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EVALUATION OF TOTAL ORGANIC EMISSIONS ANALYSIS METHODS
Citation:
Merrill, R. G. EVALUATION OF TOTAL ORGANIC EMISSIONS ANALYSIS METHODS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-04/144, 2004.
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to publish information
Description:
The rationale and supporting experimental data for revising EPA's 1996 "Guidance for Total Organics" are summarized in this document. It reports the results of reseach and investigation of improvements to the Total Organic Emissions (TOE) guidance used by EPA to measure recoverable organic material from stationary source emission samples in support of the Office of Solid Waste Risk Burn requirements. This document describes the purpose, experimental design and results from several related investigations into the performance of specific techniques to determine TOE. Results include analysis of recoverable organic material from three specific boiling point/vapor pressure classes: light hydrocarbons and volatile organics (field gas chromatograph and purge & trap gas chromatograph), semivolatile organics (TCO), and nonvolatile organic compounds (GRAV). Improved procedures for analysis of volatile organics, semivolatile organics and nonvolatile organic compounds are described. The experimental approach used to address weaknesses in TOE analysis procedures is discussed, and the effect of improvements to these measurement procedures is reported. The experimental results in this report support the sampling and analytical guidance necessary to characterize the full range of recoverable organic material encountered in source emissions.