Aerosol metrology for atmospheric science and air quality

Short Name: AEROMET, Project Number: 16ENV07

Improved measurements will support the enforcement and introduction of air pollution regulation to protect European citizens

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Coordinator: Burkhard Beckhoff (PTB)

Accurate measurements of airborne particles are vital for enforcing EU air quality regulations aimed at protecting human health and understanding and limiting the effects of climate change.

Current methods for the measurement of mass of PM10 and PM2.5 (airborne particles less than 10 and 2.5 microns in diameter, respectively) specified by the Air Quality Directive need improving to ensure results given by instruments based on different working principles (such as gravimetric and optical measurement) can be compared.

In addition, knowledge of the size and number concentration of unregulated nanoscale ultra-fine particles (UFP) is needed as a prerequisite to any future regulatory limits.

 

This project will use results from EMRP project ENV02 PartEmission to support CEN standardization on EU guidelines for PM and UFP measurement by improving the uncertainty of particle mass, size and number concentration measurements.

It will also support the characterization of regulated components in airborne particles as needed by Europe’s air quality networks to better understand health risks, and local and global trends.

 

EMPIR project 19ENV08 AEROMET II builds on this work.

 

Facility for production of ambient-like model aerosols (PALMA) in the laboratory: application in the intercomparison of automated PM monitors with the reference gravimetric method
2021

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Quantification of Element Mass Concentrations in Ambient Aerosols by Combination of Cascade Impactor Sampling andMobile Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy
2021

Atmosphere

Observation of systematic deviations between Faraday cup aerosol electrometers for varying particle sizes and flowrates—results of the AEROMET FCAE workshop
2021

Metrologia

Towards a traceable enhancement factor in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
2020

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Statistics of a Sharp GP2Y Low-Cost Aerosol PM Sensor Output Signals
2020

Sensors

Experimental evaluation of the in-the-field capabilities of total-reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis to trace fine and ultrafine aerosol particles in populated areas
2020

Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy

Direct approach to determine the size setting error and size resolution of an optical particle counter
2020

Review of Scientific Instruments

Directed Self-Assembly of Polystyrene Nanospheres by Direct Laser-Writing Lithography
2020

Nanomaterials

Real-time pollen monitoring using digital holography
2020

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Interaction of nanoparticle properties and X-ray analytical techniques
2020

Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry

Facility for calibration of optical and condensation particle counters based on a turbulent aerosol mixing tube and a reference optical particle counter
2019

Review of Scientific Instruments

Reference-free grazing incidence x-ray fluorescence and reflectometry as a methodology for independent validation of x-ray reflectometry on ultrathin layer stacks and a depth-dependent characterization
2019

Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A

Calibration of optical particle counters: First comprehensive inter-comparison for particle sizes up to 5 μm and number concentrations up to 2 cm−3
2019

Metrologia

Experimental determination of line energies, line widths and relative transition probabilities of the Gadolinium L x-ray emission spectrum
2019

Metrologia

Mobility particle size spectrometers: Calibration procedures and measurement uncertainties
2017

Aerosol Science and Technology

Participating EURAMET NMIs and DIs

BAM (Germany)

CMI (Czechia)

DFM (Denmark)

INRiM (Italy)

LNE (France)

METAS (Switzerland)

NILU (Norway)

NPL (United Kingdom)

PTB (Germany)

Other Participants

Bruker Nano GmbH (Germany)
Centro de investigaciones energeticas, medioambientales y tecnologicas (Spain)
Energiatudományi Kutatóközpont (Hungary)
FORCE Technology (Denmark)
Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (France)
Institut Jožef Stefan (Slovenia)
Leibniz Institut fuer Troposphaerenforschung e.V. (Germany)
Lunds Universitet (Sweden)
National Technical University of Athens - NTUA (Greece)
Teknologisk Institut (Denmark)
Universita Degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale ""Amedeo Avogadro"" (Italy)
Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale (Italy)

Information

Programme
EMPIR
Field
Environment
Status
completed
Call
2016
Duration
2017-2020
Researcher Grants
1
Project website
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