ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER

A National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center of Excellence


 

EMEAF Services

EMEAF Projects Served

EMEAF Facilities & Equipment

Environmental Modeling and Exposure Assessment Facility - Facilities & Equipment


Facilities & Equipment

The EMEAF plays a critical role in the EHSRC by providing state-of-the-art instruments and support to enhance exposure assessment research among Center investigators. The facility is housed in two rooms (540 s.f.) of the Institute for Rural and Environmental Health (IREH). These rooms provide for equipment storage as well as staging areas for instrument set-up and calibration. As shown in the list on the following page, the facility has access to a wide variety of instruments used to sample gases, vapors, aerosols and noise. Additional instruments used for sampling and analysis of organic dusts, microbes, endotoxins and glucans are jointly administered by this facility and the PTF (see PTF equipment list). All instrumentation in the EMEAF is available to EHSRC researchers on an as-needed basis.

Equipment

Aerosol Measurement

  • 4 Aerosol Particle Counters
  • 5 Aerosol Photometers
  • 30 Inhalable Dust Samplers
  • 6 PM-10 Samplers
  • 4 PM-2.5 Samplers
  • 13 Respirable Cyclone Samplers
  • 6 Single Stage Viable Samplers

Airflow and Pressure Sensors

  • 7 Airflow Calibrators
  • 2 Thermal Anemometers
  • 2 Digital Barometers
  • 2 Digital Manometers

Gas and Air Measurement

  • 10 CO, CO2, RH & Temp. Sensors
  • 2 Hydrogen Sulfide Monitors
  • 4 Multi-gas Meters
  • 2 Photo-ionization Detectors
  • 12 Sorbent Tube Samplers
  • 1 Infrared Analyzer (MIRAN)
  • 1 Chemiluminescent Ammonia Analyzer

Noise and Light Meters

  • 9 Light Meters
  • 7 Noise Meters

Recording Devices and Computers

  • 1 Camcorder
  • 1 Digital Camera
  • 2 Laptop Computers
  • 1 Desktop Computer

Sampling Pumps

  • 59 Personal Sampling Pumps
  • 10 Mid-volume (4-28 L/min) Sampling Pumps

Personal Protection

  • 3 Full-Face Respirators
  • 6 Half-face Respirators

Modeling Software

  • MATLAB Computational and Graphing Software
  • AIRPAK Computational Fluid Dynamics Software
  • ISC/AERMOD Plume Dispersion Software
  • ArcGIS (ESRI) Geographic Information System Software

Radon Measurement

  • 4 femto-Tech Continuous Radon Monitors
  • 1 Rad 7 Continuous Radon Monitor
  • 1 Pylon Working Level Radon Monitor
  • 75 Electret-Passive Environmental Radon Monitors
  • 2 Ludlum uR Meters

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