Validating new source performance standards

Journal Article · Fri Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1977 · Environ. Sci. Technol.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/es60130a009· OSTI ID:7086996

Midgett, M R

Experience has shown that before a stationary source test method can be successfully collaboratively tested, it must be described in sufficient detail to ensure that each collaborator uses exactly the same sampling and analysis procedures. Further, it must give repeatable results when one laboratory analyzes the same sample several times. This repeatability can be assured only through intensive method evaluation, which now constitutes a large portion of the total program. This evaluation, followed by collaborative testing, is resulting in more fully described methods of known precision and accuracy, and of proven reliability. Collaborative tests are made on velocity, gas analysis, determination of particulate matter emissions, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfuric acid mist, carbon monoxide and opacity at stationary sources.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC
• OSTI ID: 7086996
• Journal Information: Environ. Sci. Technol.; (United States), Journal Name: Environ. Sci. Technol.; (United States) Vol. 11:7; ISSN ESTHA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AEROSOL MONITORING
AIR POLLUTION
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
GAS ANALYSIS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INDUSTRY
INORGANIC ACIDS
MEASURING METHODS
MONITORING
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN OXIDES
OPACITY
OPTICAL PROPERTIES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
POLLUTION
SAMPLING
STANDARDIZATION
STATIONARY POLLUTANT SOURCES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES
SULFURIC ACID
VELOCITY
WASTES