Casella CEL Sampling heads for personal dust sampling - Manual (Page 3)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE
1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1
Total Inhalable Sampling Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Respirable Sampling Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Gas & Vapour Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. FILTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1 Glass Fibre (GFA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 Membrane (MCE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. TOTAL INHALABLE SAMPLING HEADS . . . . . . . . 7
3.1
I.O.M. Head, I.O.M. Cassette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 Total Inhalable Dust Sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3 Conical Inhalable Sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.4 Head for Lead Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.5 Open Faced Filter Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6 Rosin Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.7 Asbestos Sampling Head With Cowl . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4. RESPIRABLE DUST HEADS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1
Higgins - Dewell Plastic Cyclone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. GAS VAPOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.1
Sorbent Tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.1.1 Sorbent Tube & Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2 Impinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2.1 Arnold Bubbler (Impinger equivalent) . . . . . . 14
5.2.2 Operation of the Bubbler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6. CALIBRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.1
Calibration at High Flow
(Sampling Heads for Particulates) . . . . . . . . 15
6.1.1 Calibration at High Flow Using a Rotameter . . . 15
6.1.2 Calibration at High Flow Using a
BIOS Dry Cal Flowmeter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.1.3 Calibration at High Flow for Impingers
and Bubblers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.2 Calibration at Low Flow (Gas and Vapour Sampling) . . . 17
6.2.1 Calibration at Low Flow Using a CPC
and Low Flow Adaptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.2.2 Inserting Tubes into Their Holders . . . . . . . . 18
6.2.3 Calibration at Low Flow Using a
Low Flow Flowmeter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.2.4 Calibration at Low Flow Using a
Bios Dry Cal Flowmeter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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