Portable Monitors for Airbourne Metals at Mining Sites
Project Information
| Principal Investigator | Pam Drake |
| Institution | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
| Project URL | View |
| Relevance to Implications | High |
| Class of Nanomaterial | Generic |
| Impact Sector | Human Health |
| Broad Research Categories |
Exposure Safety Characterization |
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Funding Information
| Country | USA |
| Anticipated Total Funding | n/a |
| Annual Funding | n/a |
| Funding Source | NIOSH |
| Funding Mechanism | Intramural |
| Funding Sector | Government |
| Start Year | 2000 |
| Anticipated End Year | 2004 |
Abstract/Summary
The research focuses on evaluation of field-portable methods for measuring airborne metals. Air filter samples were collected during milling, smelting, and refining operations and analyzed, in the field, for various metals by portable anodic stripping voltammetry and X-Ray fluorescence. In some cases the aerosols include nanoparticles and in that regard this project deals with measurement of metal derived from nanoparticles.
