BS ISO 16000-4:2011 BSl Standards Publication Indoor air Part 4: Determination of formaldehyde - Diffusive sampling method bsi. ..making excellence a habit BRITISH STANDARD BS ISO 16000-4:2011 National foreword This British Standard is the UK implementation of IS0 16000-4:2011. It supersedes BS ISO 16000-4:2004 which is withdrawn. The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical CommitteeEH/2/3,Ambientatmospheres. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application. @BSI2011 ISBN9780580686870 ICS 13.040.20 Compliance witha British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations. This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31December2011. Amendments issued since publication Date Text affected BS ISO 16000-4:2011 INTERNATIONAL ISO STANDARD 16000-4 Second edition 2011-12-01 Indoor air - Part 4: Determination of formaldehyde - Diffusive sampling method Air interieur- Partie4:DosageduformaldehydeMethodeparéchantillonnage diffusif Reference number ISO 16000-4:2011(E) @ISO 2011 BSISO 16000-4:2011 ISO16000-4:2011(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ? ISO2011 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either Iso at the address below or Iso's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Casepostale 56.CH-1211Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii @ ISO 2011 - All rights reserved BSISO16000-4:2011 ISO16000-4:2011(E) Contents Page Foreword. iv Introduction .vi 1 Scope. 2 Normativereferences.. 3 Principle . 4 Reagents. 5 Apparatus 6 Sampling .. 7 Procedure. 7.1 Desorptionandsamplepreparation. 7.2 7.3 HPLC analysis...... 7.4 Determinationofsampleconcentration 7.5 Storage.... 7.6 Determination ofdesorptionefficiency. 8 Calculation.. 8.1 MassofDNPH-formaldehydeonthefilter 8.2 Concentrationofformaldehyde inair 6 Precisionand uncertaintyofthemethod.. 10 Qualityassurance/qualitycontrol. 11 Test report. Annex A (informative) Typical designs of diffusive samplers. Bibliography.... @ ISO 2011 - All rights reserved ili BSISO 16000-4:2011 ISO16000-4:2011(E) Foreword Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies nternationalElectrotechnicalCommission(lEC)onallmattersofelectrotechnicalstandardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/lEC Directives, Part 2 adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an rights. IsO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO16000-4waspreparedbyTechnicalCommitteeISO/TC146,Air quality,SubcommitteeSC 6,Indoorair. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (IsO 16000-4:2004), which has been technically revised, especially 7.2. Iso 16000 consists of the following parts, under the general title Indoor air: —Part1:Generalaspectsofsamplingstrategy Part 2: Sampling strategy forformaldehyde Part 3: Determination of formaldehyde and other carbonyl compounds in indoor air and test chamber air-Activesamplingmethod Part 4: Determination of formaldehyde-Diffusive sampling method Part5:Samplingstrategyforvolatileorganiccompounds(vOCs) Tenax TA sorbent, thermaldesorption and gas chromatography using MS or MS-FID Part7:Sampling strategyfordeterminationofairborneasbestos fibre concentrations Part 9: Determination of the emission of volatile organic compounds from building products and furnishingEmissiontestchambermethod Part 1o: Determination of the emission of vola