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Effect of electron beam irradiation on filtering facepiece respirators integrity and filtering efficiency Cover

Effect of electron beam irradiation on filtering facepiece respirators integrity and filtering efficiency

Nukleonika
Volume 67 (2022): Issue 2 (June 2022)
By: Dagmara Chmielewska,  Łukasz Werner,  Urszula Gryczka and  Wojciech Migdał  
Open Access
|Jun 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nuka-2022-0002 | Journal eISSN: 1508-5791 | Journal ISSN: 0029-5922
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Language: English
Page range: 23 - 33
Submitted on: Mar 23, 2022
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Accepted on: May 16, 2022
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Published on: Jun 11, 2022
Published by: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Electron beam irradiation,
Decontamination,
PP filtering facepiece respirators,
Industrial applications,
Processing technologies,
Nanoparticles filtration
Related subjects:
Chemistry,
Nuclear chemistry,
Physics,
Astronomy and astrophysics,
Physics, other

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