2025 Partisol Sequential Sampler

Deborah Bowe

Thermo Electron Corporation

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2025 Verification & Routine Maintenance

Verification• Ambient air temperature• Filter temperature• Ambient pressure• External leak check• Internal leak check• Flow rate

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2025 Verification & Routine Maintenance

Routine Maintenance• Filter cassettes: inspect damage or contamination

• Filter cassette magazines: Generally not necessary to clean, but if damaged certain parts can be replaced

• WINS impactor: In accordance with USEPA guidelines for PM2.5

• VSCC: In accordance with U.S. EPA guidelines

• External leak check: Every 4 weeks of use

• PM10 Inlet: Every 14 days of use

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2025 Verification & Routine Maintenance

Routine Maintenance• Particle trap filter: inspect 6 months, replace as

needed• V seals: Check and clean as needed• Rainhoods: Clean air screens 6 months• Batteries: Check every 6 months replace as

needed• Pump: Check every 6 months and rebuild; needed

average lifetime is 12 to 18 months

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2025 Plumbing Diagram

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2025 Backup Battery Check

Measure across 188_VBAT & PGND

Drops below 4.2VDC replace batteries

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2025 Pump CheckPressure Check: Quality Pump should give 40 psi on the exhaust

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Partisol 2000 Single Channel FRM Sampler

Deborah Bowe

Thermo Electron Corporation

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2000 FRM Audit Screen

Ambient temperature + 2 °C

Filter temperature + 2 °C

Ambient pressure + 10 mmHg

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2000 FRM External Leak CheckManual method

Record reading on gauge

30 seconds after pump

valve is closed

Should not drop more

than 8.5 inHg in 30

seconds. Corresponds to

80ml/min rate

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2000 FRM External Leak CheckSemi Automatic

Tolerance is 5” in 60 seconds

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2000 FRM Internal Leak Check

Manual: 8.5”Hg in 30 seconds

Semi-automatic: 9.3”Hg in 30 seconds

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Flow Schematic

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2000 FRM Flow Audit

Streamline Pro, FTS or Bios flow meter

+ 5% tolerance