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ArticleMining, metallurgy & exploration2024

Assessment of Sub-micrometer-Sized Particles with Practical Activities in an Underground Coal Mine.

Yi-Hsuan Chen, Alejandro Munoz, Connor Krause, Jürgen Brune, Candace S J Tsai

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Article in Mining, metallurgy & exploration, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yi-Hsuan ChenDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Alejandro MunozDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Connor KrauseDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Jürgen BruneMining Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO USA.
Candace S J TsaiDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7296-8278

Funding

Occupational and Environmental Exposures and Work Practices for Nanomaterials and Electronic ProductsR25ES033043 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TSAI, CANDACE SUJUNG · 2021 to 2025
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NIEHS NIH HHS R25 ES033043
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This assessment was designed to explore and characterize the airborne particles, especially for the sub-micrometer sizes, in an underground coal mine. Airborne particles present in the breathing zone were evaluated by using both (1) direct reading real-time instruments (RTIs) to measure real-time particle number concentrations in the workplaces and (2) gravimetric samplers to collect airborne particles to obtain mass concentrations and conduct further characterizations. Airborne coal mine particles were collected via three samplers: inhalable particle sampler (37 mm cassette with polyvinyl chloride (PVC) filter), respirable dust cyclone (10 mm nylon cyclone with 37 mm Zefon cassette and PVC filter), and a Tsai diffusion sampler (TDS). The TDS, a newly designed sampler, is for collecting particles in the nanometer and respirable size range with a polycarbonate filter and grid. The morphology and compositions of collected particles on the filters were characterized using electron microscopy (EM). RTIs reading showed that the belt entry had a greatly nine-times higher total particle number concentration in average (~ 34,700 particles/cm Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42461-024-01140-w.

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PMID39717168
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