PMID- 19809709
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100118
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1464-0333 (Electronic)
IS  - 1464-0325 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 10
DP  - 2009 Oct
TI  - Field calibration of polyurethane foam disk passive air samplers for PBDEs.
PG  - 1859-65
LID - 10.1039/b903152a [doi]
AB  - A field study was performed to derive uptake rates of airborne polybrominated 
      diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) to polyurethane foam (PUF) disk passive air samplers 
      (PAS) and to investigate the influence of deployment location and device design. 
      Data are presented on the gas-particle partitioning of PBDEs, since atmospheric 
      phase distribution was considered to be a variable which could affect sampler 
      performance. Uptake rates for these compounds were similar to those derived 
      previously for other classes of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 
      (approximately 2-6 m(3)/day), with rates higher for the higher brominated 
      species. Whilst other compound classes (e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls) are 
      predominantly present in the air in the gas phase, heavier PBDEs have an 
      association with particulates in the atmosphere at ambient temperatures. In this 
      study, the PUF disk PAS therefore sampled PBDEs present in the gas phase and on 
      fine aerosols with a similar sampling efficiency to those which are predominantly 
      gas phase compounds. Compounds which are exclusively on particles are sampled 
      less efficiently. A comparison of the three most commonly used PUF deployment 
      configurations, used by different research groups, indicated little difference in 
      uptake rates. The ranges of derived air concentrations for BDE-47, -99, and -183 
      between three sampler designs were 7.5-9.8, 7.4-12.4, and 4.7-6.6 pg/m(3), 
      respectively. This suggests the robustness of this sampler in comparisons between 
      regional and global campaigns where these three designs are employed.
FAU - Chaemfa, Chakra
AU  - Chaemfa C
AD  - Centre for Chemicals Management, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster 
      University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK.
FAU - Barber, Jonathan L
AU  - Barber JL
FAU - Moeckel, Claudia
AU  - Moeckel C
FAU - Gocht, Tilman
AU  - Gocht T
FAU - Harner, Tom
AU  - Harner T
FAU - Holoubek, Ivan
AU  - Holoubek I
FAU - Klanova, Jana
AU  - Klanova J
FAU - Jones, Kevin C
AU  - Jones KC
LA  - eng
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090720
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Monit
JT  - Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM
JID - 100968688
RN  - 0 (Aerosols)
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Polyurethanes)
SB  - IM
MH  - Aerosols/*analysis/*chemistry
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis/chemistry
MH  - Calibration
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - Geography
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/*analysis
MH  - Particle Size
MH  - Polyurethanes/analysis
MH  - Temperature
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - Volatilization
MH  - Weather
EDAT- 2009/10/08 06:00
MHDA- 2010/01/19 06:00
CRDT- 2009/10/08 06:00
PHST- 2009/10/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/10/08 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/01/19 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/b903152a [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Monit. 2009 Oct;11(10):1859-65. doi: 10.1039/b903152a. Epub 2009 Jul 
      20.