Combined single-drop and rotating drum dustiness test of fine to nanosize powders using a small drum

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A dustiness test has been developed that performs both a single-drop and a continuous rotation test using a 6-g sample. Tests were completed on pigment-grade and ultrafine TiO2, two grades of corundum (Aloxite), yttrium-stabilized zirconia (Y-zirconia) granules, fumed silica, goethite, talc and bentonite. The generated particles were quantified by counting and sizing at 1-s time resolution using the TSI Fast Mobility Particle Sizer and the TSI Aerodynamic Particle Sizer and by collecting the particles on a filter for weighing. The method generated reproducible amounts and size distributions of particles. The size distributions had two more or less separated size modes >0.9 μm and in addition all materials except TiO2 pigment-grade and Aloxite F1200 generated a size mode in the range from ∼100 to ∼220 nm. Pigment-grade TiO2 had the lowest dustiness and ultrafine TiO2 the highest dustiness as measured by particle number for both the single-drop and rotation test and as measured by mass for both tests combined. The difference was a factor of ∼300. Three types of dust generation rate time profiles were observed; brief initial burst (talc, both grades of corundum), decaying rate during rotation period (fumed silica, TiO2 ultrafine and pigment grade, bentonite) and constant rate (Y-zirconia, goethite). These profile types were in agreement with the differences in the ratio of amount of particles generated during the single drop to the amount generated during the single-drop and rotation test combined. The ratio ranged a factor ∼40. The new test method enables a characterization of dustiness with relevance to different user scenarios. © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Occupational Hygiene Society.

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Schneider, T., & Jensen, K. A. (2008). Combined single-drop and rotating drum dustiness test of fine to nanosize powders using a small drum. Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 52(1), 23–34. https://doi.org/10.1093/annhyg/mem059

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