Fugitive Dust Emissions: Development of a Real-time Monitor
Abstract
Current efforts to study fugitive dust (FD) are hampered by the lack of an effective, real-time instrument to measure the broad range of particle sizes that make up FD. To meet this need the overall objective of this project was to develop and evaluate a novel instrument capable of measuring, in real-time, ambient concentrations of particles between approximately 2 and 100 m. This new instrument consisted of a new large particle inlet (LPI) combined with a commercially available particle spectrometer (Droplet Measurement Technology FM-100). The specific objectives of this work were to characterize this new instrument (LPI- FM-100) in a series of laboratory, wind-tunnel and field experiments and compare its performance to traditional, commercially available samplers. The LPI-FM-100 should be able to classify particles into 20 size bins with mean bin sizes between 4 and 73 m. The instrument should measure a broader range of particle sizes than with those obtained using other techniques to measure large particles.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA553534
Entities
People
- Philip K. Hopke
- Suresh Dhaniyala
- Thomas M. Holsen
Organizations
- Clarkson University