Exposure assessment during paint spraying and drying using PTR-ToF-MS
Srdjan Sabic, David Bell, Bojan Gasic, Kaspar Schmid, Thomas Peter, Claudia Marcolli · 2024
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Description
Srdjan Sabic and co-authors measure the gases workers breathe while spraying paint and while it dries, in a study whose head gives the year as 2023. Spray work exposes staff to solvents that can harm health, and safety models try to predict those levels. The team use a fast instrument that reads gas levels once per second.
They spray metal plates outdoors and dry them indoors under varied airflow. During spraying, the fast-evaporating solvents acetone and ethanol dominated, and wind made levels swing. During drying with poor airflow, levels of slower solvents built up over hours and could pass the spraying peak. Two of three safety models gave fair ranges for spraying, while one overshot badly for the fast solvents. The team stress that drying time must count in exposure checks, a step most models still skip.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Srdjan Sabic, David Bell, Bojan Gasic, Kaspar Schmid, Thomas Peter, Claudia Marcolli |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 51 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |