Evaluation of Performance of Inexpensive Laser Based PM2.5 Sensor Monitors for Typical Indoor and Outdoor Hotspots of South Koreaopen access
- Authors
- Kim, Sungroul; Park, Sujung; Lee, Jeongeun
- Issue Date
- 1-May-2019
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- PM2; 5; sensor; correction; pan frying; secondhand smoke; urban traffic
- Citation
- Applied Sciences-basel, v.9, no.9
- Journal Title
- Applied Sciences-basel
- Volume
- 9
- Number
- 9
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/4535
- DOI
- 10.3390/app9091947
- ISSN
- 2076-3417
- Abstract
- Featured Application In consideration of relatively stable outcomes with the application of a correction factor for relative humidity, recently introduced inexpensive real-time monitors (IRMs), ESCORTAIR (ESCORT, Seoul, Korea) or PurpleAir (PA) (PurpleAir U.S.A.), our study supports their usage in PM2.5 monitoring for various urban hotspots. Abstract Inexpensive (<$300) real-time particulate matter monitors (IRMs), using laser as a light source, have been introduced for use with a Wi-Fi function enabling networking with a smartphone. However, the information of measurement error of these inexpensive but convenient IRMs are still limited. Using ESCORTAIR (ESCORT, Seoul, Korea) and PurpleAir (PA) (PurpleAir U.S.A.), we evaluated the performance of these two devices compared with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal Equivalent Monitoring (FEM) devices, that is, GRIMM180 (GRIMM Aerosol, Germany) for the indoor measurement of pork panfrying or secondhand tobacco smoking (SHS) and Beta-ray attenuation monitor (BAM) (MetOne, Grants Pass, OR) for outdoor measurement at the national particulate matter (PM2.5) monitoring site near an urban traffic hotspot in Daejeon, South Korea, respectively. The PM2.5 concentrations measured by ESCORTAIR and PA were strongly correlated to FEM (r = 0.97 and 0.97 from indoor pan frying; 0.92 and 0.86 from indoor SHS; 0.85 and 0.88 from outdoor urban traffic hotspot). The two IRMs showed that PM2.5 mass concentrations were increased with increased outdoor relative humidity (RH) levels. However, after applying correction factors for RH, the Median (Interquartile range) of difference compared to FEM was (14.5 (6.123.5) %) for PA and 16.3 (8.5-28.0) % for ESCORTAIR, supporting their usage in the home or near urban hotspots.
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