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Article Dans Une Revue Annals of Work Exposures and Health Année : 2024

Validation of krypton as a new tracer gas for the standardization tests of collective and individual protection systems

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Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is the reference tracer gas in many international standards for characterizing respiratory protective devices (RPD), fume cupboards, building ventilations, and other installations. However, due to its significant impact on global warming, its use is becoming increasingly restrictive. Krypton 84 (Kr) was chosen to be a possible replacement based on theoretical and practical criteria for the properties that a substitute gas should possess. While compliance with these criteria is generally sufficient to guarantee the reliability of the choice, it is essential in the case of widespread use such as a standard to validate experimentally that this tracer has the same behavior as SF6. In this regard, numerous tests have been carried out to characterize the face leakage of RPD and the rupture of containment of fume cupboards performance tests under different operating conditions. The results obtained are identical with both tracers and lead us to propose the use of Kr as a new reference gas in standards for which SF6 was used.
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hal-04408785 , version 1 (22-01-2024)

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Elise Cabaset, Mathieu Marchal, Audrey Santandrea, Olivier Herbinet, Emmanuel Belut, et al.. Validation of krypton as a new tracer gas for the standardization tests of collective and individual protection systems. Annals of Work Exposures and Health, 2024, 68 (1), pp.86-96. ⟨10.1093/annweh/wxad071⟩. ⟨hal-04408785⟩
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