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J Environ Monit

Title:		Use of reference chemicals to determine passive uptake rates of common indoor air VOCs by collocation deployment of active and passive samplers
Author(s):		Xian Q; Feng YL; Chan CC; Zhu J;
Address:		"State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, P.R. China"
Journal Title:		J Environ Monit
Year:		2011
Volume:		20110720
Issue:		9
Page Number:		2527 - 2534
DOI:		10.1039/c1em10278h
ISSN/ISBN:		1464-0333 (Electronic) 1464-0325 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Passive samplers have become more popular in their application in the measurement of airborne chemicals. For volatile organic compounds, the rate of a chemical's diffusivity is a determining factor in the quantity of the chemical being collected for a given passive sampler. While uptake rate of a chemical in the passive sampler can be determined either by collocation deployment of both active and passive samplers or use of controlled facilities such as environmental chambers, a new approach without a need for accurate active flow rate in the collocation experiment was demonstrated in this study. This approach uses chemicals of known uptake rates as references to calculate the actual flow rate of the active sampling in the collocation experiment. The active sampling rate in turn can be used in the determination of the uptake rates of all other chemicals present in the passive samplers. The advantage of such approach is the elimination of the errors in actual active sampling rate associated with low flow employed in the collocation experiment. Using this approach, passive uptake rates of more than 80 volatile organic compounds commonly present in indoor air were determined. These experimentally determined uptake rates correlate well with air diffusivity of the chemicals, indicating the regression equation describing such correlation might be useful in predicting the uptake rates of other volatile organic chemicals in indoor air based on their air diffusivity"
Keywords:		"Air Pollutants/*analysis/standards Air Pollution, Indoor/*analysis/statistics & numerical data Environmental Monitoring/instrumentation/*methods Reference Standards Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis/standards;"
Notes:		"MedlineXian, Qiming Feng, Yong-Lai Chan, Cecilia C Zhu, Jiping eng England 2011/07/21 J Environ Monit. 2011 Sep; 13(9):2527-34. doi: 10.1039/c1em10278h. Epub 2011 Jul 20"