list: D000336:Aerosols; D000393:Air Pollutants; D004391:Dust