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Development of Interlaboratory Comparison Test Samples and Reference Materials for the Quality Assurance of Air Composition Measurements

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This article presents an approach to the development of interlaboratory comparison test samples and respective reference materials for use in the metrological assurance of measurements of hazardous substances in the ambient air. Solid and liquid sorbents, as well as air filters, were used in experiments. Measurement methods comprised photometry, atomic absorption spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry. An optimized algorithm is presented for developing multi-purpose test samples that can be used for the metrological assurance of a large number of methods for analysing ambient air quality. The described approach has been used to develop test samples for laboratory proficiency testing and respective reference materials, which can be used in validation of measurement techniques for analysing ambient air quality, calibration of measurement instruments, as well as in the internal and external quality control of results obtained during ambient air quality measurements.

Keywords

  • Interlaboratory comparison (ILC)
  • ILC provider
  • ILC samples
  • Air media
  • Atmospheric air
  • Workplace air
  • Industrial emissions to the atmosphere
  • Laboratory test sample
  • Reference materials

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    SPS 176-2013 State primary standard of the units of mass (molar) fraction and mass (molar) concentration of a component in liquid and solid substances and materials based on coulometry//Ural Scientific Research Institute for Metrology (UNIIM) [site]. https://uniim.ru/gauge_fgup_uniim/.

Abbreviations

ILC:

Interlaboratory comparison

RM:

Reference materials

SPS:

State primary standard

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The authors express their sincere gratitude to the anonymous reviewers and the Editor for their highly professional and benevolent attitude shown in the preparation of our materials for publication.

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  1. Ural Scientifc Research Institute for Metrology (UNIIM), Yekaterinburg, Russia

    Anna M. Bogacheva, Olga B. Ponomareva & Yuliya V. Kanaeva

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Correspondence to Anna M. Bogacheva .

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  1. Ural Scientific Research Institute for Metrology, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    Dr. Sergei V. Medvedevskikh

  2. Ural Scientific Research Institute for Metrology, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    Olga N. Kremleva

  3. A.P. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

    Dr. Irina E. Vasil’eva

  4. Ural Scientific Research Institute for Metrology, Ekaterinburg, Russia

    Dr. Egor P. Sobina

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Bogacheva, A.M., Ponomareva, O.B., Kanaeva, Y.V. (2020). Development of Interlaboratory Comparison Test Samples and Reference Materials for the Quality Assurance of Air Composition Measurements. In: Medvedevskikh, S., Kremleva, O., Vasil’eva, I., Sobina, E. (eds) Reference Materials in Measurement and Technology. RMMT 2018. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32534-3_1

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