期刊
INDUSTRIAL HEALTH
卷 49, 期 6, 页码 726-734出版社
NATL INST OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH, JAPAN
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1279
关键词
MWCNT; Nanotube; Exposure assessment; Sioutas cascade impactor; Elemental carbon; Carbon analysis
资金
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [20590621]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20590621] Funding Source: KAKEN
As multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) come to be used in a wider range of products, increasing production is expected to result in greater exposure of workers to MWCNTs. In this research, we present a method for evaluating the concentration of MWCNT aerosols distinctively on the basis of the elemental carbon (EC) concentration. Respirable dust is sampled using a Sioutas cascade impactor (SCI) for a certain volume of workplace air. The SCI can collect size-segregated particles having aerodynamic diameters of 2.5 mu m, 1.0 mu m, 0.5 mu m, 0.25 mu m and <0.25 mu m. MWCNTs in sampled particles are determined by carbon analysis. Based on the phenomenon that MWCNTs easily aggregate/agglomerate, the present procedure for distinguishing MWCNTs uses the EC in particles larger than 1 mu m as an index of MWCNT; the EC is oxidized at a high temperature, 920 degrees C, in carbon analysis. We propose a three-step procedure for distinguishing between MWCNT aerosol and atmospheric particulate matter, and for measuring MWCNT concentrations in workplace air on the basis of EC concentration.
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