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Main Title Preliminary Investigation of Uncombusted Auto Fuel Vapor Dispersion within a Residential Garage Microenvironment.
Author Lansari, A. ; Streicher, J. J. ; Huber, A. H. ; Crescenti, G. H. ; Zweidinger, R. B. ;
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Lab. ;ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC. ;National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Research Triangle Park, NC. Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Div.
Publisher 1993
Year Published 1993
Report Number EPA/600/A-93/123;
Stock Number PB93-204048
Additional Subjects Indoor air pollution ; Garages ; Gasoline vapors ; Unburned fuels ; Air pollution detection ; Fuel tank evaporation ; Motor vehicles ; Sulfur hexafluoride ; Isotopic markers ; Mass balance ; Field tests ; Air flow ;
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NTIS  PB93-204048 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Evaporative emissions from vehicles in an attached garage may represent a significant source of indoor pollution and human exposure. A pilot field study was undertaken to investigate potential in-house dispersion of evaporative emissions of uncombusted fuels from a vehicle parked inside an attached garage. In a set of experiments using sulfur hexafluoride tracer gas, the multizonal mass balance model, CONTAM88, was used to predict interzonal air flow rates and SF6 concentration distributions within the garage and house. Several experiments were included to evaluate the effect of meteorology and mechanical mixing mechanisms on the dispersion of automobile fuel vapor. Measurements indicated that approximately three percent of the garage maximum concentration was measured in a room adjacent to the garage. The model successfully predicted garage concentrations under well mixed conditions, but underpredicted the measured concentrations within various rooms of the house, in which mixing was incomplete. Multizonal mass balance models such as CONTAM88 may be useful in approximating contaminant concentrations at various locations within the house.