Design of the mobile ambient air quality testing laboratory

Abstract

A mobile ambient air quality testing laboratory (MobLab) for both stationary and mobile measurements of particles and gases in ambient air was developed. Major efforts were made to design a vehicle, power supply, air conditioning system and the instrumental setup. The instruments on board are able to analyze the ambient air particles (PM10, PM2.5) concentration, trace gas concentrations (CO, SO2, NO, NO2, VOC, O3) and meteorological parameters (temperature, relative humidity, pressure, wind, solar radiation, precipitation). All used measurements are either based on reference methods or the equivalence ones. MobLab also contains a data acquisition, handling and remote sensing tools.