The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of temperature and humidity on the measured Particulate Matter (PM) concentrations recorded by PMS5003T, a low-cost light scattering type measuring tool. A regression analysis was performed on the ratio of PM concentrations measured by the light scattering method and the beta-ray absorption method according to temperature and humidity in an outdoor environment. As the temperature decreased, the PM concentration ratio increased, and this tendency intensified below 0oC. As the humidity increased, the PM concentration ratio increased, but the effect was less than the temperature effect. The coefficients of determination for temperature and humidity were R2 = 0.325 and 0.003, respectively, and the effects of temperature and humidity on the measured values w ere formulated and compensated for. As a result of the compensation, R2, relative precision, accuracy and RMSE improved from 0.927 to 0.958, from 91.183% to 96.651%, from 31.383% to 74.058%, and from 13.517 μg/m³ to 6.690 μg/m³, respectively. Finally, results from this study indicate that the reliability of the low-cost light scattering type PM sensor can be improved by applying the temperature and humidity compensation method.

A three-staged cascade virtual impactor was designed, fabricated, and used as aerosol classifier in a dust sensor module. The dust sensor module consisted of the impactor, three commercial dust sensors, and four pumps. For the design of the impactor, three cut-off diameters of 2.5 ㎛, 2.0 ㎛, and 1.5 ㎛ were selected. Then three nozzle widths were determined from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation with the three designed cut-off diameters. </br>Laboratory generated PM2.5 aerosols classified into each of three sizes, via the fabricated impactor, entered a dust sensor from which voltage signals were detected due to particle scattering by a laser diode in the sensor. The voltage signal data from the three sensors were converted to number concentrations of the dust particles utilizing correlation equations obtained from separately performed experiments. The number concentrations were in agreement with those obtained by aerodynamic particle sizer (APS).