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Abstract:
the Aerial Pollutant Emissions from Animal Confinement
Buildings (APECAB) project is currently planning to
continuously measure only PM10 using a Tapered Element
Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM) instrument equipped with
a PM10 inlet. While this is quite appropriate given
EPA’s regulations concerning PM10, TSP is important
because it provides additional particle size
information, and the larger particles carry odor, gases
and pathogens, and deteriorate equipment and property.
The APECAB project currently does not have resources to
conduct TSP measurements.
We
use National Center funds to conduct TSP measurements
with two complementary methods: 1) gravimetrical
integration of mean mass concentration of TSP over
regular time periods, and 2) continuous monitoring of
TSP using the TEOM to show instantaneous dynamic
behavior of TSP emissions.
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