Evaluation of vost and semivost methods for halogenated compounds in the Clean Air Act amendments title III. Validation study at fossil fuel plant
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA), Title III, present a need for stationary source sampling and analytical methods for the list of 189 toxic air pollutants. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used VOST and SemiVOST sampling and analytical methods for a wide variety of volatile and semivolatile organic compounds in the past, but these methodologies have been completely validated for only a few of the organic compounds. The applicability of VOST and SemiVOST techniques to the halogenated organic compounds listed in Title III of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 has been evaluated under laboratory conditions for chromatographic separation, mass spectrometric response, sorbent recovery and analytical method detection limit. Dynamic spiking techniques for the sampling trains (both gaseous and liquid dynamic spiking) were also evaluated in the laboratory. In the study, the VOST and SemiVOST methods were evaluated in the field at a fossil fuel power plant. The source was selected to provide actual stationary source emissions with the compounds of interest present in trace amounts or not present. The paper presents the results of the field validation of the VOST and SemiVOST sampling and analytical methods.
- Research Organization:
- Radian Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 6408438
- Report Number(s):
- PB-93-180891/XAB; CNN: EPA-68-D1-0010
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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290300* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Environment
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120 -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AIR POLLUTION
AIR POLLUTION MONITORING
AIR POLLUTION MONITORS
AMENDMENTS
AROMATICS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CHROMATOGRAPHY
CONTROL
DATA
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
EVALUATED DATA
FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS
FUELS
GASEOUS WASTES
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
IMPLEMENTATION
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INFORMATION
LAWS
MASS SPECTROSCOPY
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MONITORING
MONITORS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTANTS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION LAWS
POWER PLANTS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUALITY CONTROL
SAMPLING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SPECTROMETERS
SPECTROSCOPY
STANDARDS
STATISTICAL DATA
TESTING
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
TOXICITY
TRACE AMOUNTS
TRAINS
US CLEAN AIR ACT
US EPA
US ORGANIZATIONS
USA
VALIDATION
VEHICLES
WASTES