Rs. Wright et al., EVALUATION OF A PORTABLE FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED GAS ANALYZER FOR MEASUREMENTS OF AIR TOXICS IN POLLUTION PREVENTION RESEARCH, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 48(11), 1998, pp. 1077-1084
A portable Fourier transform infrared gas analyzer with a photoacousti
c detector performed reliably during pollution prevention research at
two industrial facilities. It exhibited good agreement (within approxi
mately 6%) with other analytical instruments (dispersive infrared and
flame ionization) when analyte concentrations were high and relatively
steady. It did not show good agreement when analyte concentrations we
re low (approximately 10 parts per million [ppm]) or were varying rapi
dly (less than 1.5 min). The precision for total acetates measurements
was estimated to be approximately 40 ppm for measurements in the 0- t
o 700-ppm region. The precision for styrene measurements was estimated
to be approximately 10 ppm for measurements in the 0- to 90-ppm regio
n.