PMID- 27333556
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160720
LR  - 20191113
IS  - 1580-3155 (Electronic)
IS  - 1318-0207 (Linking)
VI  - 63
IP  - 2
DP  - 2016
TI  - Indoor Nanoparticles Measurements in Workplace Environment: The Case of Printing 
      and Photocopy Center.
PG  - 327-34
AB  - In recent studies, laser printers and photocopy machines have been identified as 
      important sources of indoor air pollution with fine and ultrafine particles. In 
      this work, the indoor pollution of a printing and photocopy center in Ljubljana, 
      Slovenia was investigated. The particle number concentration time series and the 
      particle size distributions were measured continuously for a period of one month 
      by a scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS). Our measurements clearly showed 
      that during operating hours the total number concentration of nanoparticles (size 
      between 15 and 750 nm) increased in both working rooms with laser printers as 
      well as in a room with photocopy machines. In rooms with laser printers the 
      bimodal particle size distribution was frequently observed (i.e. max. at ca. 20 
      or 30 nm and at ca. 100 nm), with the aged particles persisted in the room over 
      the night and over the weekend. In the photocopy room the situation was 
      different, again with a sharp increase in concentration of small particles (ca 20 
      nm) and their growth to bigger sizes, but after closing a decrease to the 
      background concentration. The results undoubtedly proved that the fast increase 
      in nanoparticles (size below 50 nm) was associated with processes, the intense 
      laser printing and photocopying activity. Our study also confirmed that the 
      ventilation of the room is a very important factor which affects the life time of 
      aged nanoparticle in the indoor environment.
FAU - Grgic, Irena
AU  - Grgic I
FAU - Bratec, Jozica
AU  - Bratec J
FAU - Bester Rogac, Marija
AU  - Bester Rogac M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Slovenia
TA  - Acta Chim Slov
JT  - Acta chimica Slovenica
JID - 101247110
EDAT- 2016/06/23 06:00
MHDA- 2016/06/23 06:01
CRDT- 2016/06/23 06:00
PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/06/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/06/23 06:01 [medline]
AID - Grgic-2016-2 [pii]
AID - 10.17344/acsi.2016.2269 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acta Chim Slov. 2016;63(2):327-34. doi: 10.17344/acsi.2016.2269.