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MEASUREMENT OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND CAPTURE EFFICIENCY
Citation:
Hunt, D. AND J. Randall. MEASUREMENT OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND CAPTURE EFFICIENCY. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/2-85/011.
Description:
This report reviews the feasibility considerations regarding each of several potential alternate approaches for determining capture efficiency and experimental testing of one approach, the liquid/gas-phase material balance. Two phases of experimental testing were conducted: laboratory and field investigations. The measured mean capture efficiencies for the field test were higher than expected (106.7% with a coefficient of variation 7.4%). At this time, there is no material balance methodology which is superior to the gas-phase approach using a total enclosure around the regulated coating operation.