Graphical tools for the planning and interpretation of polyurethane foam based passive air sampling campaigns

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Graphical tools for the planning and interpretation of polyurethane foam based passive air sampling campaigns
المؤلفون: Yuening Li, James M. Armitage, Frank Wania
المصدر: Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts. 24:414-425
بيانات النشر: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Air Pollutants, Volatile Organic Compounds, Polyurethanes, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Environmental Chemistry, General Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Environmental Monitoring
الوصف: Due to low cost and easy handling during sampling and extraction, passive air samplers (PASs) using polyurethane foam (PUF) as a sorbent have become the most commonly deployed PASs for semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs). However, depending on the scenario, PUF-PAS may not always be operating in the linear uptake phase, which implies the need to consider how temperature, wind speed, deployment length and chemical properties interact to determine the amount of a target chemical taken up and the fraction of a depuration compound (DC) being lost during deployment. Guidance is, therefore, necessary to quantitatively interpret curvi-linear uptake in the PUF-PAS and avoid selection of DCs unsuited to the deployment conditions. In this study, the PAS-SIM model is used to generate graphical tools that aid in addressing important questions frequently arising during the use of PUF-PASs. Specifically, we generated five charts that display (i) the inherent sampling rate as a function of wind speed and a chemical's molecular diffusivity, (ii) the length of the linear uptake period as a function of chemical properties, temperature and the acceptable deviation from linearity, (iii) the time to 95% equilibrium as influenced by chemical properties, temperature and wind speed, (iv) the dependence of the fractional loss of DCs on chemical properties, temperature, wind speed and deployment length, and (v) the influence of chemical properties, temperature and the total suspended particle concentration on the extent of sorption to atmospheric particles. The charts also facilitate the assessment of the influence of parameter uncertainty. It is hoped that these charts assist with planning and interpreting sampling campaigns based on a mechanistic and quantitative understanding of uptake in PUF-based PASs.
تدمد: 2050-7895
2050-7887
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::45b2d876fe1acedaef7f453a61850cc7
https://doi.org/10.1039/d1em00559f
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....45b2d876fe1acedaef7f453a61850cc7
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE