WG4: Protocols & Standardisation Methods
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WG4 will deal with procedures, protocols and pre-standardised methods for low-cost sensor-systems applied to AQC. These include:
- Performance of partner-developed and available sensors/instruments for measuring air pollutants (regulated in Air Quality Directive 2008/50/EC);
- Study and assessment of protocols and methods devoted to low-cost gas sensors for AQC with definitions of guidelines for standards;
- Air-quality case-studies;
- Benchmarking with official methods;
- Round-robin of procedures and tests for AQC sensors;
- Reference-materials for AQC;
- Assessment of gas sensors in well-characterized (industrial and natural) environmental situations;
- Indoor air quality monitoring;
- Assessment of physical and chemical characterization of nanomaterials and ambient particles;
- Assessment of measurement and exposure metrics in view of future use in ambient air quality assessment.
Originality of this COST Action consists in the definition of a new measuring paradigm of air pollution real-time pre-standardised control based on a new generation of low-cost ubiquitous smart microsensors integrating functional nanomaterials for a distributed map of urban air-pollution at high-resolution. Actually, the AQC sensors are not yet standardized in certified procedures of measurements and protocols. Currently, AQC is performed by standardised, expensive and bulky analyzers.
These depicted main research tasks will be studied via qualified manpower of the COST Action partners and investigated by their existing operational systems such as:
- Air quality analysis laboratories: mass spectrometers (MS), gas-chromatography (GC),
infrared (IR), visible (VIS), ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometry, thermal desorption systems, cooled (cryogenic) injection systems, etc.;
- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and particulate matter (PM) samplers;
- Calibration facilities for gas sensors, samplers and air-quality instruments;
- Particle sampling and measurement techniques (airborne): SMPS, FMPS, ESP, APS, TEOM, AMS, NSAM, minidisc, etc.;
- Particle analysis techniques: TXRF, SEM-EDX, HRSEM, EPR.
Objectives
- Assessment of characterisation, quality assurance, quality control, property database,
standardization of AQC gas sensors;
- Assessment of testing, standard operation procedures, safety aspects for AQC gas sensors;
- Evaluation of case-studies in round-robin testing of AQC gas sensors in odour-pollution, air pollution,
indoor control, outdoor control;
- Report/Recommendations of the new sensing AQC technologies for the future strategies in
the EU research programmes of air quality monitoring and environmental management;
- Report on scaling up, applications and commercialisation of AQC gas sensors.
- Evaluation Summary of AQC gas sensors performance through validation for selected case
studies of environmental monitoring in the air-quality plans;
- Overview of the current state-of-the-art on regulations, protocols and standards of the nanosensors
based AQC: possibilities of procedures extended to the AQC sensors;
- Recommendations/Guidelines for the validation methodology/protocol of AQC gas sensors;
- Recommendations on environmental applications of low-cost AQC gas sensors.
Chair 
| BRYNTSE Ingrid
Lab.: CTO group
Org.: SenseAir AB
Country: Sweden
Tel. +46c653717799 - Fax +46 653717789
e-Mail ingrid.bryntse@senseair.com Web http://www.senseair.se
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Vice-Chair 
| Dr. Nicolas Moser
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Members 
| CONRAD Thorsten
Lab.:
Org.: 3S GmbH
Country: Germany
Tel. +49 681 9100350 - Fax +49 681 9100359
e-Mail conrad@3S–ing.de Web http://www.3S–ing.de
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| MOSER Nicolas
Lab.:
Org.: SGXSensortech S.A.
Country: Switzerland
Tel. +41 (0)32 732 16 89 - Fax +41 (0)32 732 16 99
e-Mail nicolas.moser@sgxsensortech.com Web http://www.sgxsensortech.com
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| ORTAR Liad
Lab.:
Org.: AirBase Systems
Country: Israel
Tel. +972 584873737 - Fax
e-Mail liad@myairbase.com Web http://www.myairbase.com
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| SAFFELL John
Lab.:
Org.: Alphasense Limited
Country: United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1376556700 - Fax +44 1376 335899
e-Mail jrs@alphasense.com Web http://www.alphasense.com
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| REIMRINGER Wolfhard
Lab.:
Org.: 3S GmbH
Country: Germany
Tel. +49 681 958286 14 - Fax +49 681 958286 11
e-Mail reimringer@3S–ing.de Web http://www.3S–ing.de
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| THOLE Ulf
Lab.:
Org.: SenSiC AB
Country: Sweden
Tel. +46 708176804 - Fax
e-Mail ulf.thole@sensic.se Web http://www.sensic.se
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| GROZDANOVSKI Ljupcho
Lab.: Air Quality Calibration Laboratory
Org.: Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning
Country: Republic of Macedonia
Tel. +389 76 455 393 - Fax +389 2 3220 165
e-Mail lj.grozdanovski@moepp.gov.mk Web www.moepp.gov.mk; http://airquality.moepp.gov.mk/
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| ATANASOV Igor
Lab.: Central Laboratory of Environment
Org.: Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning
Country: Republic of Macedonia
Tel. +389 76 446 961 - Fax +389 2 3220 165
e-Mail i.atanasov@moepp.gov.mk Web http://www.airquality.moepp.gov.mk
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| TEIXEIRA Joao Paulo
Lab.: Environmental Health Department
Org.: National Institute of Health
Country: Portugal
Tel. +351 918707109 - Fax
e-Mail jpft12@gmail.com Web http://www.insa.pt
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| KARPE Philippe
Lab.: ETHERA
Org.: ETHERA
Country: France
Tel. +33 1 69 08 37 44 - Fax +33 4 76 22 18 85
e-Mail philippe.karpe@ethera–labs.com Web http://www.ethera–labs.fr
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| ROSSIGNOL Jerome
Lab.: Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne UMR 6303 –GERM
Org.: Université de Bourgogne
Country: France
Tel. +33 3 80 39 60 46 - Fax +33 3 80 39 61 82
e-Mail jerome.rossignol@u–bourgogne.fr Web http://icb.u–bourgogne.fr/GERM
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| CVETKOVIĆ Anka
Lab.: Laboratory for human ecology and ecotoxicology
Org.: Institute of Public Health of Belgrade
Country: Serbia
Tel. +38163 8511614 - Fax +31811 324 1212
e-Mail anka.filipovic@gmail.com Web http://www.zdravlje.org.rs?????
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| FRKA MILOSAVLJEVIC Sanja
Lab.: Laboratory for physical chemistry of aquatic systems
Org.: Ru?jer Boškovi? Institute
Country: Croatia
Tel. +385 1 4681 105 - Fax +385 1 4680 242
e-Mail frka@irb.hr Web http://www.irb.hr/eng/People/Sanja–Frka–Milosavljevic
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| DE GENNARO Gianluigi
Lab.: LABORATORY of ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY – DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Org.: UNIVERSITY OF BARI ’ALDO MORO’
Country: Italy
Tel. +39 0805442023 - Fax +39 0805442023
e-Mail gianluigi.degennaro@uniba.it Web http://www.uniba.it
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| DEMARINIS LOIOTILE Annamaria
Lab.: LABORATORY of ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY – DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Org.: UNIVERSITY OF BARI ’ALDO MORO’
Country: Italy
Tel. +39 0805442023 - Fax +39 0805543254
e-Mail annamaria.demarinis@uniba.it Web http://www.uniba.it
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| ROMAIN Anne–Claude
Lab.: Polluted atmsopheres
Org.: ULg
Country: Belgium
Tel. +32 63230859 - Fax +32 230800
e-Mail acromain@ulg.ac.be Web http://www.campusarlon.ulg.ac.be/
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| JOVASEVIC–STOJANOVIC Milena
Lab.: Radiaton and Environmental Protection Department
Org.: Vinča Insitute of Nuclear Sciences
Country: Serbia
Tel. +381 113408695 - Fax +381 116458
e-Mail mjovst@vinca.rs Web http://www.vinca.rs
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