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Sampling to Meet ISO Size-Selective Criteria - Call for papers

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:37:01 -0500

2007 Conference: Workplace Aerosol Sampling to Meet ISO

Size-Selective Criteria - Call for papers

Sponsored by ASTM Committee D22 on Sampling and Analysis of Atmospheres and

its Subcommittee D22.04 on Workplace Atmospheres

Conference Chairman: Harper

Exposure Assessment Branch

Health Effects Laboratory Division

NIOSH

town, WV

Conference Committee: Göran Lidén, University of Stockholm, Sweden

Sergey Grinshpun, University of Cincinnati, OH

Breysse, s Hopkins University

Alan Howe, Health and Safety Laboratory, United Kingdom

Dietmar Breuer, BIA, Germany

Görner, INRS, France

ASTM Staff Manager: A. Luciw, ASTM International, West Conshohocken,

PA

ASTM Symposia Manager: Dorothy Fitzpatrick, ASTM International, West

Conshohocken, PA

VENUE

The conference will be held at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT,

USA from Monday 16th July, through noon on Friday 20th July, 2007.

To learn more about the University of Vermont and the Burlington, VT area

you may want to visit the following websites:

University of Vermont - directions

http://www.uvm.edu/about_uvm/maps_directions

Lake Champlain Valley-Greater Burlington http://www.vermont.org

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

Physiological data on the fraction of particles of different sizes that

penetrate into and/or deposit in various compartments of the human

respiratory tract enabled the development of health-based sampling

conventions. In the mid-nineties the International Organization for

Standardisation (ISO), the Comité Européenne de Normalisation (CEN) and the

American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) agreed on

common definitions for the inhalable, thoracic and respirable aerosol

penetration fractions. Samplers were required that would meet those same

criteria, and protocols were needed to assess their performance. Novel

samplers were developed and existing samplers were tested, but the situation

has been clouded by critiques of the sampling conventions and the test

protocols, and practitioners of industrial hygiene may have had reason to

feel confused. This conference is intended to summarize the past fourteen

years of research in this area, to present the state-of-the-art situation,

to provide consensus recommendations, and to discuss future research needs.

The target audience is industrial hygienists and researchers in Government,

both federal and State, and academia, and those consulting and working in

large and small companies, including insurance carriers.

The symposium is intended to address the following topics:

Biologically relevant size-selective aerosol sampling criteria

Inhalable/thoracic/respirable

Limits on the scope of application (wind speeds, particle sizes)

Sampler testing criteria and test beds

Inhalable sampling, including

Organic dusts (e.g. wood, flour, pesticides)

Metals (e.g. nickel, lead and beryllium)

Comparisons of inhalable samplers

Thoracic sampling, including

Oil mists, Acid mists, Fibers and Sensitizers

Respirable sampling, including

Silica, Welding fume

Nanoparticle sampling, including Diesel exhaust

Bioaerosol sampling

Standards development

The program is designed to provide a forum for presenting and discussing

current issues of concern. Open discussion will follow each presentation.

Attendance at the conference will allow you to meet the authors and pose

questions and concerns directly to them. Citations of the work presented may

be made only with the written permission of the authors.

A full program with titles and authors will be made available on the ASTM

website in April 2007. Information on registration and hotel accommodations

will also be provided on the ASTM website at http://www.astm.org/ under the

heading of " Symposia and Workshops. "

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions are invited for full papers or posters on any of the above

topics. Because this Conference is directed at education and standards

development, summary presentations of work previously presented or published

will be considered.

Please send a preliminary abstract (250-300 words) to the Conference Chair

at mharper@... by March 1st, 2007. The abstract must include a clear

definition of the objective and approach of the work. It is anticipated that

most presentations will be oral, but posters will be considered. Please

indicate with the abstract submission which format is preferred.

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