AirPass: a Cutting-edge Sampling Technology for Organic Compounds in Air

Monitoring organic compounds in air, including indoor air (domestic sampling), ambient air and exhaust gases is becoming increasingly important to properly address the impacts of biogenic and anthropogenic released species on humans and ecology. At present, our knowledge on emission and emission rates is limited. One of the main reasons is the relatively complex sampling procedure. Moreover, samples have to be taken by qualified technicians making air analysis expensive. One of the major objectives of our recent research in air monitoring was to simplify the sampling procedure such that more samples can be taken and analysed to improve our knowledge of the fate of organic carbon in the atmosphere. The sampling system AirPass is presented and its features illustrated.