Analysis of Air Toxic Compounds by Using Chromatography and Computer-Assisted FTIR Intelligent Method

In the Title Ⅲ of Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990,a list of 189 air toxic compounds were identified to be controlled from stationary source emissions,which means that US EPA must have the capability to quantitatively measure the emissions of these pollutants. FTIR is considered to have great potential in measurement emissions of substantial number of toxic organic air pollutants of interest to US EPA. However,not much of the FTIR work was conducted for stationary source emissions, and too little is known about its applicability and reliability for monitoring toxic air pollutant source emissions. US EPA needs a worldwide international cooperation to understand the advantages and disadvantages of FTIR and signed the cooperative agreement with us in 1994:Research on FTIR (Including its Utility) for Monitoring Toxic Air Pollutants in Stack Gas Emissions (Contract No.:CR822820-01).