Performance Evaluation of a Solid Sorbent Hydrocarbon Sampler

Résumé du livre

The solid sorbent sampler was originally developed to collect polycyclic organic materials (POMs) from gaseous power plant effluents. This project was undertaken to verify the sampler's collection efficiency and analytic performance for POMs and investigate its use for other vapor phase organic compounds under a variety of conditions. One set of experiments was carried out under conditions chosen to simulate a power plant stack. The variables studied were sampler temperature, organic compound level, and concentrations of sulfur dioxide, nitric oxide, and water vapor. A second set of experiments was run under conditions chosen to simulate ambient atmosphere conditions. The variables studied were sampler temperature, organic compound loading, and relative humidity.