This Technical Specification lays down the minimum performance requirements and test procedures for the selection of appropriate automated continuous measurement systems (AMS) for particulate matter (type approval). This includes the evaluation of its equivalence with the reference method. Further, this Technical Specification describes minimum requirements for ongoing quality assurance - quality control (QA/QC) of AMS deployed in the field. These requirements are necessary to ensure that uncertainties of measured concentrations are kept within the required limits during extended periods of continuous monitoring in the field, and include procedures for maintenance, calibration and control checks. Additional procedures are described that determine whether an instrument's equivalence to the reference method is maintained through possible pollution climate changes, over periods longer than five years. Lastly, this Technical Specification describes requirements and procedures for the treatment and validation of raw measurement data that are to be used for the assembly of daily or yearly average concentration values.
PD CEN/TS 16450:2013 Referenced Document
EN 12341:1998 Air Quality - Determination of the PM10 Fraction of Suspended Particulate Matter - Reference Method and Field Test Procedure to Demonstrate Reference Equivalence of Measurement Methods
PD CEN/TS 16450:2013 history
2013PD CEN/TS 16450:2013 Ambient air - Automated measuring systems for the measurement of the concentration of particulate matter (PM10; PM2,5)