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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION (ETV) TEST OF DIOXIN EMISSION MONITORS
Citation:
LEE, C., D. G. TABOR, AND K. A. COWEN. ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION (ETV) TEST OF DIOXIN EMISSION MONITORS. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. Springer Japan KK, Tokyo, Japan, 10(1):38-45, (2008).
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Journal article
Description:
The performance of four dioxin emission monitors including two long-term sampling devices, the DMS (DioxinMonitoringSystem) and AMESA (Adsorption Method for Sampling Dioxins and Furans), and two semi-real-time continuous monitors, RIMMPA-TOFMS (Resonance Ionization with Multi-Mirror Photon Accumulation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer) and Jet-REMPI (Resonance Enhanced Multi-Photon Ionization) were tested. A package boiler firing a simulated chlorinated hazardous waste was used for a total of nine tests. Reference samples were collected during each test and analyzed for polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans (PCDDs/Fs) using EPA Method 23. The PCDD/F concentrations of the reference samples ranged from 0.9 to 6.0 ng toxic equivalence (TEQ)/dscm for these tests. The relative accuracies varied (22.6% to 78.2%) with 100% data completeness for all units except one, which produced no quantifiable results due to various difficulties associated with the instrument during testing. The two long-term samplers are easy to install and operate which provided a cumulative, averaged emission for the sampling period. The operations of the two semi-real-time continuous monitors are relatively complex, but one of them provided on-site, real-time PCDD/F emissions from measurement of TEQ correlative indicator compound(s). This paper summarized results from the individual ETV reports for the four dioxin monitors.
