A New Apparatus to Study the Microbiological Contamination of Air,

Abstract

The new apparatus allows to determine accurately the total number of microorganism particles in a unit volume of air, and to determine the size of respirable fraction of microorganism aerosol which could penetrate pulmonary alveola. The apparatus permits to perform under various conditions the evaluation of microbiological health hazards, even in the case of air very strongly contaminated with microorganisms such as, for instance, in an environment contaminated with organic dusts. There is possibility of an adaptation of apparatus to perform determinations of the contamination of air with impurities of other character. The described apparatus could find broad utilization in studies connected with protection of the natural environment of man, as well as in studies in the fields of medicine, agro-technology and zoo-technology.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 14, 1977
Accession Number
ADA045993

Entities

People

  • Czeslaw Kwapiszewski
  • Jacek Dutkiewicz

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accumulators
  • Aerosols
  • Air Force
  • Bacteria
  • Bacterial Aerosols
  • Contamination
  • Diameters
  • Dispersions
  • Environment
  • Environmental Pollutants
  • Field Conditions
  • Foreign Technology
  • Microorganisms
  • Motors
  • New York
  • Particles
  • Time Switches

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Microbial Pathology
  • Systems Analysis and Design