Kj. Koistinen et al., Fine particle (PM2.5) measurement methodology, quality assurance procedures, and pilot results of the EXPOLIS study, J AIR WASTE, 49(10), 1999, pp. 1212-1220
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27
Categorie Soggetti
Environment/Ecology,"Environmental Engineering & Energy
EXPOLIS is a European multicenter (Athens, Basel, Grenoble, Helsinki, Milan
, and Prague) air pollution exposure study. It is the first international,
population-based, large-scale study, where personal exposures to PM,, aeros
ol particles (together with volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide)
are being monitored. EXPOLIS is performed in six different centers across
Europe, the sampled aerosol concentrations vary greatly, and the microenvir
onmental samples are not collected with the same equipment as the personal
samples. Therefore careful equipment selection, methods development and tes
ting, and thorough quality assurance and quality control (QA & QC) procedur
es are essential for producing reliable and comparable PM,, data. This pape
r introduces the equipment, the laboratory test results, the pilot results,
the standard operating procedures, and the QA & QC procedures of EXPOLIS.
Test results show good comparability and repeatability between personal and
microenvironmental monitors for PM2.5 at different concentration levels me
asured across Europe in EXPOLIS centers.