Bioaerosols - Aerosols: Measurement, Dosimetry, and Health Effects - page 320

TABLE 12.2 (continued)
Bioaerosol Samplers

Sampling
Rate (L/min)

Sampler Principle of Operation Manufacturer/Supplier Commercial Name Application

Liquid impingers
All-glass impingers

Impingement into liquid 12.5 Ace Glass Inc.; Hampshire Glassware;

Millipore Corp.

All-Glass Impingers (AGI): AGI-4,
AGI-30

C, M, O

Three-stage impingers Impingement into liquid 10, 20, 50 Burkard Manufacturing Co., Ltd Burkard Multiple-Stage Liquid

Impinger

C, M, O

10, 20, 50 Hampshire Glassware Hampshire Glass Three-Stage Impinger C, M, O

Centrifugal samplers
Centrifugal agar
impactors

Impaction onto agar in plastic strips 40, 50, 100 Biotest Diagnostics Corp. Reuter Centrifugal Samplers (RCS):

Standard RCS, RCS Plus, RCS
Isolator, and RCS High Flow
Microbial Air Sampler

C

Wetted cyclone
samplers

Tangential impingement into liquid 50-55, 167,

500

Hampshire Glassware AEA Technology PLC Aerojet

Cyclones

C, M, O

167 F.W. Parrett Ltd. MicroBio MB3 Portable Cyclone C, M, O

100-800 MidWest Research Institute SpinCon High-Volume Cyclonic

Liquid Sampler

C, M, O

450 or 1000 InnovaTek Inc. BioGuardian Air Sampler C, M, O

300 Life Safety Systems OMNI 3000 C, M, O

1200 Bioscience International SAS Cyclone C, M, O

150 ICX Technologies BioXC C, M, O

325 Research International SASS 2300 C, M, O

40 Research International SASS 2400 C, M, O

150 ICX Technologies BioXC C, M, O

Dry cyclone sampler Reverse low cyclone 20 Burkard Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Burkard Cyclone Sampler H, M, O

Three-jet, tangential
sampler

Tangential dry impaction or
impingement into liquid

12.5 SKC Inc. BioSampler C, M, O

Wet electrostatic
precipitation sampler

Electrostatic deposition on collector tube
followed by washdown

300 Zaromb Research Corporation Portable High-Throughput Liquid

Assisted Air Sampler
(PHTLAAS-APASS2)

C, H, M, O