The ESLI Challenge: It’s About the Requirements

Paul Gardner

U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USA 

Flow based oxygen leak detection system in closed circuit self-contained breathing apparatus

Prakash Chapain, Omar Bekdash, and Arthur Johnson

Bioengineering Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Prediction of the service life time of cartridges for personal protection: Discussion on the pertinence of 3 models

R. Chauveaua, G. Grévillota, S. Marsteaub, and C. Vallièresa

Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés – CNRS – ENSIC, Nancy CEDEX, France
Laboratoire de Filtration et d’Adsorption-INRS, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Conformity Assessment Standards – A Necessity to Support an ISO Respirator Protective Device Standard

Richard W. Metzler

Richard W. Metzler Inc., Houston, PA USA 

Reuse of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go Next?

Ronald E. Shaffer and Edward M. Fisher

National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 

Suitable chemical cartridges against gaseous substances generated from the solutions used for preservative treatment

Saki Tateishi, Norikazu Kurano, Meguru Inai and Hiroshi Yamada

Shigematsu Works Co., Tokyo, Japan

Nanoparticle penetration through filter media and through face seal leakage of N95 filtering facepiece respirators

Samy Rengasamyand Benjamin C. Eimer

Policy and Standard Development Branch, National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh PA USA
URS Corp., Pittsburgh PA USA 

Use of Control Banding Methods in Respirator Selection for Biohazards

Simon Smith

3M Canada Company, OH&ESD, Brockville, Ontario, Canada 

Service life of respirator cartridges with organic vapors: two approaches for a better understanding

Stephanie Marsteau, Bruno Galland

Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité (INRS), Vandœuvre-les-Nancy, France 

Future Designs for Low Burden Respiratory Protection

Suzanne Pelfrey

Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK 

Extending the Perception of Speech Intelligibility in Respiratory Protection

Varun Kapoor

Avon Protection Systems, Melksham, Wiltshire, UK 

Respirator Testing Standards and Physiology
A review of 42 CFR pt. 84 Respirator Test Standards and the Physiological Responses to Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in the Breathing Environment

W. Jon Williams

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 

A History and Overview of ISO Respiratory Standards

William Newcomb

National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 

Performance Evaluation of an Elastomeric Half-mask Respirator on a Manikin with Combustion Aerosol

Xinjian (Kevin) He, Michael Yermakov, Tiina Reponen, Sergey A. Grinshpun

Center for Health-Related Aerosol Studies, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA 

Inward Leakage and Protection Factor in Respirator Standards

Yang Xiao-bing, Fang He, Zhao Bin, Yang Bo, Ding Song-tao

China Research Institute of Chemical Defense; Beijing, PRC 

A Novel High Protection Exhalation Valve for Respirators

Yu-Mei Kuo, Che-Ming Yang, Sheng-Hsiu, Chun-Wah Chen, Chih-Chieh Chen

Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University

Computational Fluid Dynamics-Based Respirator Fit Prediction-A Pilot Study

Zhipeng Lei and Jingzhou (James) Yang

Human Centric Design Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA 

Development of Respirator Fit Test Panels for use in Respirator Testing Standards

Ziqing Zhuang

National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory,
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA