- Author
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Bryner, N. P.
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Walton, W. D.
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DeLauter, L. A.
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Twilley, W. H.
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Mullin, J. V.
- Title
- Response of Portable Particulate Monitoring Instruments to Combustion Particulates, Road Dust, and Salt Aerosols.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Minerals Management Service, Herndon, VA
- Sponsor
- Minerals Management Service, Herndon, VA
- Report
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NIST SP 995; Volume 2,
March 2003,
- Book or Conf
- Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar, 22nd. Environment Canada. Volume 2. Proceedings. June 2-4, 1999,
Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario,
Alberta, Canada,
519-544 p.,
['1999', '2003']
- Keywords
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oil spills
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fire booms
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in situ burning
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particulates
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combustion
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dust
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aerosols
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diesel fuels
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emissions
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uncertainty
- Identifiers
- mass concentration; particulate monitoring; data channel assignmants; laboratory and field experiment data sets; average and standard deviations for HEPA and ambient background air mass concentrations; average and standard deviations for HEPA and ambient background air mass concentrations on Little Sand Island; uncertainty components for mass concentration data for RAM-1 and DataRAM; uncertainty components for mass concentration data for calibrated RAM-1 and DataRAM; uncertainty components for mass concentration data for TEOM
- Abstract
- This study examined the response of several particulate monitoring instruments to aerosols which might be encountered during monitoring of an in situ oil spill burn. Aerosols included road dust, salt, and particulates from the combustion of heptane, diesel fuel, and crude oil. Different sampling heads, including Total Suspended Particulates, 10 mum cutoff (PM-1O), and 2.5 mum cutoff (PM 2.5), were used with each instrument. Both optical cell and gravimetric instruments reported similar concentrations of aerosols generated by combustion of crude oil, diesel fuel, or heptane. For the road dust and salt aerosols, gravimetric monitors reported mass concentrations two to three time higher than the values recorded by the optical cell instruments.