Personal Air-Pollution Monitoring Devices

Abstract
The development of monitoring devices that can be operated while attached to an ambulatory individual is discussed. Two have been selected for more detailed study and development. A preliminary report of tests performed with one instrument equipped with impregnated silica-gel tubes and controlled air flow for collecting and measuring nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, total hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide, together with a filter disc to capture particulates, is offered for discussion. The first phase of development of a second device using silica-gel pack from which the gases could be desorbed and analyzed by gas chromatography is also presented. The schematic assembly of components is described for each of these devices.