Guidelines for development of a quality assurance program. Measuring pollutants for which national ambient air quality standards have been promulgated (final report)

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1973

OSTI ID:7364283

Smith, F; Nelson, Jr, A C

Guidelines for measurement of pollutants for which National Ambient Air Quality Standards have been promulgated are presented along with background information directly applicable to the Management Manual sections of field documents written for each method. Pollutants and methods of sampling and analysis covered include: sulfur dioxide (spectrophotometric pararosaniline method), photochemical oxidants as ozone (chemiluminescence), suspended particulates (high-volume method), nitrogen dioxide (chemiluminescence), and carbon monoxide (nondispersive infrared). Topics covered under background information for field documents include: the selection of auditing schemes, cost implications, and data quality assessment. Appendices are provided for computer simulation, sensitivity analysis, frequency distributions, estimation of the mean and variance of various comparisons of interest, and control charts. (Air Pollut. Abstr.)

• Research Organization: Research Triangle Inst., Durham, N.C. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7364283
• Report Number(s): PB-237351; EPA-R-4-73-028-e
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AEROSOLS
AIR POLLUTION
AIR QUALITY
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON MONOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
COLLOIDS
COMPUTERS
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DISPERSIONS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECONOMICS
HYDROCARBONS
MANAGEMENT
MANUALS
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
NITROGEN DIOXIDE
NITROGEN OXIDES
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PARTICLES
PHOTOCHEMICAL OXIDANTS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION REGULATIONS
QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
REGULATIONS
SAMPLING
SIMULATION
SOLS
STANDARDS
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR DIOXIDE
SULFUR OXIDES