METHOD

Performance of the original workstation for aerosol tests under controlled conditions

About authors

1 Translational Biomedicine Laboratory,
N. F. Gamaleya Federal Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow

2 ZAO Laminar Systems, Miass, Chelyabinsk oblast

3 Laboratory of Population Variability Mechanisms in Pathogenic Microorganisms,
N. F. Gamaleya Federal Research Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow

4 Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow

Correspondence should be addressed: Denis A. Kleymenov
Gamalei 18, Moscow, 123098; ur.relbmar@tel00001, gro.ayelamag@vonemyelk.a.sined

About paper

Funding: this work was supported by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation as part of the project The National System for Chemical and Biological Security of the Russian Federation (2015-2020) and by the Ministry of Education and Science as part of the project RFMEFI60117X0018.

Received: 2018-08-06 Accepted: 2018-08-31 Published online: 2018-10-17
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Fig. 1. Laminar-C-1.5 Class III Biosafety Enclosure (380.150.01)
Fig. 2. The aerosol sampling device (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI)
Fig. 3. Dynamics of air decontamination from 1 to 10 μm particles (A – F) in the Laminar-C-1.5 Class III Biosafety Enclosure after 5 minutes of aerosol generation in different operating modes
Table 1. Integrity tests of HEPA filters installed in the chamber
Table 2. Rate of dust particle collection by the aerosol sampler (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI)
Table 3. Efficiency of polydisperse aerosol collection