Odor as an Aid to Chemical Safety: Odor Thresholds Compared with Threshold Limit Values and Volatilities for 214 Industrial Chemicals in Air and Water Dilution
Odor as an Aid to Chemical Safety: Odor Thresholds Compared with Threshold Limit Values and Volatilities for 214 Industrial Chemicals in Air and Water Dilution
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DOI：
10.1002/jat.2550030603
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发表时间：
1983-12-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Hautala, Earl
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作者：
Amoore, John E.;Hautala, Earl
本白皮书中的信息主要面向工业健康和安全以及空气和水污染方面的专家，他们需要关于潜在危险化学蒸气和气体气味阈值的定量数据。这些文献在很大程度上是无组织的，已经对214种化合物进行了审查，并浓缩成基于一致单元的表格。包括25℃时的挥发性、溶解性、电离度和水-气分配比的数据。根据目前推荐的阈值限值(TLV)，计算出每种化合物的安全稀释系数和气味安全系数。给出了这些化学品的空气和水稀释的等效数据。现有的数据总结了人群中气味敏感度的变异性，以及引起注意力分散的人或正在睡觉的人反应所需的气味浓度增加。这些信息被简化为校准图表，可用于估计气味蒸汽的相对可探测性、警告潜力和唤醒能力。每种化合物都被分配了从A到E的字母分类，以表明化合物的气味可能提供的安全边际(如果有)，以警告其阈值正在被超过。
The body of information in this paper is directed to specialists in industrial health and safety, and air and water pollution, who need quantitative data on the odor thresholds of potentially hazardous chemical vapors and gases. The literature, largely unorganized, has been reviewed for 214 compounds and condensed into tables based on consistent units. Data on the volatility, solubility, ionization and water-air distribution ratio at 25 O C are included. From the currently recommended threshold limit value (TLV), a safe dilution factor and an odor safety factor are calculated for each compound. The equivalent data are presented for both air and water dilutions of the chemicals. Available data are summarized on the variability of odor sensitivities in the population, and the increased odor concentrations that are required to elicit responses from persons whose attention is distracted, or who are sleeping. This information is reduced to calibration charts that may be used to estimate the relative detectability, warning potential and rousing capacity of the odorous vapors. Each compound has been assigned a letter classification, from A to E, to indicate the margin of safety, if any, that may be afforded by the odor of the compound as a warning that its threshold limit value is being exceeded.