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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/study.html?refINRS=EL2013-015
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/presentation.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FC2014-010
INRS and IFA have teamed up to compare their methods for sampling and analysis bitumen fumes. A bitumen fumes generation facility was developed to simultaneously expose six German and six French samplers to the same polluted atmosphere. The…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/presentation.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FC2014-029
Under the "Bitumen and paving" project which involved the INRS and professionals producers and users, the development of a method for sampling and analysing bitumen fumes was undertaken. This Communication aims to present the developments made…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/study.html?refINRS=EL2015-015
Road-surfacing, asphalting and weatherproofing work exposes workers to fumes that are complex mixes of hydrocarbons due to the bitumen or asphalt being worked while it is hot. The method MetroPol 123 recently developed at the Pollutants Metrology…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2015-176
The NIOSH 5042 method for the exposure assessment to the bitumen fumes during road paving or roofing operation has to be improved in order to take into account the vapour phase and to substitute benzene that is used as extraction solvant. A laboratory…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/study.html?refINRS=B.4%2F2.168
Quantifying semi-volatile organic aerosols in workplace air is a critical step in assessing employee exposure to these types of aerosols. Indeed, numerous organic compounds coexist both in particulate and gaseous form. However, the sampling…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2015-086
Benzene is frequently used to extract collected bitumen fumes from personal sampler substrates. However, this solvent is particularly dangerous because of its carcinogenicity (group 1 of IARC classification). Therefore, to prevent the exposure…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2015-034
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/presentation.html?refINRS=B.4%2F2.168%2FC2016-069
Assessing the exposure of workers to semi-volatile organic compound (SVOC) aerosols generally involves sampling an unstable diphasic chemical agent on a filter and a sorbent in series. Experiments at a macroscopic scale demonstrated that…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=C.7%2F1.041%2FP2009-017%2FNS285
This study falls within the scope of improving knowledge concerning evaporation of semi-volatile liquid aerosols collected on fibrous filters. Under these conditions, the aerosol evaporation phenomenon causes problems of safety, in particular…