Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Council of Labor Affairs

Cheng-Sheng Chang

Chuen-Jinn Tsai

Tung-Sheng Shih

Da-Toung Tang

A three-stage dust sampler makes use of a porous foam as the impactor substrates. The sampler includes an annular inlet which conforms to ISO/CEN/ACGIH inhalable sampling criteria, two impactor stages to classify thoracic and respirable particles and a final filter to collect respirable particles after the impactors. For 100 ppi polymer foam substrates, and a flow rate of 3.2 lpm, the collection efficiency curves of the thoracic and respirable dust matches ISO/CEN/ACGIH criteria when the jet-to-plate distance is 1.0. The cut-off aerodynamic diameter is 9.6 and 4.0 &#x3bc;m for the first and second impactor stages, respectively, and &#x221a;{square root over (stk)} is 0.39 for both stages. The collection efficiencies for solid particles is equal to that for liquid particles, indicating that there is no solid particle bouncing from the foam substrates.

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Cheng-Sheng Chang