Laboratoire Mobile d'Analyse de l'Air

OVERVIEW
Acronym MASSALYA-PTA
Partner institution

Aix-Marseille Université





Description

MASSALYA is an instrumented mobile laboratory (placed in a truck) for the analysis of aerosols and volatile organic compounds that are present in indoor and outdoor atmospheres.

SCIENTIFIC DOMAIN
Scientific domain

PE10_1 - Atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric composition, air pollution - Earth System Science





 

PE9_13 - Astronomical instrumentation and data, e.g. telescopes, detectors, techniques, archives, analyses - Universe Sciences





 

PE4_18 - Environment chemistry - Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences





Keywords

Atmosphere





 

analysis





 

aerosol





 

volatil organic compounds





 

air quality





INFRASTRUCTURE
Remote access details

MASSALYA is open to scientific communities of both the academic and private sectors, upon request.

AMENITIES
Equipment

MASSALYA is equipped with numerous on-line analyzers for chemical and physical characterization of both aerosol and gaseous phases of the atmospheres. The equipments can be used via the truck itself so to study the outdoor atmosphere; they can also be easily removed in order to be placed in confined atmospheres.